Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote: aphro wrote: i have a feeling corel will have a glibc2.1 update to their linux not long after potato is released ..very few will want to try to upgrade from corel to potato ..it would be too painful It wouldn't be, if corel hadn't done stupid

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Willer
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, P Asokan wrote: It appears to me dselect is more a sysadmin's install tool. Even Yast looks a little easier. for my $0.02 i would strongly suggest ywo install programs a simpleone with less choices and another for the more adventurous. It's an interesting thought. The

Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Keith Saxon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them from a DOS partion with dselect? I have no idea! I doubt that you would or could find any! If he's running a vfat system

Re: More xfstt help needed.

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Willer
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, James E. Starr wrote: Thanks for all the help given so far, however, after following all advise and puting FontPath unix/:7101 as the last line in my XF86Config file, I tried to run the test, as per the FAQ.gz. I got as far as xfstt but I received the error msg cannot

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Steve Willer
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You can't re-distribute dirivative works. That's key because an official Debian package would require a slightly modified binary in order to comply with the Debian filesystem guidelines. You can modify it for LOCAL USE, in which case you

Re: xdm question

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: I did a ctrl-alt-F1 and found xdm in /etc/init.d/. Is it okay to remove xdm from here without any adverse effects? Well, I did it anyway :) but I was just wondering if I should seek an alternative solution. man update-rc.d Better yet, dpkg

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Frederick Page wrote: It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was content about the way it handled email, but it sucked for news. And it did not have color, which is very helpful (for me). There is a patch available for Pine that gives it some