-t unstable x-
windows-sytem). YMMV
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I hope this is the right forum for this...
Send a message to the debian-legal list.
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to be as specific as possible about my usage.
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XFT does a lot for making fonts easy.
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Sanjay Chigurupati Sanjay.Chigurupati at lntinfotech.com writes:
Please help me configure my deskjet 600c, I keep finding lists every
like here
Have you tried the following HOW-TO to ensure you've got all the necessary
components?
http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html
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Krikket krikket at gothpoodle.com writes:
LibraNet looks good, but I don't want to pony up some cash until I know
which branch it's based on. Similar difficulties with Mepis and Xandros.
The maintainers of LibraNet recently created their own repository of Debian
packages. They mix
the proprietary ones from the nVidia website (they install with a
quick install script). Mine was $70 from NewEgg.com, I believe.
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What would people recommend I start with (assume I'm a complete novice) that
O'Reilly's _Running Linux_ got me started. There's lots of Debian-specific
information within as well. I still refer to it now and then.
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this. Sound, network, etc were all
there without me having to figure out which modules
If I'm working on unfamiliar equipment, I usually slap in a G/Knoppix LiveCD and
make note of the output from `lspci`, `lsmod`, etc., making Debian installation
a snap.
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the frustrating art
of gaming under Linux. I'm glad to see a trend toward multi-platform releases,
though. For example, the next version of Unreal will be released for Windows,
Linux, and Mac...
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Under the 2.6.x kernel, is it advisable to just create a swap file (via dd)
rather than using an actual partition, perhaps with swapd to keep things safe?
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Jens Simmoleit simmel at anymotion.de writes:
Does somebody know a really good Howto, which explains how
to compile a kernel step by step?
Yes, check the Kernel Compiling How-to at the Newbiedoc project:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net
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. Perhaps contact
some of those companies. They'd most likely have up-to-date info on
Debian-supported hardware.
Good luck!
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-rpm fan.
6. Get yourself a solid case. Lian-Li makes some of the best. Mine is quite
nice, a quiet model with a closing front door that hides my ugly, mismatched
bay drives: http://store.yahoo.com/directron/pc6070.html
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system with enough memory to ensure that the swap isn't used extensively?
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I'm trying to upgrade from the 2.4.18 kernel that installs with the
bf24 flavor to hopefully a 2.6.1 kernel but at the very least, a
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
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brfg3 at yahoo brfg3 at yahoo.com writes:
Is there someway to install a 2.4.18 kernel while installing from the cd, and
maybe avoidthis hassle?TIA !
Boot from the install CD and read the Help; you'll see how to install a 2.4.18
kernel from the get-go.
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Monique Y. Herman spam at bounceswoosh.org writes:
Why not just call it bleeding-edge?
That would be pulling stuff from Experimental :)
I still think Unstable is quite stable, with only a small amount of diligence.
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add features. Their goal is still to
create a power user's browser. There's a good interview with the
developers here (about 7 months old):
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/links/interview_2003-07.php
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here has used them. thanks
P.S. No, I do not work for them!
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Rick Weinbender rwein at central-ph.k12.mo.us writes:
to kill a process by name?
man killall
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Jaume Alonso schall at wanadoo.es writes:
I'm a newbie in debian. I'm currently using Sarge. When will I be able
to install the new GNOME 2.4??
This has been discussed several times in the past 48 hours.
Check the archives...
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http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianGnome
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new ADSL installations are of the PPPoE breed. If their information
is accurate (http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1416), that truly stinks.
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I'm in the market for a new video card, so I'm fishing for suggestions. I will
mostly be working in 2D apps (mainly internet, office apps). I do *not* intend
to play any taxing 3D games such as Quake or Counter-Strike; however, I would
like to do some video editing (transferring home movies to
# apt-get install msttcorefonts
-Roberto
Make sure you have `contrib` in your sources.list file.
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I can't guarantee its accuracy!
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A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I
suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment,
but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x.
My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports of
Gnome2.4, Mozilla, Pan, and other of his assorted
Does Synaptic's ability to remove including any orphaned dependencies
do as good a job as the inate abilities of aptitude?
I've recently abandoned apt in favor of aptitude for its ability to
track and automatically remove unneeded dependencies. However, I really
like Synaptic, but want to be
To install Gnome under Sid, is it recommended to simply do:
apt(titude)-get install gnome-desktop-environment
Or is it better to install things piecemeal:
apt(titude)-get install gnome-core gdm etc.
Thanks for any suggestions
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If I wish to make a bzipped tar archive of all my user's files in the
/home tree, in addition to preserving permissions, access times, and
ownership, would the following be appropriate?
tar cjpf backup.tar.bz2 /home --atime-preserve --same-owner
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I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get
for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the
features, like the ability to do a --with-suggests, quite useful. It
seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well.
