I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a model that came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade XP Ail graphics adapter.
I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the following conclusions:
* XFree86 (hereafter referred to as simply X)
In a message dated 5/21/99 8:57:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the
Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME?
Debian doesn't lean toward either of them - in fact, it is staying
In a message dated 5/21/99 12:04:17 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it
says can't load library libXmp.so.4, which seems to be a symlink to
libXmp.so.10. Would appreciate any help. Thanks!
You
In a message dated 5/21/99 3:13:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports
GNOME).
this might be true to a degree, but it is a gross overstatement to say
that GNOME requires one to use Enlightenment.
In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about x-isp or kppp (for KDE users)? If you use x-isp (you can search
xisp on Yahoo for the URL) you will first need to install xforms.
I might have the URL for x-isp. I will send it to you if I
While I don't connect to AOL directly - I go thru my ISP - this is basically
what I do when I need a connection.
-Jay
In a message dated 5/14/99 9:43:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really only have 1 complaint and thats that I simply can not figure out
how to use rxvts in KDE. While I can open them they are always off to the
top/left hand side of the screen and pushed off
In a message dated 5/12/99 12:00:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wordperfect runs, but the pictures and banners and icons are all scrambled.
When it is starting up the banner that is supposed to have a pen on it and
say Wordperfect is just a scrambled mess of
In a message dated 5/12/99 11:19:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i'm still getting that mysterious error message in my xsession-errors files:
Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt
I know this isn't a solution - but I' ve been getting that message for what
Are you running in 24bpp mode? Netscape and WP don't seem to support 24bpp -
try 32 or 16.
-Jay
In a message dated 5/7/99 8:08:40 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can
make
some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't
X
just set the values for you?
No idea why it
In a message dated 5/6/99 7:06:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No valid modes comes from the fact that resolutions and bpp you want the X
to run at do not match your system's capabilities.
So, here's a question for someone that wants to take a stab at it...
If X
In a message dated 5/4/99 8:16:11 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone ever encountered the trouble with Kernel-package that does not
make the symbolic link in /usr/src/linux? This seems to be my trouble. I
have the source tarballs in /usr/src but no
Check the archives for a post from me on the start-kdm line - I uploaded a
version of the startup files that allows the start-kdm or start-xdm line to
be places in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options.
-Jay
You probably have the libc6 version of xpm - you'll need to get the libc5
version.
-Jay
In a message dated 5/5/99 10:56:53 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find
the
answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free
disk
space, just type dir and the amount of free
In a message dated 5/5/99 12:23:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From what I understand, I am supose to be able to get help on the Debian
system
but every time I have tried, I get a search box and I get nothing replying
to
any search command that I give it. What
In a message dated 4/30/99 4:46:11 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since I installed X on my slink dist, xdm starts automaticly when I boot my
computer. Normally, this is no problem, but in some circumstances I would
like to quit X (ie to rebuild the kernel).
My
For those interested, this came over the KDE list today - it's yet another
O'Reilly Associates book - this one on programming with the QT libraries...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prowqt/
Programming with Qt
By Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
1st Edition April 1999
In a message dated 4/30/99 8:03:30 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I think there is a better way but I don't have a debian system now
so
the file names can changed.
In the /etc/X11 directory, in a file named config, you have the line xdm-
start or start-xdm.
In a message dated 4/29/99 12:06:22 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The best solution I've found:
Create an applink in Desktop/Autostart (i.e. New-Application). In the
Execute line put
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
and another one for .xinitrc. By the way, xrdb -merge
In a message dated 4/28/99 11:34:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not a Bad Idea (tm) but I dont use xdm. kdm has a button Shutdown
which kinda makes it easy.
I do like the shutdown button of KDE - but it would be more useful if you
didn't have to log out
In a message dated 4/28/99 10:25:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the
partition table.
Could someone give an opinion on turning on Antivirus feature in the
motherboard BIOS? I recall hearing once
In a message dated 4/27/99 3:36:20 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What does the 2 and 1 stand for, and the ?
One is standard output, right?
21 is the Linux was of saying - send all the standard output (1) and error
msgs (2) to a file. The is necessary
In a message dated 4/27/99 11:02:19 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following
error:
can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
I have tried to find a library with such name, but I could not find it.
I'm curious about virii and Linux...
Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii (I don't even know if
virii is a word - but it just sounds cool :) ? Obviously the security
features of Linux can prevent some virii from affecting certain files on your
system... but what about the
Three whips of the noodle for Sami for attempting to start the KDE/Gnome
flame war again. :)
I think a better approach would be to make it either non-X related, or make
it xlothar - so there remains a choice in desktop environments while still
being able to use this great functionality.
