Re: Debian review...

2001-09-29 Thread Jussi Ekholm
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:41:00AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: Bill McCarty's book on Debian (still online, free) is, IMHO, still the best guide for new users. Where can I find this book Quick (very quick) Google-search told me, several things, but not the location of it. -- Jussi Ekholm,

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Jussi Ekholm wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:41:00AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: Bill McCarty's book on Debian (still online, free) is, IMHO, still the best guide for new users. Where can I find this book Quick (very quick) Google-search told me, several things, but not the location

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-29 Thread Jussi Ekholm
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:21:52PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Jussi Ekholm wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:41:00AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: Bill McCarty's book on Debian (still online, free) is, IMHO, still the best guide for new users. Where can I find this book Quick (very quick)

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-29 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:56:44PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: Hey i was curious where this book by Bill McCarty online. I would love to read it. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-29 Thread Rene Chaddock
Atually, I had been using linux for a few years (Slackware and redhat), and I found the install documentation for debian practically impossible to parse. It seemed to spend more time reassuring me that it was easy than it did to just tell me how to get the damn thing installed. I eventually built

Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html and found out that in the reviews they make about several distros, they don't have a very good one for

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Sep 2001, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html and found out that in the reviews they make about several

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
I agree with the fact that debian is not hard to install at all... Maybe before it was... I just downloaded it and installed it a couple of days ago and was very impressed, I'm very happy with it and that's why I thought it deserves a better review... On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote:

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:22:08AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html and found out that in the reviews

RE: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:22:08AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html and found out that in the

Debian review in LJ Buyers Guide

1997-02-20 Thread Richard Morin
Run, don't walk to your newstand or mailbox, and grab the Linux Journal 1997 Buyers Guide. There is a rather favourable Product Review by Phil Hughes and Jonathan Gross. Too bad they stuck in way in the back on page 128, but hey I'd like to ask why the chart on page 126 lists the target

Re: Debian review in Linux Journal

1997-01-22 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: I'd like to know if someone can give me a link to a place where I can read the Debian review made by the Linux Journal staff in their November 1996 issue. Do not think that LJ has all their articles on-line. They have some, but not the Debian

Re: Debian review in Linux Journal

1997-01-22 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 21, Eloy A. Paris wrote I'd like to know if someone can give me a link to a place where I can read the Debian review made by the Linux Journal staff in their November 1996 issue. I don't think you can find it online yet. But, http://www.ssc.com/lj/mags.html gives an email address

Re: Debian review in Linux Journal

1997-01-22 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if someone can give me a link to a place where I can read the Debian review made by the Linux Journal staff in their November 1996 issue. From www.debian.org I thought the review

Debian review in Linux Journal

1997-01-22 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I'd like to know if someone can give me a link to a place where I can read the Debian review made by the Linux Journal staff in their November 1996 issue. From www.debian.org I thought the review was in September's issue so I order the back issue and sadly found out that in that issue