The poor quality of documentation, such as these how tos is one of the
reasons why I recommend when ever I am asked whether a site should move
to linux to recommend that they don't.
Although I didn't agree with the tone of this message, I definitely think
something
needs to be done about
Hi everyone,
I found a Wired article with a link to this Microsoft document,
titled Linux Myths:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp
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Hello,
For some odd reason, mail I'm sending to this list is taking
a long time to arrive back in my mailbox. One of the messages
was sent at about 10pm last night and it arrived at 5pm today.
That's a 21-hour time lag! I've heard of 3-5 hours, but not 21.
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Is there any particular reason why the Debian and/or KDE mirror sites
don't offer the apt sources? Getting at least half of the KDE mirrors out
there to mirror the apt sources would be heaven. Gnome has a buttload
of apt sources, why can't KDE?
Debian folk have determined that the QT
kde.tdyc.com is looking for a home and it is currently distributing only
the bare minimum for kde. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the actual
kde.tdyc.com administrator.
Is there any particular reason why the Debian and/or KDE mirror sites
don't offer the apt sources? Getting at least half of the KDE
download and run Solaris on my own system, make as many modifications as I
like,
as long as I don't re-distribute the changes. Sun is only trying to protect
it's
Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap and
they
are only hoping to capitalize on the
As for the version, i'd go with the latest stable (2.2.12, unless they
released 2.2.13 just today). There's even a brand new Debian package so
you won't have to compile your own if you don't want.
Where would I be able to find that package?
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I cannot give you any other suggestions ATM, because you haven't deigned
to list /any/ of your hardware. Since this seems to be a hardware-related
problem, the idea that anyone could solve it for you w/o hardware specicfic
information is ludicrous.
All you had to do was ask, then. Some of you
OK, but for me it remains the only convincing test.
As it happens I have a couple of old pentium 75 motherboards at home and
I just imagined that maybe you or somebody you knew also had stuff like
that that you could use for a test, temporarily.
The other motherboard I have is from an old 486
That's *usually*ยน a sign that your hard disk is about to die on you. Do a
backup, buy a new drive, and copy the stuff over to that one.
Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since
the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to
run a check
Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since
the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to
run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive
itself is the problem?
The surest test would be to use it with
Hi,
I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel
monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should?
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Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only
data I'm given is These things cost money. Give us something to work
with.
Well buy something else isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem
either. I cited two error messages and asked what they could be caused
by.
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists stable/non-US/binary-i386/
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free
Hmm...
Where can I find the rescue and other disk images for Debian with
the newer kernels? When I went to the potato directory and got them
from there, the kernel was 2.0.x. Isn't it up to 2.1.x or 2.2.x now?
There are debian images by CapTech including newer kernels at:
Hello,
I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am
running into some error messages:
hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
They show up randomly. Sometimes while I do apt-get or run some
other
Hello,
Where can I find the rescue and other disk images for Debian with
the newer kernels? When I went to the potato directory and got them
from there, the kernel was 2.0.x. Isn't it up to 2.1.x or 2.2.x now?
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KDE TDYC is currently restructured (check kde-debian mail archive at
kde.tdyc.com). Network traffic/load was too high. Hopefully the
transition will be finished RSN (tm). After that there should be
sources available again (but there will be no sources for kde2 until
it reaches beta status).
try mounting our /usr partition - some editor should be there...
Yep, that's exactly what I did. Noticed /usr wasn't mounted so I mounted
it and was able to use an editor. Everything is fine now. Thanks everyone.
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There is a mirror in Germany
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty kde2
or
deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty kde2
These look like the same site I already have. What are these mirroring?
BTW, I *didn't* just ask about TDYC. It was more
I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use
7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?.
7 or 9 disks?!? I just downloaded the files for the base installation to my
harddrive and used my *1* rescue disk that I created from an image to
kick-start
Hello everyone,
I wanted to move /var to another partition since it kept on
filling up, but I accidentally forgot to make its partition a
Linux one and now Linux won't start. When I boot it, it
asks me for my root password for maintenance or press
Crtl+D to continue booting. If I put in the
Hello,
I was wondering if there are any Debian users here who use
ICQ and wouldn't mind me asking them questions if I had
problems. My ICQ number is 4982727 . Feel free to add me
to your list if you wouldn't mind. Thanks. : )
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Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell)
You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you should
do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually from
here:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html
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You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you
should
do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually from
here:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html
no, no, no
I'm outside US (Poland) and apt-get install ssh works just
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone here has tried KDE 2.0. If so, how
stable was it? Especially compared to Windows9x?
