to do anything and I am on the same position since
> last 9 years with only few improvements.
> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN.
> I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and
> experienced than me and having good know
On Wednesday, 31 Oct 2018 at 09:39, Dan Ritter wrote:
> It's not always the course or the professor that fails a
> student.
You can lead a horse to water...
--
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian 9.5
Hi.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:41:48AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:38:53PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:30:12PM +, Curt wrote:
> > > On 2018-10-31, songbird wrote:
> > > > P M wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hey, this is Piyush
On 2018-10-31, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:30:12PM +, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-10-31, songbird wrote:
>> > P M wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hey, this is Piyush M.
>> >> I am a computer science graduate from 2015.
>> >
>> > you were ripped off if you paid for that and the
>> >
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:38:53PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:30:12PM +, Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-10-31, songbird wrote:
> > > P M wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hey, this is Piyush M.
> > >> I am a computer science graduate from 2015.
> > >
> > > you were ripped off
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:17:13AM -0400, songbird wrote:
> >
> > The reason for this mail is, I am not really very expert or well versed in
> > any computer language or any field of computer.
>
> my statement above is based upon this sentence...
I went to a pretty good CS undergraduate
Hi.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:30:12PM +, Curt wrote:
> On 2018-10-31, songbird wrote:
> > P M wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, this is Piyush M.
> >> I am a computer science graduate from 2015.
> >
> > you were ripped off if you paid for that and the
> > institution which gave you that degree
On 2018-10-31, songbird wrote:
> P M wrote:
>
>> Hey, this is Piyush M.
>> I am a computer science graduate from 2015.
>
> you were ripped off if you paid for that and the
> institution which gave you that degree should be
> discredited.
>
Are you familiar with the chemical properties of lemon
P M wrote:
> Hey, this is Piyush M.
> I am a computer science graduate from 2015.
you were ripped off if you paid for that and the
institution which gave you that degree should be
discredited.
> It was 2009-10 when first time I heard about Linux. Although in my area
> there was only
On 31.10.18 11:49, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote:
> > Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic
> > and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is.
>
> You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all
On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote:
Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic
and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is.
You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all
and your freedom to change anything. Even Microsoft is
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Curt wrote:
On 2018-10-30, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote:
People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the
thing is hard.
for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect."
I did and I think Dunning and Kruger are
wrote:
> > > >> On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote:
> > > >>>> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I
> > > >>>> NEVER USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far
> > > >>>&g
Mengarini wrote:
> > >>>> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER
> > >>>> USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more
> > >>>> knowledgeable and experienced than me and having good knowledge
> > >&
On Tuesday 30 October 2018 12:55:14 Jude DaShiell wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:45:21
> > From: Gene Heskett
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Help me Linux
> > Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 201
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:45:21
> From: Gene Heskett
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Help me Linux
> Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:46:11 + (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Tuesday
Y. I NEVER
> >>>> USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more
> >>>> knowledgeable and experienced than me and having good knowledge
> >>>> of Linux. Please help me!
> >>
> >> First, the entire notion of an email l
On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 04:17:05 AM P M wrote:
> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN.
> I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and
> experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me!
Sort of on a
On 2018-10-30, Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
>> People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the
>> thing is hard.
>
> for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect."
>
I did and I think Dunning and Kruger are probably the best examples
than me and having good knowledge of
Linux. Please help me!
First, the entire notion of an email list is to have a searchable
problem which leads to a "SOLVED" resolution. Your subject line needs
to be relevant to your problem for others after you to find it.
Otherwise every plea fo
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote:
People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the
thing is hard.
for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect."
--
Felmon Davis
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> On 10/30/18 3:17 AM, P M wrote:
> > Hey, this is Piyush M.
> >
> > I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED
> > DEBIAN.
>
> I suggest you try again, and take notes if necessary, and ask this list
> when you
ienced than me and having good knowledge of
> >> Linux. Please help me!
