On Lu, 21 ian 13, 19:15:05, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I'd say it's quite well documented, see 'man hier'.
well, yes, it is in a man page but not really a ratified standard or anything
of
that sort. One can create a man page for anything but, I see your point.
I'm not so sure you do (but my
On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
[snip]
If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system
with almost nothing. Even less is not present in such an
installation :D
I keep a list of all the packages I normally use and then get the same
ones when I install
The original poster shouldn't care about this discussion. It's interesting
for people with some experience using Linux and who have got special needs.
The release of Debian called stable is always the official released
version of Debian. Ordinary users should use this version. -
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote:
On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
[snip]
If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system
with almost nothing. Even less is not present in such an
installation :D
I keep a
[snip]
For a normal usage, testing is better, even if the project claims it
is not for production environment. More recent kernels and drivers
which means more supported hardware, and updated web browsers are
some obvious interesting points here. They are simply the most
obvious.
On Lu, 21 ian 13, 11:15:23, Brad Alexander wrote:
I run a script nightly to capture the package list, debconf database,
disk information (df, df -h, and fdisk -l), and autoinstalled packages
list for every host in my network.
What this allows me to do is have a pool of generic hosts
On Lu, 21 ian 13, 14:24:10, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I think, and this is a WAG ( Wild As* Guess ), there is
a defacto undocumented standard in the linux world which seems to say that
stuff in /usr/local is just local to that given system and never
touched by a package update.
I'd say it's
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:10 -0500
Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org wrote:
[snip]
For a normal usage, testing is better, even if the project claims
it is not for production environment. More recent kernels and
drivers which means more supported hardware, and updated web
- Original Message -
From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:07 pm
Subject: Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Lu, 21 ian 13, 14:24:10, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I think
On Du, 20 ian 13, 08:23:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
A disadvantage for Debian compared to Arch IMO is, that Debian e.g.
installs and starts all kinds of services, installs all kinds of
apps etc. a user might not need.
There is no such thing as Debian installs. Even in normal mode of the
Debian
Le 20.01.2013 07:46, Yaro Kasear a écrit :
On 01/20/2013 12:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Debian probably won't be doing the switch to systemd. Systemd
required very Linux-specific kernel features and Debian has a couple
non-Linux ports that'd make going systemd impractical (However I
believe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:01:37 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
my wishes are not to start a war here
We could save time and uproar, if we simply link to already existing flame
wars :D.
My apologies, I guess we are to OT for the OP. @ the OP: don't worry about
what we were
Le 20.01.2013 00:07, ventur...@yahoo.com a écrit :
Hello:
Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU
/ LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the
trouble-shooting process.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Herschel
I think main problems is lack of
On 01/19/2013 05:07 PM, ventur...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello:
Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU
/ LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the
trouble-shooting process.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Herschel
Maybe the primary problem comes
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:07:19 +0100, ventur...@yahoo.com wrote:
Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU /
LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the
trouble-shooting process.
For averaged usage there aren't common problems. What ever
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:36:45 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Some examples I am thinking about is support for recent NVidia cards,
various wifi or sound chip-sets which do not always have free drivers.
The common way to solve those problems is by adding non-free
repositories, and
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:39:55 +0100, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
Linux system I'd recommend Arch instead.
Which I don't call a rolling release. Arch was my preferred distro. If you
have a distro with releases you can make hard transitions. For Ubuntu the
transition from init to
On 01/19/2013 06:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:39:55 +0100, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
Linux system I'd recommend Arch instead.
Which I don't call a rolling release. Arch was my preferred distro. If
you have a distro with releases you can make hard transitions.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:59:42 +0100, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
Even the non-free stuff provided for Debian in their official repos or
in many third party repos is perfectly safe and usable.
non-free provided by Debian is safe
regarding to third party repos the OP should ask the list
On 01/20/2013 12:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:59:42 +0100, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
Even the non-free stuff provided for Debian in their official repos
or in many third party repos is perfectly safe and usable.
non-free provided by Debian is safe
regarding to
SNIP it also
caused that the mailing list became moderated and some users were
completely banned from the list.SNIP
If you mean 'this' mailing list been moderated, my guess is you are
mistaken. And are you positive about people being blacklisted? That
would be pretty bad, dont you think?
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:08:21 +0100, Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr
wrote:
SNIP it also
caused that the mailing list became moderated and some users were
completely banned from the list.SNIP
If you mean 'this' mailing list been moderated, my guess is you are
mistaken. And are you positive
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