On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Mandrake 7.2.
All I'll say about mandrake is that we have a mandrake box at work and
when you run printtool the cdrom ejects.
I've been running Mandrake for a while (2 years?) now .. and it seems
fine, its Dedrat really with the KDE desktop and a things
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:33:57 +, Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On or about Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:29:18AM -0500, Dave Cross typed:
So I'm looking for advice on the best distro to use.
What are you planning to do on the box?
It'll be purely for home use, so:
* Hacking
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Go for it. Give it your best shot.
Mandrake 7.2.
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On or about Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:39:47AM -0500, Dave Cross typed:
It'll be purely for home use, so:
I'd use Debian 'cos I like it. Downside: latest versions of stuff
aren't usually available as packages. Upside: doesn't mess you about
the way the Windowsy distributions (RH, SuSE) do.
R
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:29:18AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
So I'm looking for advice on the best distro to use. Bear in mind that
the existing box will currently become a firewall/proxy box so I'll
do all the paranoid security stuff on there.
Go for it. Give it your best shot.
Let battle
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:02:01PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:58:41PM +, Richard Clamp typed:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:44:42PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
I'd use Debian 'cos I like it. Downside: latest versions of stuff
aren't usually
What I do:
For a workstation, Mandrake.
For a server, Slackware.
Once you've done the install forget that rpm existed and do everything
from source.
Red
* at 19/01 16:12 + Redvers Davies said:
All I'll say about mandrake is that we have a mandrake box at work and
when you run printtool the cdrom ejects.
You couldn't do an strace on that so we see what causes that could you?
I would have thought a hardware conflict would be the most
Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* at 19/01 14:44 + Dave Hodgkinson said:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Go for it. Give it your best shot.
Mandrake 7.2.
All I'll say about mandrake is that we have a mandrake box at work and
when you run printtool the cdrom
* at 19/01 16:33 - Robert Shiels said:
What are you planning to do on the box?
It'll be purely for home use, so:
* Hacking perl
* Prototyping web sites
* Playing with new toys like AxKit and Camelot
* Write
* Surf the web
* Read mail
* Play the occasional game
*
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:33:40 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What are you planning to do on the box?
It'll be purely for home use, so:
* Hacking perl
* Prototyping web sites
* Playing with new toys like AxKit and Camelot
* Write
* Surf the web
*
Seriously, my current machine is a PentiumPro 200 Mhz and that's
getting so frustrating that I knew I needed a new machine and I
always buy the fastest I can so it will last as long as possible.
Was it a self-congratulations pressie for the publication of your book.
From: "Michael Stevens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, of course, there's the obvious downside of following the unstable
branch of anything...
Except with Debian in my four years of using unstable I haven't had a single
(serious) problem. The times when they've occasionally messed up dependencies
I've
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