In a message dated 4/22/99 11:28:13 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3 I don't want to excute xdm at the boot. When I check my /etc/X11/config,
it said no-start-xdm. I don't know how to boot to text start. I have
installed hamm, and upgrade to slink. After I upgrade to
In a message dated 4/23/99 8:13:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No matter what signals I sent to 362 and 363, I couldn't change
anything. I tried kill and killall. I had to reboot because I felt
sorry for my poor overworked overclocked Celeron. :)
So, what do you
In a message dated 4/22/99 12:26:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in
/usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root
and
it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither.
In a message dated 4/22/99 12:34:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks. I am still kind of a newbie at this. Words like binary and
compile the kernel and other threatening words like that, I've steered
clear of. Could you help me know exactly what you mean when
In a message dated 4/22/99 3:27:48 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome.
KDE is not free or not fully free.
As stated in the release that came out a few days ago - it had to do with the
fact that KDE has been around
In a message dated 4/20/99 2:20:00 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article recommending
that Redhat and Debian form an alliance. Redhat becomes the distributor to
1)
commercial operations and 2) people who are only
In a message dated 4/15/99 7:46:00 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I downloaded WordPerfect for Linux (an X application), gunzipped it to a
tar file and then ran tar on it to extract about 8 or 9 files plus Runme
(the installer script) and readme (the info and
The libraries Jan menionted (included at the end of this post) are the files
you need to make the install work. You need the xlib, xpm, and licb5
installed. The xlib and xpm need to be libc5 versions - you may already have
then libc6 versions installed as well.
-Jay
In a message dated
In a message dated 4/15/99 12:54:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you think I can delete all the directories it created for the
installation? (not the WordPerfect directory of course.) I suppose these
might have been left behind because of my multiple attempts to
In a message dated 4/12/99 10:34:17 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-VALID-COOKIE-1 key
Can't connect to X server :0.0'
Check the list archives - this was answered just a few days ago..
Basically, you need
In a message dated 4/12/99 11:39:36 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think my recommendation as far as xemacs vs emacs goes is that, for
a new emacs user, xemacs offers that one advantage of GUIs -- little
pull down menus that help you use the editor before you learn
In a message dated 4/12/99 2:05:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal.
Hate to sound like a broken record here, but so does emacs... at least under
X it does...
-Jay
In a message dated 4/8/99 7:32:49 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
It depends on what kind of a video card you use. Check out the Linux Laptop
homepage
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
For your problem, in your XF86Config, if you have something
In a message dated 4/8/99 11:59:42 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
My laptop used to work just beautifully with my pcmcia modem, it was
recognized and dialed just fine--now when I run 'pon' I get:
pppd 2.3.5 started by bob
tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
Exit.
In a message dated 4/9/99 9:39:51 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which window manager are you using? It must be possible to fix this:
you're just bothered by the initial placement of the windows, not with
bits of your actual desktop being off the screen, right?
It
In a message dated 4/9/99 10:02:49 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
199 2 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
200 3 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
201 4 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
202 5 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
203 6 S0:00
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:43:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is libXt.so.6 a glibc library as I suspect, or am I wrong?
It's in glib (libc5) and glibc (libc6) - both using the same name.
-jay
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
oh my. Looks like I
In a message dated 4/8/99 3:17:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000 or
NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com) and use M$
In a message dated 4/6/99 5:44:49 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
$ /usr/local/netscape/netscape
/usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
all the xpm pkgs in stable/x11 are installed.
Is it possible you have the libc6 versions of xmp
In a message dated 4/6/99 6:27:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAIK, your problem is neither new nor soluble: what's happening is that
your pixelsize is too large for the default windowsize to fit within the
screen boundaries--either set a higher resolution or live
I have two things to say about this, or maybe three:
1) Am I the only one that is tired of hearing about the bickering between
these two? and on a Debian-user list? and on a public mailing list?
2) If the authorities have been notified - fine, leave us out of it.
3) Don't make judgements
In a message dated 4/6/99 11:51:56 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically
to X windows?
1) If you're using hamm - put no-xdm in your /etc/X11/options file to
prevent xdm from starting
On any system you should
In a message dated 4/6/99 3:43:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This happens to me often with Netscape 4.51 and 4.08. Although it is
immortal when faced with a windowmanager kill signal, is has always
died properly when faced with a kill -9 pid
I'll second that -
In a message dated 4/6/99 3:13:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I've got an annoying problem with slink on a compaq armada laptop.
About 4 out of 5 times when I shutdown (#reboot) the shutdown process
runs to near completion, then hangs with the message:
In a message dated 4/4/99 3:48:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had that error too. You can't run Marlstrom in 24 bpp, it must be in 16
or less. That should fix your problem. It took me a while to get it
fixed, so this might not be the answer that fixes that one
Curious...
There are alot of plugins available for netscape, but most don't specifically
mention they are for linux - in fact, one of them I tried gave me an .exe.
file to run to install.
Well, obviously, this won't work with Linux... so, which plugins work for
Linux, is there a repository
In a message dated 4/5/99 4:49:28 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I get help on c/c++ functions, including the library (.h) file
for them?
man query etc. ? (how do i search for it?)
Is it possible to get a list of functions available on the system,
and/or a
I had my /etc/X11/window-managers start up enlightenment, then put the exec
gnome-session into the .xsession in my home dir (I couldn't get X to read
.xinitrc).
-Jay
In a message dated 4/2/99 1:31:26 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink \
unstable main
What's the difference between the above and:
deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main
Is it just me, the current date, or am I seeing a bunch of messages come
throught that I could have sworn I'd seen previously?
-Jay
In a message dated 3/29/99 7:27:34 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in
8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is
not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a
In a message dated 3/30/99 10:23:17 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You forgot that Gnome and KDE aren't either (for you AOLamers out there,
neither is Info) :)
If that's true, the programmers working on KDE and GNOME out to be noodle-
whipped in public. These products
I have slink installed. If I decide I want to install some files from potato,
namely GNOME, how do I set up dselect/apt to do it? If I point my package
files at potato instead of slink, it'll upgrade everything, and I really don't
want to do that. Nor do I want to go through the hassle of
In a message dated 3/29/99 2:29:43 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apt will keep a boolean flag called 'Auto' for each package installed
on your system. 'Auto' is short for 'Automatically uninstall this
package when it is not required anymore because of a dependency'.
Just curious, how's the .debs of GNOME v1.0 coming?
-Jay
I just burned 3 CDs back to back today at 2x speed. Never have heard of
anything that requires you to power down after writing a CD, and frankly, any
drive that would require such a thing wouldn't be used by me in the first
place. I seriously doubt there is such a beast.
I've been playing (read frustrating myself crazy) with Linux now for a few
months. I have done an upgrade from hamm to slink. I figured out how to get
X running. I figured out how to get KDE installed. I can call my ISP.
I just had one of those cool! moments I thought I'd share with everyone
In a message dated 3/26/99 4:44:41 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Also, does linux handle the cd-rw's? If so, are they worth the extra
money
to get?
IMO, no. A CD-RW blank costs upwards of 30$ while a CD-R blank costs 1$
to 1.80$ so you would need to blank a
In a message dated 3/26/99 10:14:31 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I do an ls -l in a directory such as /etc, it
lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see
about 150 of them because of my limited buffer size
or whatever that might be called !
Okay, everyone send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about unsolicited
ads on our mailing list.
How rude...
In a message dated 3/23/99 7:20:26 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 3/22/99 6:58:55 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can get debian packages from www.kde.org (follow the ftp site
links). But be warned, you need the unstable version of qtg in order
to install them. I just installed the debian kde packages, but I
In a message dated 3/23/99 8:18:41 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what
is happenning.
the output of pppd is already stored in your /var/log/syslog.
-Jay
Thanks for the response. ;)
Unfortunately, switching to chap didn't help any. I'm pretty sure my ISP uses
PAP, at least when I connect via the console instead of KPPP I see PAP
authentication.
-Jay
I've noticed something over the past few days:
When I switch from my KDE session to the console using CTL-ALT-F1, sometimes
the background of the console (the text positions that DON'T have characters
in them) are given the ASCII block character. All spaces and unused positions
are fill with
I also agree with the idea of having a single starting point for
documentation. And something I kind of wonder about - why are there always so
many documents for a given program? Can't they be combined into one document
devided into sections? With info pages, you can get to any specific section
In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
labs.com writes:
Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for
those programs that also have info pages, eh?
Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an info vs. man war,
In a message dated 3/19/99 7:20:15 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am in the process of downloading debian (slink) at work to install at
home. I have a cdr at work, and this is how I plan to transport the
distribution home. At home, I need to install slink from the
In a message dated 3/19/99 2:38:57 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I was in Barnes Nobles and there is a new Linux Mag called Linux Magazine.
If they have a website up - can you post the URL for us? Thanks..
