Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-16 Thread Heracles
marty wrote: This brings up and interesting point and I'm not trying to start any distro religious wars but might it not be a bad idea to have our own "official distro advocates/evangelists" Maybe someone for each distro (well most of the more prominent ones anyway) in an identifying

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-16 Thread Terry Collins
marty wrote: ...snipp. ok... hands up who **doesn't** want to wear a debian t-shirt... anyone... ?? anyone... ?? You want ME, with my figure, to wear a t-shirt for Debian when they have just released a distro called Spud^h^h^h^hPotatao? No way Jose! {:-). -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-16 Thread Terry Collins
Roland Turner wrote: Heracles wrote: I tried Debian once (version 1.0 I think - it was on my Slackware CD back in about 93 or 4) and it was a pain to install. I have found SuSE much better. I admit that Debian MAY have improved a little over the last few years, but why wear a Debian

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-16 Thread Dan Treacy
ay, August 17, 2000 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released Roland Turner wrote: Heracles wrote: I tried Debian once (version 1.0 I think - it was on my Slackware CD back in about 93 or 4) and it was a pain to install. I have found SuSE much better. I admit tha

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread Dan Treacy
t; and compare what each had to say.. I realise The idea isn't perfect and could probably be worked on or tuned up but it was just a thought.. Dan. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Waugh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "SLUG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:26 P

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread marty
This brings up and interesting point and I'm not trying to start any distro religious wars but might it not be a bad idea to have our own "official distro advocates/evangelists" Maybe someone for each distro (well most of the more prominent ones anyway) in an identifying t-shirt or the like

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
Dan Treacy wrote: might it not be a bad idea to have our own "official distro advocates/evangelists" Maybe someone for each distro (well most of the more prominent ones anyway) in an identifying t-shirt or the like that can be available to "inform" the newbies as far as any specific distro

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
marty wrote: anyone... ?? bueller... ?? ROFL indeed. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- Ye shall be cursed to fall in love so easily, and yet be so cold of heart as never to express it. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread Dan Treacy
ROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released Dan Treacy wrote: might it not be a bad idea to have our own "official distro advocates/evangelists" Maybe someone for each distro (well most of the more prominent

Re: [Festies] Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
Dan Treacy wrote: Not quite as I had in mind but I think it will accomplish the same thing.. Only some people who might otherwise do the job might be put off by the having the give a talk idea.. Sorry, yeah - they're unrelated. You can be a silent advocate! :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-15 Thread jon
Say if someone wanted to know what the configuration of Debian was like compared to Slackware he/she might go to talk to both the Slackware "person" and the Debian "person" and compare what each had to say.. Or see who swung the hardest punch...:-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

[SLUG] debian 2.2 (potato) released

2000-08-14 Thread Angus Lees
or at least, probably has been by the time you read this reminder: even if you have an extremely fast link, downloading cd images from www.debian.org via http|ftp is NOT the best way. check cdimage.debian.org and wander through the questions it asks you. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux