On 10/28/06, Tim Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:09 +0200, Bruno wrote:
However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if yum
is so far behind dpkg).
Bye,
Bruno
Fedora is an *experimental* operating system, etch is a *beta*. Neither
one
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
...
I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell
Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I
had to install different stuffs fglrx and ati as it was not able to do
3D.
But
Bruno wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
...
I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell
Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I
had to install different stuffs fglrx and ati as it was not able to do
3D.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:20:24AM +1100, M-L wrote:
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That doesn't mean its not an experimental OS :), and Wikipedia is a
cluster .. much different application and use of FC5.
Building a cluster is quite a bit different than installing an OS on
your laptop. FC5 has support for all kinds of file systems and
hardware .. but not yet tried / tested.
Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hummm...I'm not sure about this : in fact I just installed KUbuntu
6.06 on my laptop and found 'DRI enabled' (in Xorg.0.log) which should
confirm (correct me if I'm wrong) that 3d is available.
On my work machine, running debian unstable, it says the same thing,
On Sunday 29 October 2006 06:29, Karl Goetz wrote:
Bruno wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
...
I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob
(Dell Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600
for which I had to install
Bruno wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
...
I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell
Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I
had to install different stuffs fglrx and ati as it was not able to do
3D.
Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed I just grab a Ubuntu DVD (labelled 'Dapper-drake 6.06 LTS'
which looks very recent). Ubuntu is based and so I'll probably try it
as a replacement of etch.
Ubuntu Edgy Edge got releases on the 26th.
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On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:53 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
You are right. It is not. Nor are the w32codecs you need to watch video.
Nor are they included in any distro I know of due to legal reasons, by
default. This is not a Debian issue, it is a Linux/DRM/Copy right issue.
The w32codecs
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:53 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
You are right. It is not. Nor are the w32codecs you need to watch video.
Nor are they included in any distro I know of due to legal reasons, by
default. This is not a Debian issue, it is a Linux/DRM/Copy right
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop (previously had Fedora-5 on
it) just to try it and because I think is good and important to try other
Bruno wrote:
However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if yum
is so far behind dpkg).
Why switch off apt/dpkg if you think they are superior? There are Debian
based distributions which you could try first which attempt to address the
problems you're
Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop (previously had Fedora-5 on
it) just to try it and because I
Hello,
why did you not try first the current stable version of Debian ?
Cheers,
Jerome
Bruno wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop
Bruno wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop (previously had Fedora-5 on
it) just to try it and because I think is good and important
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:18:29PM +0100, steef wrote:
etch is a *testing* distro. why not try sarge (stable) first *before*
thinking of turning back to fedora?
He has modern hardware, or wants to run modern software?
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On 10/28/06 09:16, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:18:29PM +0100, steef wrote:
etch is a *testing* distro. why not try sarge (stable) first *before*
thinking of turning back to fedora?
He has modern hardware, or wants to run
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:09 +0200, Bruno wrote:
However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if yum
is so far behind dpkg).
Bye,
Bruno
Fedora is an *experimental* operating system, etch is a *beta*. Neither
one should be used in any kind of production setting,
On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote:
Bruno wrote:
However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if
yum is so far behind dpkg).
Why switch off apt/dpkg if you think they are superior? There are
Debian based distributions which you could try first
On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:48, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used
Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:42:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 10/28/06 09:16, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:18:29PM +0100, steef wrote:
etch is a *testing* distro. why not try sarge (stable) first *before*
thinking of
Bruno wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello,
why did you not try first the current stable version of Debian ?
Cheers,
Jerome
Bruno wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used
Debian for few months, I find honest to
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On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:42:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 10/28/06 09:16, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:18:29PM +0100, steef wrote:
etch is
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
It is not a living thing. Has it's
own purpose and fulfils it. Anyway,
linux is user friendly this days.
- as I installed etch around 50% of shutdowns never
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
Hmm. Why on earth would anyone use Linux, and not want to start flame
wars? That's part of the fun.
Hereafter main problems encountered (some
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:42, Bruno wrote:
Thanks I'll certainly re-try later Debian and etch.
Especially because I already put stikers 'Debian' on my laptop and would
not like to remove them ;-)
Bruno
Did Debian detect all the hardware on your laptop? The reason I removed
Debian
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:09, Bruno wrote:
Once again I do not want to start any flame here : indeed Debian is a
superb distro (packaging system is really superb) but, IMHO, dedicated to
'Linux techies' ?
However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if
yum is so
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:09:14PM +0200, Bruno wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop (previously had Fedora-5 on
it) just to
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:24, Zoran Kolic wrote:
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used
Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
It is not a living thing. Has it's
own purpose and fulfils it. Anyway,
linux is user friendly this
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:50, Pollywog wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:42, Bruno wrote:
Thanks I'll certainly re-try later Debian and etch.
Especially because I already put stikers 'Debian' on my laptop and would
not like to remove them ;-)
Bruno
Did Debian detect all the
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:24, Douglas Tutty wrote:
I'm assuming you tried Etch because your hardware was too new to install
Sarge (the current stable). It is frustrating to have new hardware and
no stable distro to install on it. Fortunatly, I find myself in that
predicament only
On Sunday 29 October 2006 07:18, steef wrote:
Bruno wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used
Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop (previously had Fedora-5
on it)
On 2006-10-28 23:09:18 +0800, Tim Post wrote:
If you want to tinker, check out www.backports.org , and sit down for an
evening to install Sarge and then pick and choose what you need.
Sarge can't be installed directly on recent machines, because the
kernel it provides doesn't recognize SATA
On Saturday 28 October 2006 23:09, Bruno shared this with us all:
-- Hello,
--
-- I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used
Debian -- for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
--
-- So few months ago, I installed etch on my laptop (previously had
Bruno wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:50, Pollywog wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:42, Bruno wrote:
Thanks I'll certainly re-try later Debian and etch.
Especially because I already put stikers 'Debian' on my laptop and would
not like to remove them ;-)
Bruno
Did
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
No, you are right, but as far as I know, it is NOT included by default
in any Linux. Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have
tried.
Mepis? One of my on-again-off-again projects is to drop Windows for my
gaming platform. Switching to OSX is one
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:39, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello,
I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I
used Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving
it.
Hmm. Why on earth would anyone use Linux, and not want to start
flame wars? That's
Steve Lamb wrote:
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
No, you are right, but as far as I know, it is NOT included by default
in any Linux. Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have
tried.
Mepis? One of my on-again-off-again projects is to drop Windows for my
gaming platform.
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