[freenet-support] Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread [Anon] Anon User
-BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext It sounds like a stupid question perhaps, but I'm currently on windows and am giving serious thought and study time to at minimum switching to a windows - - linux dual boot arrangment. So far I'm leaning toward either Debian or

[freenet-support] 2 questions - config?

2005-08-26 Thread maxigas
hi! i'm a linux/freenet newbie (i had freenet for 2 weeks on XP previously). 2 questions 1. i ran ebuild /usr/portage/net-p2p/freenet/freenet-0.5.2.1-r8.ebuild config and it downloaded all the files via HTTP and then ended with the usual gratulations BUT haven't asked me anything else

[freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread daniele
I think it is indifferent. Personally I have Debian. But any other distro would support Java, and Freenet needs only java. [Anon] Anon User ha scritto: -BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext It sounds like a stupid question perhaps, but I'm currently on windows

[freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread Alex R. Mosteo
daniele wrote: I think it is indifferent. Personally I have Debian. But any other distro would support Java, and Freenet needs only java. Yep, Mandrake 10.1 here and no worries. [Anon] Anon User ha scritto: -BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext It sounds

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Exon
Debian doesn't include Sun Java - you have to either use Kaffee or some other free implementation, or use the java-package package to re-package the Sun packages into .deb packages. java-package is in contrib, which Debian won't use by default. Overall, it's a little hairy and confusing -

[freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread daniele
Well, maybe I'm too much mswin-like in my approach to app installation... I downloaded Java 1.5 for linux from Java.com and executed it!!! At the end, I had java installed... magic? I didn't ever know there were a contrib package of java... didn't ever searched it. (while I know of koffee

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Exon
daniele wrote: Well, maybe I'm too much mswin-like in my approach to app installation... I downloaded Java 1.5 for linux from Java.com and executed it!!! At the end, I had java installed... magic? I didn't ever know there were a contrib package of java... didn't ever searched it. And I'm

[freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread daniele
The sun installer will install java where you say it to install. I've installed it in /opt/java. Then symbolic linked the executables I needs in /usr/local/bin. A new version of java? I'll remove the directory /opt/java and redo the installation. If the internal tree of the java distribution is

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Exon
daniele wrote: The sun installer will install java where you say it to install. I've installed it in /opt/java. Then symbolic linked the executables I needs in /usr/local/bin. A new version of java? I'll remove the directory /opt/java and redo the installation. If the internal tree of the java

Re: [freenet-support] Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread maxigas
hi! i am also a linux/freenet newbie who tried freenet before on windows. i found it all so conforting that Gentoo Linux has BOTH Sun/Blackdown Java AND Freenet amongst the distro 'packages', so after you have a running linux box (with a permament IP address!) you just have to type:

[freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread Bob
[Anon] Anon User [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext It sounds like a stupid question perhaps, but I'm currently on windows and am giving serious thought and study time to at minimum switching to a windows - - linux dual boot

[freenet-support] Re: 2 questions - config?

2005-08-26 Thread Bob
maxigas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi! i'm a linux/freenet newbie (i had freenet for 2 weeks on XP previously). 2 questions 1. i ran ebuild /usr/portage/net-p2p/freenet/freenet-0.5.2.1-r8.ebuild config and it downloaded all the files via HTTP and then ended with the usual

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Which Linux for freenet?

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Exon
Bob wrote: I'd recommend looking at Ubuntu (or kUbuntu which uses KDE and is therefore a bit more windows-like), Fedora Core and similar. As far as Java goes, Ubuntu doesn't come with Java out of the box, although there are at least some fairly clear instructions for installing it: