Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-15 Thread linux
El día 14 de enero de 2012 12:06, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com escribió: El Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:05:13 -0800, carugnom escribió: Quisiera consultar sobre como se deben hacer las actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es

Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
El Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:05:13 -0800, carugnom escribió: Quisiera consultar sobre como se deben hacer las actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es que recomiendan ENFATICAMENTE utilizar solo 'apt-get' para actualizar el

Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-13 Thread carugnom
Hola grupo ! Quisiera consultar sobre como se deben hacer las actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es que recomiendan ENFATICAMENTE utilizar solo 'apt-get' para actualizar el sistema, y hacerlo sin las X corriendo. Sin

Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-13 Thread Sergio Bessopeanetto
carugnom escribió: Hola grupo ! Quisiera consultar sobre como se deben hacer las actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es que recomiendan ENFATICAMENTE utilizar solo 'apt-get' para actualizar el sistema, y hacerlo sin las

Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-13 Thread carugnom
On 13 ene, 11:40, Sergio Bessopeanetto sergio.b...@ymail.com wrote: carugnom escribió: Hola grupo ! Quisiera consultar sobre como se deben hacer las actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es que recomiendan

Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-13 Thread Cristian Mitchell
Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es que recomiendan ENFATICAMENTE utilizar solo 'apt-get' para actualizar el sistema, y hacerlo sin las X corriendo. Sin embargo, nunca escuche esto en ninguna lista de Debian con respecto a SID. El metodo Sidux de actualizacion es el que debe

Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-13 Thread Javier Barroso
actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y una de las pocas diferencias con SID es que recomiendan ENFATICAMENTE utilizar solo 'apt-get' para actualizar el sistema, y hacerlo sin las X corriendo. Sin embargo, nunca escuche esto en ninguna lista de Debian con

Re: Actualizacion en SID tipo Sidux ?

2012-01-13 Thread Angel Claudio Alvarez
El vie, 13-01-2012 a las 06:55 -0800, carugnom escribió: On 13 ene, 11:40, Sergio Bessopeanetto sergio.b...@ymail.com wrote: carugnom escribió: Hola grupo ! Quisiera consultar sobre como se deben hacer las actualizaciones en la rama SID de Debian. Por un tiempo he usado Sidux, y

Re: Sidux son - KO

2010-05-12 Thread jerome moliere
salut essaie de desactiver pulseaudio souvent les problèmes de son viennent de pulse.-- merci de la réponse, en fait je pense que ta piste est bonne mais je dois dire que je suis un peu dérouté par la configuration KDE dans sidux... en fait je ne trouve pas l'équivalent du control center

Re: Sidux son - KO

2010-05-12 Thread Florian BLANC
} Et si pour mplayer tu n'as pas de son, tu édite et modifie /etc/ mplayer/mplayer.conf : ao=pulse, Voilà pour plus de réglages GUI tu peux install les paquets recommandés par pulseaudio. Sinon recherche sur les forums car sidux c'est une debian like. En espérant t'avoir aidé. Cordialement

Re: Sidux son - KO

2010-05-12 Thread jerome moliere
Merci de votre aide ... En fait j'ai fini par supprimer pulseaudio ,virer les confs, redémarrer et hop magique j'ai du son (au moins sous Gnome) encore merci Jerome PS: j ai un souci avec un grub qui se charge et qu'est pas le bon mais je teste supergrub disk avant de vous embeter -- Jerome

Sidux son - KO

2010-05-11 Thread jerome moliere
Bonjour à tous, sur mon dell studio 1557 (équipé d'un chipset intel 810 et carte graphique ati radeon 3970 je crois) j'ai un comportement bizarre sur une sidux toute fraiche (avec MAJ vers KDE 4.4.x;y) lspci |grep audio - me sort bien ma carte cat /proc/ j'ai bien 2 cartes son (chipset i810 et

Re: Sidux son - KO

2010-05-11 Thread deny
Le 11/05/2010 11:31, en cette année 2010 *jerome moliere* a écrit fort justement : Bonjour à tous, sur mon dell studio 1557 (équipé d'un chipset intel 810 et carte graphique ati radeon 3970 je crois) j'ai un comportement bizarre sur une sidux toute fraiche (avec MAJ vers KDE 4.4.x;y) lspci

Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread ZephyrQ
I keep a fairly vanilla Lenny box to do most of my personal/work stuff get frustrated when I want to play a newer game and/or upgrade some software that is requiring a newer library. Usually backports aren't available and/or too unwieldy. My question is how usable is Sidux? I've read a few

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to Squeeze? I have both a Sidux and a Squeeze install at the moment. Usability wise they're roughly the same, though Sidux is generally faster about getting fixes in place. Neither Sidux nor Squeeze will be as stable

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:19, ZephyrQ zeph...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to Squeeze? I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :) Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble. For my

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :) Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble. In my experience, upgrading daily (or even twice a day) is almost totally painless. Sure, you may hit a few more bugs on the way, but the

Re: Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-15 Thread alexandre mathieu
installer gnome comme n'importe quel package présent dans les dépôts debian. Une sidux est avant tout une debian avec un peu de bling bling et quelques customizations. Un simple aptitude install gnome fonctionne parfaitement sur une sidux. De même qu'utiliser aptitude ou synaptic pour installer des paquets

Re: Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-15 Thread fenark
Bonjour, Je ne sais pas si pédagogiquement si une bonne idée sidux. En effet, dire on prend une version en cours de développement les yeux fermés, ce n'est pas trop la logique à transmettre il me semble. Une version stable est stable, les yeux fermés, ok. Une version en développement, le nom est

Re: Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-14 Thread Cristian
Bonjour, Je m'incruste, ça m'intéresse aussi, j'étais justement là dessus hier soire. Le 14/11/09, Le poulpe qui bloppe ! a écrit : L'avantage de sidux comparé a une sid, c'est la possibilite d'avoir une sid stable, sans reflechir lors de mises a jour. Autrement dit, quasiment pas de risque

Re: Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-14 Thread Cristian
Je me réponds à moi-même pour un point. Le 14/11/09, Cristian a écrit : L'incoveniant: il est impossible d'installer gnome, c'est bloqué. Y'a quelques autres trucs bloqués. Comment ça bloqués ? Genre on ne peut pas avoir Gnome sur sa Sidux ? Gnome n'est pas supporté par la Sidux. Ils disent

Re: Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-14 Thread claude poupelier
Le samedi 14 novembre 2009 à 08:30 +0100, Le poulpe qui bloppe ! a écrit : L'inconveniant: il est impossible d'installer gnome, c'est bloqué. Y'a quelques autres trucs bloqués. Dommage Pour quelqu'un qui sais un minimum faire attention aux mises a jours, y'a aucun interet a mes yeux, une

Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-13 Thread claude poupelier
Pour l'instant mon OS est Debian Lenny. Sans vouloir lancer de troll, bien que ce soir il y ait un super loto de vendredi 13, une question me tourne dans la tête depuis quelques jours. Quel intérêt trouvent des utilisateurs de la distribution Sidux à utiliser celle ci plutôt que Sid ? Si parmi

Re: Intérêt de Sidux par rapport à Sid

2009-11-13 Thread Le poulpe qui bloppe !
Bonjour, J'utilise les 2. Sid sur mon pc et sidux sur le portable. L'avantage de sidux comparé a une sid, c'est la possibilite d'avoir une sid stable, sans reflechir lors de mises a jour. L'incoveniant: il est impossible d'installer gnome, c'est bloqué. Y'a quelques autres trucs bloqués. C'est

Obtaining firmware - can one use Sidux files?

2009-07-26 Thread AG
Hello Given the on-going problems described here before about my SATA CDROM drive, I ran Sidux LiveCD and then installed it onto my HDD over the weekend. My CDROM drive was picked up perfectly. Sidux was running the 2.6.30* kernel, so thinking that that kernel might have better support

Acomdata 320 Gb external USB Linux/Sidux.

2009-03-16 Thread s. keeling
HybridDrive with stand. Windows Vista Compatible, fwiw. But see the end. fdisk sees nothing on this thing. Previously, all I could find on this thing was a read-only ptn, ca. 3 Gb, and system saw it as /dev/sr?. HTF do I partition this thing?!? :-| No hurry; it's just annoying. Surely Sidux

Re: [OT] Sidux, New HP AMD/ATI dv4 Pavilion - sound, fan, ...

2009-01-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Frank Lin PIAT: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:32 +, s. keeling wrote: s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com: s. keeling wrote: Hi. This is a nice box. I've installed Sidux' latest on it. The fan runs constantly. Gkrellm reports

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob? [Solution]

2009-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/20/2009 09:57 PM, s. keeling wrote: I was missing libsasl2-modules and sasl2-bin. This was helpful: http://tribulaciones.org/docs/postfix-sasl-tls-howto/ Does this mean that there is a Suggests/Recommends/Depends bug in Postfix? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob? [Solution]

2009-01-21 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net: On 01/20/2009 09:57 PM, s. keeling wrote: I was missing libsasl2-modules and sasl2-bin. This was helpful: http://tribulaciones.org/docs/postfix-sasl-tls-howto/ Does this mean that there is a Suggests/Recommends/Depends bug in Postfix? *I*

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob? [Solution]

2009-01-21 Thread mouss
Ron Johnson a écrit : On 01/20/2009 09:57 PM, s. keeling wrote: I was missing libsasl2-modules and sasl2-bin. This was helpful: http://tribulaciones.org/docs/postfix-sasl-tls-howto/ do read the official docs however: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob? [Solution]

2009-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/21/2009 12:46 PM, mouss wrote: Ron Johnson a écrit : [snip] Does this mean that there is a Suggests/Recommends/Depends bug in Postfix? In postfix, no. most people don't need cyrus-sasl. whether there is a packaging descrepancy in cyrus-sasl is a different story. I am too lazy to

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-20 Thread mouss
s. keeling a écrit : s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net: smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic == generic: keel...@newmil.nucleus.com keel...@nucleus.com More clues? Again, this is Sidux on AMD64, HP Pavilion dv4. Jan 19 18:33:35 newmil postfix/qmgr

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob? [Solution]

2009-01-20 Thread s. keeling
= hash:/etc/postfix/generic == generic: keel...@newmil.nucleus.com keel...@nucleus.com More clues? Again, this is Sidux on AMD64, HP Pavilion dv4. Jan 19 18:33:35 newmil postfix/qmgr[12263]: 4EDADBC06: from=keel...@newmil.nucleus.com, size=671, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 19

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-19 Thread s. keeling
mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net: s. keeling a écrit : Hi. I'd rather it ran from inetd. don't. if you don't have a lot of mail, reduce the number of processes in postfix master.cf. Okay. Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/smtp[21710]: E2196BBF7: to=keel...@nucleus.com,

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-19 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net: smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic == generic: keel...@newmil.nucleus.com keel...@nucleus.com More clues? Again, this is Sidux on AMD64, HP Pavilion dv4. Jan 19 18:33:35 newmil postfix/qmgr[12263]: 4EDADBC06

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-18 Thread mouss
s. keeling a écrit : Hi. I'd rather it ran from inetd. don't. if you don't have a lot of mail, reduce the number of processes in postfix master.cf. These are single user systems, intended to be fed via pop3/fetchmail/procmail/mutt, flowing back via my ISP's smarthost. I've fought with

[OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-17 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'd rather it ran from inetd. These are single user systems, intended to be fed via pop3/fetchmail/procmail/mutt, flowing back via my ISP's smarthost. I've fought with Sendmail successfully in the past, limped along with exim* for years, and now Postfix. What're my most obvious blunders?

Re: instalando sidux

2008-11-24 Thread Mario Daniel Carugno
La verdad nunca use gparted. Porque no probas de hacer las particiones en una consola, con fdisk o cfdisk y luego instalas sidux sin usar el particionador ?

Re: instalando sidux

2008-11-24 Thread AlePando
2008/11/24 Mario Daniel Carugno [EMAIL PROTECTED]: La verdad nunca use gparted. Porque no probas de hacer las particiones en una consola, con fdisk o cfdisk y luego instalas sidux sin usar el particionador ? Me he bajado la version AMD 64 I686... y yo tengo un Notebook i386 y que no es

Re: instalando sidux

2008-11-24 Thread Maximiliano Marin Bustos
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, AlePando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/24 Mario Daniel Carugno [EMAIL PROTECTED]: La verdad nunca use gparted. Porque no probas de hacer las particiones en una consola, con fdisk o cfdisk y luego instalas sidux sin usar el particionador ? Me he

Re: instalando sidux

2008-11-24 Thread Mario Daniel Carugno
2008/11/24 AlePando [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/11/24 Mario Daniel Carugno [EMAIL PROTECTED]: La verdad nunca use gparted. Porque no probas de hacer las particiones en una consola, con fdisk o cfdisk y luego instalas sidux sin usar el particionador ? Me he bajado la version AMD 64

Re: instalando sidux

2008-11-24 Thread AlePando
luego instalas sidux sin usar el particionador ? Me he bajado la version AMD 64 I686... y yo tengo un Notebook i386 y que no es AMD... ¡Plop! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] EPIC FAIL XD Son cosas que

Re: instalando sidux

2008-11-24 Thread Mario Daniel Carugno
particiones en una consola, con fdisk o cfdisk y luego instalas sidux sin usar el particionador ? Me he bajado la version AMD 64 I686... y yo tengo un Notebook i386 y que no es AMD... ¡Plop! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

instalando sidux

2008-11-22 Thread AlePando
He hecho algunos intentos para montar en el disco duro el 'Sidux' (debian livecd basado en debian sid) www.sidux.com Con el gparted le cree una particion: /dev/sda5 tamaño: 30 Gb sistema de archivos ext3 y esto es lo que hice y el error que salio al final, por lo que entiendo es cuando accede al

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-07 Thread s. keeling
David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lahf_lm?!? Supports LAHF in 64 bit mode, which is the closest I could find on Thanks for your help. I guess this is an AMD (early) Celeron. :-) Still, anice machine if a little oddly laid

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/07/08 19:07, s. keeling wrote: David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lahf_lm?!? Supports LAHF in 64 bit mode, which is the closest I could find on Thanks for your help. I guess

[Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-10). It refused to boot on their AMD images (... detected i1586[sic] CPU.). This thing

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 23:13:08 +0200, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-10

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-06 23:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-10). It refused to boot on their AMD

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2008-07-06 23:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 23:13:08 +0200, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lahf_lm?!? Supports LAHF in 64 bit mode, which is the closest I could find on google. If you have that, I don't see why you wouldn't have lm as they should go together, AFAIK. With semprons you have to be careful if they'll

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2008, Haines Brown wrote: Michael, I wanted to put Debian on a new Thinkpad X61s, and to achieve that with minimal pain, I went with sidux. I created a USB-stick to install it, and it went as smooth as can be. I'm using the machine with wifi. All hitches were simply the result

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: In your opinion, am I right in my assessment that testing is more likely to be in an unusable state for longer than sid? (at least at the package, not system, level)? No, I don't think so. If a

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:04:48 +0100 Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many swear seem to swear by sidux, though its claim to turn unstable into a stable and reliable operating system for every-day usage seems at odds with common sense, especially given its own advice to avoid dist-upgrades

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:25:20 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you make something a bit more stable!? More testing?!! :oP Just go with testing - it's perfect. Agreed, I just like Ubuntu! :o) M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists |

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Michael C
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:04:48 +0100 Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many swear seem to swear by sidux, though its claim to turn unstable into a stable and reliable operating system for every-day usage seems at odds with common sense, especially given its

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:04:38 +0100 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:04:48 +0100 Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many swear seem to swear by sidux, though its claim to turn unstable into a stable and reliable operating system for every-day

Re: sidux + a word on Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Rico Secada
. The unstable isn't really unstable per say, but it just breaks from time to time because so many changes are added daily. From time to time the dependencies between packages doesn't fit and stuff breaks. I don't really see or find any need for Ubuntu or Sidux. On the contrary I find

Re: sidux + a word on Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:08 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The unstable isn't really unstable per say, but it just breaks from time to time because so many changes are added daily. From time to time the dependencies between packages doesn't fit and stuff breaks. As people

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:27:22 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:35:56 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The crucial bit that many miss is that new

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:46:26AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Both of you, thanks! Andrew Sackville-West wrote: In your opinion, am I right in my assessment that testing is more likely to be in an unusable state for longer than sid? (at least at the package,

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:16:19AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... I personally wouldn't run a testing system for regular use. I would run sid or stable (with backports as needed). Of course, YMMV. ... Interesting, when you put it like that it does make

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:34:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:09:26PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Contrast that with sid, bug fixes happen fast. It seems, in my limited experience, that serious bugs that get caught in sid rapidly disappear,

Re: sidux + a word on Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:03:52AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:08 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The unstable isn't really unstable per say, but it just breaks from time to time because so many changes are added daily. From time to time the

Re: sidux + a word on Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:03:52 -0400 Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:08 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The unstable isn't really unstable per say, but it just breaks from time to time because so many changes are added daily. From time to

Re: sidux + a word on Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-15 18:35 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: excellent description. MY wife, whose box is running mostly-up-to-date sid, is annoyed because every few months some program changes it's icon or some bit of its interface layout... another aspect of unstable. True. Probably stable

Re: sidux + a word on Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:02:13PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-04-15 18:35 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: excellent description. MY wife, whose box is running mostly-up-to-date sid, is annoyed because every few months some program changes it's icon or some bit of its interface

sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Michael C
Many swear seem to swear by sidux, though its claim to turn unstable into a stable and reliable operating system for every-day usage seems at odds with common sense, especially given its own advice to avoid dist-upgrades in the middle of serious work because any package in sid can break at any

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Haines Brown
Michael, I wanted to put Debian on a new Thinkpad X61s, and to achieve that with minimal pain, I went with sidux. I created a USB-stick to install it, and it went as smooth as can be. I'm using the machine with wifi. All hitches were simply the result of my ignorance. The applications I've

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Michael C
Haines Brown wrote: Michael, I wanted to put Debian on a new Thinkpad X61s, and to achieve that with minimal pain, I went with sidux. I created a USB-stick to install it, and it went as smooth as can be. I'm using the machine with wifi. All hitches were simply the result of my ignorance

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:29:19PM +0100, Michael C wrote: Haines Brown wrote: Michael, I wanted to put Debian on a new Thinkpad X61s, and to achieve that with minimal pain, I went with sidux. I created a USB-stick to install it, and it went as smooth as can be. I'm using the machine

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new bug reports for 10 days (I think). Or 5 days (urgency=medium in changelog). Or 2 days (urgency=high). Or 1 day if it's a bad enough problem

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new bug reports for 10 days (I think). Or 5 days (urgency=medium in changelog). Or 2

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Michael C
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:29:19PM +0100, Michael C wrote: Haines Brown wrote: Michael, I wanted to put Debian on a new Thinkpad X61s, and to achieve that with minimal pain, I went with sidux. I created a USB-stick to install it, and it went as smooth

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread s. keeling
Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm obviously never going to get a considered, impartial appraisal from their forum and IRC channel, so has anyone here tried sidux only to find that Testing was better suited to their desktop needs? I've never run Sid. I do support a user who wants to play

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:09:26PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Contrast that with sid, bug fixes happen fast. It seems, in my limited experience, that serious bugs that get caught in sid rapidly disappear, sometimes within hours. Sure there's more churn and potentially more

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new bug reports for 10 days (I think). Or 5 days

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:35:56 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new

Re: Needs help with Sidux install

2007-08-18 Thread eklektik
- Original Message From: Roby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:37:14 PM Subject: Re: Needs help with Sidux install Hello, I have a unique problem involving sidux. I already tried to get help from sidux users from thier forum

Needs help with Sidux install

2007-08-17 Thread eklektik
Hello, I have a unique problem involving sidux. I already tried to get help from sidux users from thier forum but no one could help me. This is why I am trying my chances here. The problem: When I run the live cd it takes about 3 to 4 minutes to output a long text on the screen and after

Re: Needs help with Sidux install

2007-08-17 Thread Roby
eklektik wrote: Hello, I have a unique problem involving sidux. I already tried to get help from sidux users from thier forum but no one could help me. This is why I am trying my chances here. The problem: When I run the live cd it takes about 3 to 4 minutes to output a long text