Are there any
Out of personal curiosity, I will be conducting an experiment this
weekend that may perhaps turn into a larger project.
My very cooperative wife will be attempting to install Windows XP
Professional and then Debian Woody--both from scratch--on one of our
home computers.
The impetus for this
Don Werve [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
For those wealthy enough to attend college, many
will attain near-useless English and Liberal Arts degrees, because they
lack the impetus, drive, and determination to pursue a more difficult
degree.
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which means that university
Quoting Tim Folger:
Are there some other parameters or commands I need to enable internet
access for my wireless network?
Thanks in advance.
Tim
I never messed with *any* config files to get my Orinoco Gold-based Dell
Truemobile 1150 Wireless PCMCIA card. I simply activated the Hermes
chipset
is easily cracked, but I would still
like that false sense of security!
Thanks much to the debian-user archives for many bits of knowledge!!!
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For some apocryphal reason I think I need it for fluxbox to be pretty.
But I might need to rexamine my assumptions :-)
Or perhaps I'm getting confused when I messed around with xterm's XFT
ability.
Depends on what version of fluxbox you're using. Version
Quoting David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
My guess is that you wind up doing the scrolling operation all in
software with the nv driver, which is why you get that much CPU
usage. I'd guess that switching to the (non-free) NVidia driver would
in fact help you get around this problem. There's
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
the list a couple of times. It's available from
http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt and is reproduced below so
people can criticies it more easily :)
By jove, you've got it!!!
Quoting Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I think restricting the focus to stable, or just certain
aspects of it, is a bit limiting, but it's your call.
I'm the rare breed that actually runs Stable on my production, every-day-use
desktop. I'm not a programmer, and I do very little
, but would using
the proprietary nVidia drivers make much difference for simple 2D use? Would
recompiling my kernel to better suit my platform make a significant difference?
Thanks for any hints!
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Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they
look like this
FontPath
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I found a good instruction article on the internet.
Care to share the location? I'm sure others could benefit! thanks much
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on fontography.
Let me know what you think.
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As an addition, note that this guide will cover only the X core font system.
AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), fontconfig is not available under Stable,
which rules out a discussion of Xft at this time...
I'm pledging to keep the guide up-to-date, so at some point it will cover the
transition
in about 10 seconds:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Automount.html
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to the author):
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/0223205mode=threadtid=106tid=185tid=90
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A user needs the admin password like nitroglycerine needs a good
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Does anyone know if there is a deb of openbox3?
I don't believe so. It was just released as source on 29 June...doubt anyone
has created a .deb package yet. I'm excited to try it, though; supposedly
version 3 is written from scratch.
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Hello,
Is there anybody who can tell me if it's possible to install
XFree86 version 4.3? If so: how? :-)
By Googling ;)
First result from search on xfree 4.3 debian
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/print17614.html
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, eg. from Adrian Bunk:
deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
For more apt-Sources, visit http://www.apt-get.org;
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this message, thanks for any ideas!
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built for the 'stable' version of Debian, please make
yourself known.
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by a specific process is 516740? Thanks
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On June 22, 2003 04:00 pm, Brian McGroarty wrote:
vrms (99.5%) keeps me warm at night. :-(
Root mean square voltage?
damn I've been doing too many engr labs.. :P
~leo
vrms = Virtual Richard M. Stallman -- it's a package that checks the number
the need to run a
bloated desktop environment simply because my hardware can handle it.
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On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 21:50, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
I have been using Debian for about 18 months now.
I like it and prefer it to other dristos I have tried.
Today I had to install Redhat 9 on a system.
It detected everything. A totally good
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Quoting Vivek Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi guys,
Any recommendation for email anti-virus software ??
Thanks a bunch for your help..
amavisd-new and ClamAV (free in both senses) and H+BEDV's AntiVir and
F-Prot (both zero cost for
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How do I controle it the way program or script will startup at boot every
time
after a reboot or powerfailure
Ingirafn
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On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:57, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Hello All,
I recently picked up a second-hand laptop (IBM Thinkpad 570). I installed
Woody
per the usual and found that APM seemed to work fine for putting the laptop
to
sleep. However
on its own).
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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the
eight-month gap in font coverage in those older how-tos.
Thanks to any and all help!!!
Sincerely,
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Well, I picked up a card for free from a friend. It is the following,
and I cannot get it to work under Woody:
Compaq Netelligent 10/100 PC Card P/N: 335507-001
I did some searching and found several posts that said these cards are
actually Thunder LAN cards, but trying to install the tlan.o
, 2003 9:15 AM
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Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
move up to the Testing level to simply change my sources.list to
point
know! Thanks!
Newbfully,
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I don't speak German, but I understand your question because I'm getting
the same error messages! As a newbie, I have no idea what's causing
them or how to fix them...
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