RE: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I finally tried RedHat a couple of years later I was disgusted because it wanted me to do configuration using their 'tools' vs. just editing /etc/* --- I found that I could tweak it a lot less before the whole thing broke and I finally reinstalled

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:07:59PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that RedHat might be able to support sound w/out recompiling if they included a OSS license in their packaged distro. Which wouldn't supprise me... considering the ammount of deals they're cutting, OSS would be pretty

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Barry Kauler
err, Could someone tell me what OSS means? And ALSA ... So, are you saying that we just bring in sndconfig from Red Hat, run it, and that's it, we have sound? Regards, On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:07:59PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Jun-99 Barry Kauler wrote: err, Could someone tell me what OSS means? Open Source Sound -- Andrew

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:37:51PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 08-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I finally tried RedHat a couple of years later I was disgusted because it wanted me to do configuration using their 'tools' vs. just editing /etc/* --- I found that I could tweak it a lot

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 09-Jun-99 Barry Kauler wrote: err, Could someone tell me what OSS means? Open Source Sound Actually, Open Sound System, see http://www.opensound.com/oss.html;. Sincerely, Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Jun-99 Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 09-Jun-99 Barry Kauler wrote: err, Could someone tell me what OSS means? Open Source Sound oops. Thanks for the correction. -- Andrew Actually, Open Sound System, see

Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-08 Thread gla2
I moved to Debian from slackware... and have been very satisfied with it to date... I've done all installs via apt over the network, without cd's, and from ya'll discriptions this appears to be more straightforward than actually using a cd. My first linux install was about 4 years ago... I was