>
> First, the entire notion of an email list is to have a searchable
> problem which leads to a "SOLVED" resolution. Your subject line needs
> to be relevant to your problem for others after you to fi
On 10/30/18 3:17 AM, P M wrote:
> Hey, this is Piyush M.
>
> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED
> DEBIAN.
I suggest you try again, and take notes if necessary, and ask this list
when you run into an issue, making sure to be specific about what errors
are
On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote:
I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN.
I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and
experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me!
First, the entire notion
Pardon my jumping in late and piggybacking on Will's message.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 06:16:17AM -0700, Will Mengarini wrote:
> > [...] there is no any alternative available in Linux
> > for Corel draw [or] video editing software.
>
> I wonder whether some of the problems you use those
> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN.
> I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and
> experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me!
Studying <http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
On 10/30/2018 06:54 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
[snip]
People who are used to doing things in a certain way tend to
believe that it is the only way, or the best way.
*ROFL* !
I've seen a tag line saying "Universal advice: Don't do that."
ion since
> last 9 years with only few improvements.
We all start at zero.
> I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and
> experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me!
> suggest me what can I do? how should I proceed? how should I go furth
as
> unable to do anything and I am on the same position since last 9 years with
> only few improvements.
> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN.
> I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and experienced
> than me and having good
On 10/30/2018 9:17 AM, P M wrote:
> Hey, this is Piyush M.
> I am a computer science graduate from 2015.
> It was 2009-10 when first time I heard about Linux. Although in my area
> there was only Microsoft but I managed to download Linux. My first Linux
> was ubuntu. I was very happy to see its
believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and
experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me!
suggest me what can I do? how should I proceed? how should I go further in
the field of Linux? and what can I do with and how to go further in python?
Here
Sorry, been away for a bit and only just managing to catch up (hence
the reply to a 10-day-old post).
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Lots of folks like Ubuntu.
I've heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu, though I've never
used it. I've heard two bad(?) things about Ubuntu. One
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:04:32AM -0500, Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
Well, you-all steered me right :-) for my needs - thank you. I feel so
much cleaner now that there is no Windoze system in the house.
If one does their homework and has
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:12:10AM -0500, Chinook wrote:
I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select
anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file as
Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was in
thierry wrote:
Well, the checksum staff is only for futur update. It wont update if you
don,t givze it the sum in some ways I have forgoten, but you can get
that thru man I believe. But did you try, and retry... dpkg-reconfigure
with the GUI not running, to set different video driver until
Kelly Clowers wrote:
quiet splash are options that are passed from grub to the kernel, but
I just tried them and realized that although they decrease the verbosity
they don't eliminate it. I *think* to eliminate it you need special packages
and a kernel patch and recompile. I don't think it is
Chinook wrote:
I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select
anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file
as Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was
in a pile of it. There is no more GUI (neither gdm or xdm will come
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select
anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file
as Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was
in a pile of it. There is no more GUI (neither gdm or
On 12/24/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select
anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file
as Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:12:10AM -0500, Chinook wrote:
I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select
anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file as
Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was in a
pile of it. There is
Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
snip
She who must be obeyed is happy with her Thunderbird, Firefox and card
games, but not overjoyed with my Gaelic naming scheme.
Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing hearts that she plays with her
uum
I also forgot to ask ...
(I know you're thinking won't this old fart go to bed)
When I installed some more packages with Synaptic it said two potential
updates were not selected (can't remember the exact wording). Looking
at the two in the list, they were kernel-image-2.4.27.2-386 and mdadm,
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:25:56AM -0500, Chinook wrote:
Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
snip
Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing hearts that she plays with her
uum friends*. I thought I found it as part of a package called
floater
Andrei Popescu: I can't find a splashy package - at least in Synaptic.
It's in experimental ;) (i'm running unstable)
3) How do I put the monitor (only) to sleep after say 10 minutes of
inactivity. On my Mac I do this with an Energy Saver setting and also
did it on the PC when it had
Chinook wrote:
Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
snip
She who must be obeyed is happy with her Thunderbird, Firefox and card
games, but not overjoyed with my Gaelic naming scheme.