-Jay
In a message dated 3/17/99 2:39:34 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently started wondering what the -- MARK -- lines in
/var/log/messages represent. I cannot explain them logically, nor have I
found a daemon that's responsible for these lines.
Search the list
In a message dated 3/15/99 8:05:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Please don't slam people for not reading everything. That is why you
are needed- because they don't have time, or maybe they just aren't
capable of understanding everything- again, that is why you are
In a message dated 3/16/99 11:48:46 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i can't seem to run the programs i compiled
ie int main(){printf (Hi, world!\n);}
it compiles but i get the command not found error mesg.
what am i doing wrong?
If you compile a program called
In a message dated 3/14/99 6:21:50 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose:
Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file:
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: yellow
XTerm*geometry: 69x28
In a message dated 3/14/99 8:31:41 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Translation overrides look like this:
*VT100.Translations: #override ~Meta KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\
KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\
In a message dated 3/15/99 3:26:24 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X?
(or it it something else?)
Gnome is more of an object handling system than anything. I suppose you could
consider it a desktop
In a message dated 3/15/99 4:05:04 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Something else. You can use your existing WM with gnome.
Gnome just provides libraries for applications and also several
utility apps. The gnome-panel is an example of a utility app.
Also, the gnome
In a message dated 3/15/99 4:45:39 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just curious - is there a doc that lists comparisons between GNOME and
KDE?
Just to to dejanews and do a search under 'flame'. ;-)
LOL - Okay. I've picked myself up off the floor now. ;)
I'm using KDE 1.1 Debian 2.1 (slink):
I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose:
Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file:
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: yellow
XTerm*geometry: 69x28
Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in
In a message dated 3/14/99 9:22:21 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi-
I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type
filename
Thanky you,
-James
cat file will work the same as type will.
you can also use:
more file to do the same thing, but
Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says
it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect.
Can anyone point me to the true type fonts package(s)?
TIA,
Jay
So, now that slink is marked as stable, does this mean that it will never be
updated again? I'm confused about new packages - do they get added to
existing releases or only to unstable ones?
Reason I'm asking? I want to make a debian CD.
-Jay
In a message dated 3/12/99 11:25:06 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, I just upgraded to slink, and thought everything was ok, but that was
before I rebooted. My system rebooted, and started xdm (or whatever),
which I don't want, and the keyboard seemed to be locked
In a message dated 3/12/99 12:52:57 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Your right it is .ttf, and they are normally found in the windows\fonts
directory.
Okay. I've got xfstt, I've got my .ttf fonts from the Windows dir. Now what?
Do I just move them to
This is a goofy topic, but, what the hey
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon
PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours
after noon, or midnight.
By that logic, 12:01pm would be 12 hours and 1 minute after noon, or 1 minute
after midnight. :)
In a message dated 3/11/99 10:48:52 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
12:00 PM is noon, because the time switches from AM to PM at noon.
Simple, eh?
John Hasler is correct. The point is there is NO 12 am or 12 pm. As he
explained, am means 'ante meridiem'. This
In a message dated 3/11/99 11:31:55 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Say noon and midnight, or use 24 hour notation.
One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter?
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it changes to
In a message dated 3/10/99 6:44:38 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Are there Gnome 1.0 debs yet?
I haven't tried Gnome yet. 1.0 seems like the place to start.
Ya know, I don't want to offend any of the developers or anything, but I'm
curious about something... Why is
In a message dated 3/9/99 4:33:12 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See what you want, just know that you're more than likely 100% wrong.
I can only see what you project with your attitudes and behaviors.
Which are only a reflection of your own.
In a message dated 3/7/99 10:45:21 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 ($38.95 direct) ...
...Windows users should steer clear of Debian.
I completely agree. Your forget, the targe of Windows is those people that
DON'T know an IRQ from an I/O address.
In a message dated 3/7/99 11:55:54 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm a newbie to Linux and want to install debian on my laptop as my
primary (only) machine, its a compaq armada 1535 w/ 3com 3c575
pcmcia ethernet.
there is now a debian-laptop list. You can
In a message dated 3/5/99 5:45:28 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
from the direct links in the debian.org, install file, i've downloaded
all of the install files except the linux image kernel file. when i
click on the link, the browser tries to open the file (instead of
In a message dated 3/4/99 7:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The appear to be tools to `defrag' an ext2
partition, but I never saw any convincing reasons for using them. They
may even be a risk to your data.
I've tried the ext2 defrag program, and while it
In a message dated 3/4/99 10:53:58 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Debian has a large number of packages (2400 in potato, and just under
2000 in slink). All of the package maintainers communicate, so thus the
packages work more smoothly together.
It might help
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