Yesterday, Charles Farinella gleaned this insight:
I need a new soundcard.
These are my requirements:
1: It must play sounds from both speakers.
2: It must fit in an ISA slot.
3: It must work in Linux.
Does anyone have a recommendation?
Depends what you want. If you
I personally prefer SuSE. Caldera is good for the first time newbie, but
lacks many things, such as emacs. SuSE installs are slower than Red Hat
partially because SuSE contains more packages. (6 CDs in all).
tom r wrote:
I'm thinking of replacing my Red Hat with Caldera just because Redhat
Change that to almost everyone. Debian still uses the Debian Package
Manager (dpkg). Debian does support RPM, but their packages and
installations use the debian packages.
And not just Debian. Debian-based distributions (e.g. Storm Linux and
Corel) use the *.deb file format too. In
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
Benjamin Scott wrote:
[ Self-Appointed Net Cop Mode = On ]
Okay, folks. Reply-To Munging has been switched off and it is
going to stay that way.
Unless it comes up again and another vote reverses it.
If you didn't get your
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
In terms of sheer number of software packages, the ~4500 packages of
Debian's soon-to-be-released "potato" version dwarfs the size of Red Hat.
I believe Red Hat has stated that they want to keep their base distribution
small enough to fit on a single
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 26 12:35:31 2000
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:16:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: compiling problems
Hi, after reinstalling my whole system, and the 10 hours of problems that
entailed (we won't go into that) I'm finally
Quoting tom r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Folks,
If you reply to the list, you don't really need to copy me also. So far
three
people have sent helpful suggestions and I've received two copies of each.
I'd also be VERY happy to accept private email and then inform the list of
just
the interesting
And, as one who's been following the LSB on lsb-discuss, it looks like
the LSB requirement will be to handle RPM formats, although the method
is not specified (i.e. using rpm or alien to convert debs).
jeff smith
Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
In terms of
OK, looking for some help. I have the Linuxmall (cheap) version of
RH6.1 for Alpha that I'm installing on a "noname" (axpci33) system,
with the following configuration:
IDE CDROM
IDE hard drive (10GB, unformatted currently)
SRM Version X4.1-1955 Jun 13 1995 06:33:10
Devices (from show device
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Chris Bourassa wrote:
The first time I tried it, it gave me a RAM disk error on track 0 ...
Sounds like either bad media or bad hardware. Are you booting from floppy?
Floppy diskettes are notoriously unreliable. Try creating a new boot floppy
from fresh media (there
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
Yesterday, Charles Farinella gleaned this insight:
I need a new soundcard.
These are my requirements:
1: It must play sounds from both speakers.
2: It must fit in an ISA slot.
3: It must work in Linux.
Does anyone have a
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
After asking about language keyboard, it asks for the type of CD-ROM,
with two choices: "SCIS" and "Other". Regardless of which I choose, I
get a blank list of choices, and choosing "OK" drops me back to the CD-ROM
choice menu.
That really seems
Adam Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well I think that I'm (for lack of a better term) fscked. I don't
have the partition table information on hand and I don't think I can
pull it out of my head. Any other ideas? If not just tell me I'm
fscked and I'll deal with reinstalling (wont be the end of
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
After asking about language keyboard, it asks for the type of CD-ROM,
with two choices: "SCIS" and "Other". Regardless of which I choose, I
get a blank list of choices, and choosing "OK" drops me back
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
... Use dd to copy the data from your old disk (the raw device) to one or
more big files on the new disk. ... Then use grep, string, and other
Unix tools to find the useful parts of the data.
Ugh. That's data recovery the hard way. I've
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