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
When I got home last night there were two big boxes from Dell waiting
in the middle of the lounge. This is my new 1400 Mhz Pentium IV,
256 Mb Turbo Bastard Nutter machine.
One of the (many) advantages of having a new box is that I'll be able
to do a completely fresh Linux install for the first
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 03:44:42PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
I'd use Debian 'cos I like it. Downside: latest versions of stuff
aren't usually available as packages.
Untrue, if you're following the testing/unstable branch and have sufficient
bandwidth that is.
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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
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 likely cause
there...
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
Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*
*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 commence.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
Apart from the games perhaps, I'm just wondering what a PIV1400Mhz will do
that a PII350 wouldn't :-) What was your inner justification for getting
such a monster machine Dave?
Some people buy Ferraris.
/J\
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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
* Read mail
* 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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