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Behalf Of Tom Rauschenbach
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 7:41 PM
To: Charles Farinella
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New distribution?
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> It's time for me to rebuild my system, and I
Randy Edwards said:
> Now that the license issues have been cleared up, the new testing
> version of Debian ("Woody") officially has KDE2 in it.
Slight correction to both Randy and my earlier post - KDE2 used to be in Woody
(when it was in unstable), and is still in unstable, but is not in Woo
> I'd try Debian, but have not found one with KDE2.
Now that the license issues have been cleared up, the new testing
version of Debian ("Woody") officially has KDE2 in it.
If you add the line:
deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ potato kde kde2 contrib rkrusty
into your /etc/apt/sources.list fi
They've solved the KDE/Debian issue (the legality of distributing KDE (GPL)
and QT (QPL) together, since there we license conflicts, not because QT was
not open-source). KDE 2 is in unstable now, so it will be in the next stable.
Someone's got the KDE stuff for potato, outside of Debian.
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> I know that everyone is jazzed about Debian, but I'm a little
> concerned about the install.
Ben isn't jazzed. :-)
Seriously, the install isn't that bad -- as long as you don't expect to
have everything working perfectly in an hour or so. Debian requires some
tweaking and playing to get
Charles Farinella wrote:
> I know that everyone is jazzed about Debian, but I'm a little
> concerned about the install.
If you want to try out Debian, but don't want to brave the install,
check out Storm Linux. It's Debian with a slick installer. After the
install, just change your apt-sources a
For the last year I have been working on making custom distros; at work I
have needed to come up with a way to install a _very_ custom linux on
special hardware. I start with the basic RedHat (6.2) install CD and
hack it up to suit my needs.
I have come up with 2 methods:
1) Delete the RedHat
Charles Farinella wrote:
> It's time for me to rebuild my system, and I'd like to try a non-RedHat
> distro
I've used several different distributions (Yggdrasil, Slackware,
Caldera, TurboLinux, RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Suse come to mind). Which
one you use is a matter of taste. Often, I'll us
>isn't practical. I'd try Debian, but have not found one with KDE2.
No, they haven't put it into Potato. Maybe they will solve the kde/debian war
after a while, and it will be in the next stable distribution.
--Ferenc
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:46:51PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> pretty package...) All things being equal, this beats the pants off of
> downloading Slackware one disk at a time over the ol' 14.4 modem. From a
Been there, done that! Ahhh... nostalgia.
Anybody download Doom shareware on 4
Well... Slackware is the oldest extant distribution. It's really kinda
nifty -- brings you back to the "old days" of Linux, though I admit I
haven't used it since 3.3 or 3.4. I used to be a huge Slackware fan, but,
slowly, came about to the dark side of package managers (Slackware's
"packages"
I have used SuSE for a couple of years and prefer it to the others. There
are several similarities to Tru64 Unix which is what I work on at work.
Charles Farinella wrote:
> It's time for me to rebuild my system, and I'd like to try a non-RedHat
> distro. I know that everyone is jazzed about Debi
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> It's time for me to rebuild my system, and I'd like to try a non-RedHat
> distro. I know that everyone is jazzed about Debian, but I'm a little
> concerned about the install.
>
> I'm kind of intrigued by Slackware, and wondered if folks might have some
> opinion
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