Whoops, spoke too soon. She is missing hearts that she plays
On 12/23/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
There are three little items I have not been able to resolve yet though,
and would appreciate any pointers:
1) When booting up, can the keyboard Num Lock
Andrew M.A. Cater spoketh:
Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top.
One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9
years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at.
Mike McCarty spoketh:
Google is your friend. Searching for
Chinook wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater spoketh:
Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top.
One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9
years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at.
Mike McCarty spoketh:
Google is your friend.
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:54:14PM -0500, Chinook wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater spoketh:
Linux hearts card game on Google shows two good entries at the top.
One appears to be a project started this year: the other is about 9
years old on freshmeat. Those might be a good start to look at.
I had
On 12/23/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
look for a line like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro
and make it more like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro quiet splash
That's certainly
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:04:32AM -0500, Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
She who must be obeyed is happy with her Thunderbird, Firefox and card
games, but not overjoyed with my Gaelic naming scheme. I'm not ready to
put up GNUstep yet, but I am
On 12/22/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]Well, you-all steered me right :-) for my needs - thank you.I feel somuch cleaner now that there is no Windoze system in the house.If one does their homework and has decent supported hardware
One list issue also that I hate to bring up given the Unsubscribe
thread :-) and I did send the question to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
but have received no answer (though two days is not unreasonable :-). I
found this list on GMANE also so I can follow it and
On Dec 20 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
I disagree. Simply put if someone cannot bother to put some
effort into making their writing moderately comprehensible why should
I be expected to put any effort into decyphering it?
100% agreed, let alone the fact that the list may have a lot of
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:44:27AM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
On Dec 20 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
I disagree. Simply put if someone cannot bother to put some
effort into making their writing moderately comprehensible why should
I be expected to put any effort into decyphering it?
snip
Once you've tried these for a week or so, then slide to a Debian
install. Debian stable will work well - but feels very old
to some people.
snip
I prefer Debian stable. I just want my laptop to work without having to spend
time trying to figure out problems that pop into unstable and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:44:27AM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
Ah! I see. We should have a debian-user-leet list. For native
leet-speakers, of course.
now that's just darn funny.
A
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:31:19PM -0500, Frye, David CIV wrote:
snip
Once you've tried these for a week or so, then slide to a Debian
install. Debian stable will work well - but feels very old
to some people.
snip
I prefer Debian stable. I just want my laptop to work without having to
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1100, Arafangion wrote:
Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the test
should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial distributions, that
How is being willing to pay for something because you feel you have to
(for
On Thursday 22 December 2005 15:13, CaT wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1100, Arafangion wrote:
Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the
test should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial
distributions, that
How is being willing to pay
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
Well, you-all steered me right :-) for my needs - thank you. I feel so
much cleaner now that there is no Windoze system in the house.
If one does their homework and has decent supported hardware, it's a
piece of cake :-P Though
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:01, CaT wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my
preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
right this moment.) Oh well.
I didn't like
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Arafangion wrote:
Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the test
should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial distributions, that
bundle nice stuff out of the box.
the folks willing to pay real $$$ will usually dictate what the
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Never take the advice of people who use spellings like
kewel, n33t, and abbreviate you to u, etc.
Could you please explain me why? Just to know
And what does kewel means? :-P
am I very ignorant?
No. They are.
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Never take the advice of people who use spellings like
kewel, n33t, and abbreviate you to u, etc.
Could you please explain me why? Just to know
And what does kewel means? :-P
am
On 12/20/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:Never take the advice of people who use spellings likekewel, n33t, and abbreviate you to u, etc.
Could you please explain me why? Just to knowAnd what
Aaron Stromas wrote:
On 12/20/05, *Kent West* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Never take the advice of people who
Aaron Stromas wrote:
On 12/20/05, *Kent West* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've known plenty of kids[1] who speak leet who are
[ otherwise ;-) ] very smart.
choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public
forum doesn't strike me as
Kent West wrote:
Aaron Stromas wrote:
On 12/20/05, *Kent West* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've known plenty of kids[1] who speak leet who are
[ otherwise ;-) ] very smart.
choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public
forum doesn't
Arafangion wrote:
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:01, CaT wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my
preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
Kent West wrote:
Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable
language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold
the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his
input as unworthy of attention.
