RE: newsgroup, instead of mail list?
-Original Message- From: Gregory Guthrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown Subject: newsgroup, instead of mail list? Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a newsgroup more convenient. FWIW, I'd like a newsgroup, as well. I'm new to Debian, and I find this list very helpful. It's also very high-traffic, and if I have to be away from my email for a few days (*gasp*!), I'm not sure I'll ever be able to catch up! A newsgroup would facilitate finding threads I can learn from /or contribute to. $0.02 *cha-ching*! Chris *** Christopher L. GoetzkeIntegration Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Control Data Systems If you bring forth that which is within you, that which you bring forth shall save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which you do not bring forth shall destroy you. -Y'shua, _Gospel of Thomas_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newsgroup, instead of mail list?
-Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM To: Gregory Guthrie Cc: recipient list not shown Subject: Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list? Many people DO read debian-user by newsreader. As a matter of fact, there is more traffic in the Usenet version because posts are not gatewayed back to the mailing list. Look for linux.debian.user on a news server near you. Well, that's what I get for being too quick on the reply key! My local news server does indeed have linux.debian.user; I'm headed that way now. Those of you staying email can argue about whether you want posts gatewayed back to the list. ;-) Chris Goetzke *** Christopher L. GoetzkeIntegration Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Control Data Systems If you bring forth that which is within you, that which you bring forth shall save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which you do not bring forth shall destroy you. -Y'shua, _Gospel of Thomas_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps)
-Original Message- From: Ulisses Alonso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 6:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown Subject: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps) Hi all, using http to a remote host works ok, but telneting to the same host is horrible slow and not quite interactive friendly Some of my co-workers have had good luck using ssh with maximum compression over a dial-up link instead of telnet. I don't know if that's possible for you, but it's something to consider. Although there is probably a more fundamental problem that should be addressed. Chris *** Christopher L. GoetzkeIntegration Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Control Data Systems If you bring forth that which is within you, that which you bring forth shall save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which you do not bring forth shall destroy you. -Y'shua, _Gospel of Thomas_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: X windows, Dselect, and then some...
-Original Message- From: Athas Nikolakakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 5:23 PM To: Debian User LS Cc: recipient list not shown Subject: X windows, Dselect, and then some... (1) What is the graphical configuration utility for Xfree86 called ( and where is it)? It's XF86Setup. I don't recall where it lives offhand (and my computer is in an odd state at the moment, needing re-installs of the MS OSs on my tri-boot 95/NT/Linux machine; anyway, I can't get to my Linux partitions right now [under NT]). XF86Setup is in root's path on my system, and I don't think I've modified said path. (3) Is there a program that will compare packages installed on my system to current packages on the FTP site and suggest / download all upgrades? As has been mentioned, dselect can do this. Yell if you have problems. (4) In dselect I accidentally told it to re-download a file which was already on my system. However the file is 17 megs, and I don't want to download it. Everytime I try to download un-related packages it insists on asking me if I want to resume it, then does it any way. You could fire up dselect make the offending package on hold, which is the character =. When/if a new version comes out, mark it back as install (*). Chris *** Christopher L. GoetzkeIntegration Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Control Data Systems If you bring forth that which is within you, that which you bring forth shall save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which you do not bring forth shall destroy you. -Y'shua, _Gospel of Thomas_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to upgrade ?
-Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 7:47 PM To: Tony Schonfeld Cc: recipient list not shown Subject: Re: How to upgrade ? On Tue, 19 May 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: Sorry for this basic question, but to upgrade a package it's simple necessary to use Dselect , but when i want upgrade a distribution by example debian 1.3 to 2.0 the Base packages are automaticaly upgrade without reboot with deselect or what is a method ??? All right, total Debian newbie question. Is 2.0 out? Is it available at ftp.debian.org? I'm pretty sure it's not what I'm seeing using dselect to for the default stable non-free contrib sections. If you are comfortable manually ftping packages and installing them manually with dpkg -i then you can probably get away with this: What does this do to dselect? I assume it's non-harmful, since dselect is just a front-end to dpkg (it is, isn't it)? get the following packages and install them in the order given: libc5 ldso libc6 ncurses3.0 ncurses3.4 libreadline libreadlineg bash libg++ dpkg dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp libgdbm1 libgdbmg1 When I go fishing into hamm for libc6, it says it conflicts with libc5 (which, of course, is on my system), so it won't install. And libc5 is kinda important, so I don't want to go ripping it out, right? So how do I upgrade? Is there some magic version of that ldso that lets libc6 slide in next to libc5? Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? Great .sig! Thanks in advance. Chris *** Christopher L. GoetzkeIntegration Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Control Data Systems If you bring forth that which is within you, that which you bring forth shall save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which you do not bring forth shall destroy you. -Y'shua, _Gospel of Thomas_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
