I appreciate the fine quality of the debian distribution and the work
that goes into it. Thanks very much! It is my preferred linux
distribution. However, I have three systems that are at slink level,
and have been waiting for a long time for a 2.2.* kernel, gnome
(available outside official
After Potato, *please* limit the scope of the feature changes that
will take place before a new release. A 3-4 month cycle seems more
appropriate to this kind of development. Make your goals more modest!
Debian is already the best linux distro I have seen, with the only
drawback that is is
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:47:10PM -0500, Tim Webster wrote:
I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely
out date.
In what way?
The software in it is old, although not too old. Does it still work?
My slink systems still run happily.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt
What packages are you referring to that are outdated? XF86 is, so compile
your own(i have been for ages), kde,gnome ..so compile yer own..again ive
done this too..makes my slink system quite happy.
ive already decided im NOT going to upgrade any debian systems from slink
to potato that are not
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 05:01:53PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote
George Bonser wrote:
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote:
I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown
extremely out date.
However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me
Jesse writes:
What I'd really like to see is more frequent incremental releases of
Stable, bug/security fixes and updates only. Say once each month.
I'd like to see the package-pool system implemented.
Encourage developers to maintain Stable versions of their packages as
long as possible,
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Noah L. Meyerhans writes:
You know, you had merely to ask on the list about making your
installation of debian less out-dated.
I believe he made it quite clear that he can't get past the Debian spam
filters.
apt-get dist-upgrade
Over a 28.8
Fabien Ninoles writes:
That's why I download by night [which cost nothing here].
We have only one phone line, which I cannot tie up for hours at a time,
even at night.
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John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will.
I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely out
date.
However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to drop
debian.
The debian mailing list spam check prevents me from sending mail from my home
machine. I am forced to shell into my email
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
You know, you had merely to ask on the list about making your installation
of debian less out-dated. We would have told you the following:
Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable updates
deb
Noah L. Meyerhans writes:
You know, you had merely to ask on the list about making your
installation of debian less out-dated.
I believe he made it quite clear that he can't get past the Debian spam
filters.
apt-get dist-upgrade
Over a 28.8 dialup? ROTFL.
simply add deb
George Bonser wrote:
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote:
I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely
out date.
However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to drop
debian.
Huh? I have not used stable Debian in a
Matthew Dalton wrote:
The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is
that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to
download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade
their systems to the latest stuff.
It seems that
George Bonser wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote:
The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is
that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to
download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade
their
Godric wrote:
Matthew Dalton wrote:
The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is
that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to
download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade
their systems to the latest stuff.
Neo-fandangled-SuperVision2000 video card which is not supported in
Debian Slink, so they opt to use RedHat 6.1 instead. This kind of thing
is increasinly giving the public the impression that Linux is indeed
forking and that RedHat is better because it supports more hardware
than Debian.
IMHO using linux gives you the opportunity to update only if you do want
it. I am running hamm at home, slink in the office, and I am content with
them. You can have the lates packages one-by one, but I guess it is very
rare when you are forced really to upgrade.
BTW people with slow TCP/IP
I would argue that you CAN upgrade Debian from CD, it's just not as simple
as the installation for Slink. In fact, my procedure involves Slink itself.
1) Install Debian Slink from floppy or CD.
Do not use the computer type templates or dselect to choose your
packages. Instead,
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote:
George Bonser wrote:
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote:
I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown
extremely out date.
However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to
drop
On 11/15/99, John Hasler scribbled about Re: New release over due:
We are required to build and test our packages for unstable.
However, it is a myth that you must upgrade to unstable before installing
any packages anything from unstable.
I'm not opposed to running stable --- I'm doing
Godric wrote:
This IMHO is problem of marketing Debs - of people like us who support
Debs making the public aware of just how good Debs is and how easy to
upgrade.
The point is that people do realise that it is easy, but they're still
not ready to give up their redhat et al because a CD is
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