I disagree. Simply put if
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 08:25 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable
language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold
the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:25, Steve Lamb wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable
language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold
the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:25, Steve Lamb wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in
understandable language; but on the other hand, I think that
whereas it's okay to scold the offender slightly, we should not
knee-jerk react by marking his input as
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM
NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that
means), but rather which might better facilitate a couple personal
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I
AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that
means), but rather which might better
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
am trying to decide which Linux to install.
1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure
OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she says she has to have her
Mike McCarty wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
am trying to decide which Linux to install.
1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure
OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she
On 12/19/05, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote:am trying to decide which Linux to install.1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication.I'm sureOpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
and Firefox for communications.Oh
Mike McCarty wrote:
Chinook wrote:
...
Hmm, just looked this over. I hope it isn't overkill/too long/
confusing. I might point out that as far as *using* Linux, there's
very little difference between distros. It's in *system admin*
where they differ from each other, mostly. ...
Not at all
Sorry Mike - I left an l off the end of the link
I wrote the article:
http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.html
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Chinook wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Chinook wrote:
...
[snippy]
I wrote the article:
http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.htm
Hmm, browser couldn't find that URL...
[more snippy]
One possibility (and one I recommend, actually) is to get LiveCDs and
run off them for a while.
Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I
AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever
that means), but
Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
Oh, one piece of advice I forgot to mention:
Never take the advice of people who use spellings like
kewel, n33t, and abbreviate you to u, etc.
Could you please explain me why? Just to know
And what does kewel means? :-P
am I very ignorant?
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:27 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Wonderful test. It says I should be using Debian :-)
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Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I
AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever
Mike McCarty wrote:
Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that
I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to
install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have mypreferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
right this moment.) Oh well.--Kent
It says that because Debian doesn't have a preference or default.
It would claim that Debian doesn't have Gnome either.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my
preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
right this moment.) Oh well.
I didn't like the fact that there wasn't a 'Neither' or 'Other'
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM
NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that
means), but rather which
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM
NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that
means), but rather which might better facilitate a couple personal
general criteria.
Chinook wrote:
am trying to decide which Linux to install.
1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure
OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she says she has to have her
card games :))
2)
Chinook wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
am trying to decide which Linux to install.
Pretty much any distro will do the things you've specified; I don't
think these criteria will suffice for choosing a distro. You may have to
move to other criteria (such as the Freedom argument,
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM
NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that
means), but rather which might better facilitate a couple personal
Alvin Oga wrote:
if i understood correctly, the original question was dealing with
partitions ...
This is true. But if he's already installed (which he has) those
partitions are populated. Now, I'm not saying that the original poster is a
complete neophyte as to think the data would move
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
Alvin Oga wrote:
if i understood correctly, the original question was dealing with
partitions ...
This is true. But if he's already installed (which he has) those
partitions are populated. Now, I'm not saying that the original poster is a
Alvin Oga wrote:
given /home has the correct home data and is say 2GB on say /dev/hdaxxx
given /usr has the correct usr data and is say 10GB on say /dev/hdayyy
if as in the original reply, to simply swap the /home and /usr partition
You're making a false asumption. From the original
hi ya steve
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
Alvin Oga wrote:
given /home has the correct home data and is say 2GB on say /dev/hdaxxx
given /usr has the correct usr data and is say 10GB on say /dev/hdayyy
if as in the original reply, to simply swap the /home and /usr partition
Alvin Oga wrote:
yes and no .. depends on th point of view
and just for clarification ...
No, no point of view.
If I want to swap the mount point and all it's content between /usr
and /home.
both mount points and data is moved ...
No data is moved. You're presuming that he has them
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