I am taking the liberty of sending you a copy of my 0.02 version of a not quite newbies' guide to running a ``mixed" Debian system.
Following is the cover message which I sent to the 25+ plus people who e- mailed me asking for a copy: [forwarded message begins] I have already had some kind comments on the ``How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide''. Thank you. Less than kind comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvements, etc, etc all welcome. <Banging head hard on keyboard>. A kind offer to host the draft on a website reminded me that my ISP does offer Web space which I had in fact been using to back up the webmaster of our church web site (see plug below). There is enough space for two copies of a 12K document. The URL is http://members.home.com/brucemiller1 and I hope to have the post mounted by Friday morning. In the meantime, the text is attached. I will also post this message on the Libranet message list as soon as I get the new web page mounted. When it is more finished, I would like to post this document to a Web site where it could be more readily found. Does anyone know if www.debian.org have an area for informal contributions? The guide is not formal enough to be a HOW-TO or even a mini-HOW-TO. Does anyone read www.debianplanet.org ? or www.linuxnewbie.org ? On the appearance of the guide: This was the first document that I have drafted in AbiWord. As a work in progress, AbiWord has no help files. The help documentation on the abisource Web site covers only the most basic functions (everyone knows how to open files or change fonts; why not put in something useful like how to insert a Web hyperlink ?? :-( The HTML version of the guide is a straight ``Save as HTML'' from AbiWord's editing screen. I am concentrating at the moment on content and will put the text into better HTML once the content is nailed down. Off-topic plug: Most of the web page space is given to two MP3s from the Choir of St Matthew's Anglican Church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The musical tradition of the Anglican Church (the Episcopalian Church in the USA) is not everyone's favourite, especially as it is based on choirs of men and boys (boy sopranos, or ``trebles'' as they are known) but it is a tradition that is centuries old and very beautiful. Our small central Ottawa parish has a 45-year history of one of the finest church choirs in North America. In the four years since our youngest son joined the choir, two former Head Choristers have had soloist debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The CD from which these two MP3s were drawn was a project to support the CAD 500,000 (US$ 350,000) project to restore the church organ. The restoration is scheduled to be completed at the end of November 2001. [forwarded message ends] On 25 Oct 2001 at 20:20, Tom Allison wrote: Date forwarded: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:35:05 -0400 (EDT) Date sent: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:20:42 -0400 From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Kwork/Koffice Forwarded by: debian-kde@lists.debian.org <snip> How do I do that? I vaguely remember something about a command line to apt-get that will point a package/package mask to a specific distro (stable/woody/testing/sid/...) but I didn't see anything in 'man apt-get'
