Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 04:56 am, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I added USB to my 2.4.18 kernel not long ago to support an unsupported > > web cam. When I say unsupported, I mean really unsupported by the > > manufac

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Kent West
Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I wish to really master Debian. > What is the suggested course to follow, to learn? Just do it. :-) Hopefully on a second box, so that you can keep one running while getting the hang of Debian, just install it. Learn by doing. But before posting questions to this li

RE: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread David Pastern
f i'm wrong guys, i'm not sure if Debian patches stuff like that into the kernel, or if it uses stock standard kernels). Dave -Original Message- From: Robert Wilhelm Land [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 9:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subject:

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I added USB to my 2.4.18 kernel not long ago to support an unsupported web > cam. When I say unsupported, I mean really unsupported by the manufacture! > They don't even support M$ users. A fellow M$ user gave it to me when he > couldn't get it to work on his

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ http://www.aboutdebian.com/index.htm http://www.debianhelp.org/ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ http://www.debian.org/doc/ Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have > switched to Debian, because I have alwa

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread jeff
> I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have switched > to Debian, because I have always wanted it--and I don't like to have everything > done for me, all my choices made for me, the way the two mentioned distros do. > The thing is, having run those distros in the past,

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I will attempt this one paragraph at a time. On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:31 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have > switched to Debian, because I have always wanted it--and I don't li

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > There is so much to learn! That is true, and also explains why learning Debian can be a bit overwhelming at times. It took me a about a year before I started to really feel comfortable with it. I have a few tips for you: * Become comfortable at un

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Matt Price
hi there, rebuilding the kernel really isn't as hard as you might think. I'm a total newbie, and it was one of the first things I did (had to, didn't do it by choice). I've attached a couple of files that really helped me out -- I forgot who gave them t r Coin or Dman, I think, but in any case

On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Mark Seven Smith
I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have switched to Debian, because I have always wanted it--and I don't like to have everything done for me, all my choices made for me, the way the two mentioned distros do. The thing is, having run those distros in the past, didn