Michael B Allen wrote:
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote:
Testing might be the release level you are looking for...
(I found Stable to be just a tad too old for my tastes as a desktop)
Good thing I'm running a headless Internet server :)
Mike
I have 2 pieces of
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:18:08AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
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| How is support for UTF-8 locales?
I just realized that I forgot to answer this question. I've been using
'en_US.UTF-8' as my locale for some time now. Many applications
handle it very well, though some don't. Particularly
This was very useful information Derrick. The text mode support for querying,
updating, and particularly installing packages with apt-* and dpkg is indeed far
superior to rpm. It was very easy to install postfix-tls (of course configuration
appears to be another issue entirely :)
Ok. I am well on
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
This was very useful information Derrick. The text mode support for querying,
updating, and particularly installing packages with apt-* and dpkg is indeed far
superior to rpm. It was very easy to install postfix-tls (of course
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote:
Personally I never used their services anyway so I could care less. I still
use RH 7.3 on all my Linux machines (quite a few). The problem I'm faced
with now is not a feeling of abandonment but finding a boring, stable,
consistent
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote:
Testing might be the release level you are looking for...
(I found Stable to be just a tad too old for my tastes as a desktop)
Good thing I'm running a headless Internet server :)
Mike
--
A program should be written to model the
Hello,
I just got a linode UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
update a package I have to get the source from their latest packages
and
Michael B Allen wrote:
Hello,
I just got a linode UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
update a package I have to get the source from their
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:18:08AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I just got a linode UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
| 2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
| for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
|
Em Ter, 2004-01-06 s 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
update a package I have to get the source from their latest packages
and rebuild. So I thought I'd try debian
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
Em Ter, 2004-01-06 às 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3.
Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade to GLibC 2.4 when you
upgrade to testing in order to get Gnome 2.
There's
Em Ter, 2004-01-06 s 16:16, Colin Watson escreveu:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimares Faria Corcete Dutra
wrote:
Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade to GLibC 2.4 when you
upgrade to testing in order to get Gnome 2.
There's no such thing as glibc
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Michael B Allen wrote:
So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more
consistent. Is this true? Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3. How is support for
UTF-8 locales? Etc. What surprises can a RH user expect?
I'm a former RedHat user too (changed back in
Back when I used RedHat I always found it to be a pain the way you
have to manually track down, and rebuild, package depedencies.
| So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent.
| Is this true?
Debian includes all of its packages in one place, and automatically
builds
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra
wrote:
Em Ter, 2004-01-06 ?s 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3.
Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade to GLibC
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:14:09 -0500 (EST)
Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
big snip
If I use debian it sounds like using custom packages is more
difficult. I'll have to create a file with equivs-contol and then edit
it. That's not so bad but knowing what to put in it bothers me.
That's
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
What surprises can a RH user expect?
I guess the biggest hurdles would be the text-mode, no-detection
installer (do a system inventory first) and the fact that stable is
obsolete, so one is almost forced to upgrade to
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:14:09PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
| Back when I used RedHat I always found it to be a pain the way you
| have to manually track down, and rebuild, package depedencies.
|
| | So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent.
| | Is this true?
|
|
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimares Faria Corcete Dutra
wrote:
| Em Ter, 2004-01-06 s 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
| What surprises can a RH user expect?
| the fact that stable is
| obsolete, so one
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