Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 07:18:09 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: Deo Soli Debianae Invicto Seculari While we are correcting each other, Liddle and Scott prefers saeculari. You must be American! Bohemians. The whole lot of us. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less command-prompt comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI via the desktop manager. But when setting it up for myself or for people technically sharp enough to log in and then type startx (and people you can trust with the

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various iterations of Debian working out of the box. Ever since Sarge I have had no end of trouble either with new installations or upgrades, to

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less command-prompt comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI via the desktop manager. But when setting it up for myself or for people technically

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/20/14, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Here's some guidelines to reduce install/run problems. 2. Motherboard and graphic card chips can be a problem in general, new or old. I try to stick with nVidia, Realtek and AMD. I avoid Intel and Broadcom, particularly the newest chips.

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/20/14, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less command-prompt comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI via the desktop

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
@lists.debian.org; Subject: Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience Attachment name: libintrospect.sh If so, then here's the libintrospect.sh file for cutting and pasting: [ -n $ZLIB_INTROSPECT ] return || typeset -xr ZLIB_INTROSPECT=0

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 3/20/14, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Here's some guidelines to reduce install/run problems. 2. Motherboard and graphic card chips can be a problem in general, new or old. I try to stick with nVidia, Realtek and AMD. I avoid

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:10:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: or *cough* Orkadian *cough* :) The selkie that deud no' forget Ae time langsine, Mansie Meur wus pickan' lempeds i' the ebb, on the wast side o' Hacksness i' Sanday, whin he wus stunned tae hear some

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/03/14 13:48, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less command-prompt comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI via the desktop manager. But

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
4. Stick with manufacturers who overtly support Linux. Which certainly includes Intel (these days) in a pretty big way! It's been so long (years!) since I read anything regarding Intel that because of what you've said, perhaps it's time I catch up with what Intel's been up to.

Great Debian experience

2014-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Here's why I like Debian Stable... My daughter's computer broke, so last night I took a three year, 3GB RAM, old wreck of a laptop and, using the Debian 7.4 network installer, installed Wheezy. I chose expert install, told it to install the nonfree repositories and auto-partition to a

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-18 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, El 18/03/2014 19:54, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com escribió: Hi all, Here's why I like Debian Stable... Then I looked up instructions on how to install Skype, and after a little experimentation because the instructions weren't perfect, Skype was installed. If you

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