Marty, OK, that's true, I shouldn't run "testing", since it's a bit demanding to maintain upgrades on an enough regular basis when changes are so frequent. It demands for almost daily hands-on-the-system in a way I haven't got time for. That is, when etch goes stable I'll probably stick to it; these kernels now have about enough hardware support to satisfiy most of everyday needs.
I am a half-year newbie on Debian, which is also my only liunuix experience so far, though very encouraging and exciting. It takes some time, though, to detect and get aware of the tremendous amount of tools that are available. It has been, for example, very satisfying to rediscover text manipulating tools like grep and sed and many others that invites to write powerful scripts in a way that I haven't ever dreamed of using Windows, where all such things seems to be abandoned and/or hidden for normal users since the DOS line editors were forgotten during the development of gui systems. I feel like having wasted years of my life cutting-and-pasting texts that would have been suited for automated processing with the right tools (discovered them ported to Windows also, but nobody in the winworld has ever revealed that, or did I miss something?). And not to mention, Imagemagick! Is there a Windows version? (Since Linux is blacklisted on my enterprise network (reason ignorance)). Maybe I cannot in the long run even resist to learn Emacs! Tore P.S. My problem is resolved by now, just by removing a silly (probably) lack of permission setting by means of reconfiguring debconf (find a better explanation in postings here by Olafur). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