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How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM?
Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt
installed xdm. :(.
If you're using KDE, all you have to do is make an icon to the program and
put it into the Autostart folder.
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Hello,
From Win98 with Partition Magic, I have resized my partition and
made room for a partition I'll use for /var . In Red Hat, I had the option
to use Disk Druid, format the partitions I wanted as Linux partitions,
and set their mount points. I'm having trouble finding Disk Druid for
Debian. I
Hello,
I have a Logitech Trackman MarbleFX trackball and I was wondering
if it's possible in Linux to configure one of the extra buttons (there
are four) to do double-clicking.
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try and decide for yourself. I use Debian because its so easy to keep it
stable, because I think apt-get is way way easier than rpm and because the
support offered by this list is great.
I agree with the former two reasons, but from my experiences, Red Hat's
list was much better. Not to put
Hello,
I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card and am looking for
pointers on what I need to do to set it up on Debian Linux. What
programs would I need? I have the latest KDE version (1.1.1 I
believe) with the various programs for playing multimedia files,
but don't have my soundcard configured
Hello,
On Windows98, I'm able to use my MAG DJ700 monitor with
my Diamond 3D Stealth 2000 card at 1024x768 and 24-bit colors
without a problem. Whenever I've tried to set that up with
XFree86, it always turns off the 1024x768 option for 24-bit color,
so the highest color depth I'm able to use
G200 8MB AGP, works great. I show XFree86 version 3.3.3.1 having
support for G400 16MB video. I'd guess it also works well.
Does the amount of MB part make a difference? I was thinking about
a G400 32MB.
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If you are interested in the Matrox G400, maybe you'll like one of the
boards with the TNT2 chipset from Nvidia. One friend of mine just got a
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra (It costs the same as the Matrox G400), and It runs
fine in X using the Xserver downloaded from the Nvidia site. Nvidia gave
Hi Everyone,
I've setup Mozilla Milestone 8 on my Debian system, but when you
resize a window or load a site, it's just way too slow. Unusably slow.
When I tried Milestone 9 and Milestone 8 in Windows98, it was
fairly quick and totally useable. Has anyone else noticed these
differences? Is there
This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any
suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my old Win98
box, but I keep it around for just that one thing. Please keep me CC'd, as I
don't subscribe to this list. Thanks.
A great site on various ICQs for
Hi,
I'd like to get a new graphics card and was wondering how well
the Matrox G400 is supported on Linux.
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I know it's because the file is in pc binary instead of true ascii (despite
being saved as a text file). My question is this, is there any way I can
convert the file to true ascii while it's still on my pc then copy it to
floppy then copy it to linux, without the need to ftp the file between
Hello,
Last night, KDE crashed on me and ever since then, it won't load.
When I do startx -- -bpp 16, all I get is that checker/basket pattern
with the 'X' cursor and nothing loads. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, this
gets repeated over and over until I press Ctrl+Z:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't
I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now.
When I did an apt-get update with that added, it wasn't able to
connect to the server. I hope the site will be back up soon because
Gnome has given me problems and is doing the same right now.
I've never had a single problem with KDE.
Does anyone
I run Window Maker, and I always have. My dad (who alo uses this machine)
uses KDE,
due to it's simplicity and user friendly interface. Even he has no problems.
I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem.
I've found several problems with Netscape and all of them
Hi,
I was wondering if there's a way to apt-get KDE. I'm having
trouble finding that.
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Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list (or replace slink with
potato if that's what your using):
deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty
When I did that and ran apt-get update, it couldn't connect to that
server. Are there any other apt sources I can use? Also, how come
Hello,
I'm trying to install Debian Linux as per the instructions for installing
from a DOS partition at:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-from-dos
My problem is that the installation seems to go through, it finds my
harddrives, CD-ROM drives, etc.,
(I tried sending this to the list before, but I didn't get any responses to
I'm not sure if it arrived. I've also updated some things in the message.)
Hello,
I'm trying to install Debian Linux as per the instructions for installing
from a DOS partition at:
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