Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 21 March 2004 02:39, Roberto Sanchez wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's perfectly possible to install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports of things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs I am too much of a newbie to attempt such a thing. I was

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:39:30PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's perfectly possible to install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports of things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs I am too much of a newbie to attempt such a thing.

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My reccomendation is to download the kernel-source-* package that corresponds to the kernel you run now. Use the configuration for your currently running kernel (since you know it works). After going through the process a few times, you will begin to

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently it's still microsoft, mainly because of games, Non-issue. http://www.transgaming.com/ I'm a *serious* Vice City junkie, and I don't have any consoles and I don't do Windows. but I am sure this will change sometime in the future when Linux gets a little

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:21:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. More insight is very welcome, so keep them coming. So far what I think I am going to do is wait for SuSE 9.1 and the new release of Debian (which I presume will both use the 2.6 Kernel) and

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's perfectly possible to install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports of things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs I am too much of a newbie to attempt such a thing. I was raised on BASIC, on the Timex-Sinclair, C64, TI-994A, then moved to

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:46:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Better than any other OS on the market. You might have to work for parts of it, but jeeze, what other distribution of anything supports 13

Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread users
No good reason why, but I am considering switching from SuSE 8.2 to Debian. Knowledge and skill-wise, I probably am still in the newbie category, but I can do a heck of a lot more than I could at first. Some questions for those of you who use Debian: 1. In the newest version, how good is the

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No good reason why, but I am considering switching from SuSE 8.2 to Debian. Knowledge and skill-wise, I probably am still in the newbie category, but I can do a heck of a lot more than I could at first. Some questions for those of you who use Debian: 1. In the newest

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems with SuSE and redhat (which I played with for a week or two), my major issues are ALWAYS hardware. Which I doubt is earth shattering. 2. Boot loader -- I am pretty sure I read on their website

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: [snip] But what about LCD support (how easily can I adjust refresh rate etc.? I am not afraid to do it by hand, as long as it will let me). I googled on my LCD monitor's model and found that someone had posted some helpful modelines. I used those

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. In the newest version, how good is the hardware support? Better than any other OS on the market. You might have to work for parts of it, but jeeze, what other distribution of anything supports 13 architectures? How