On 2/29/08, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. > After > suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable > package > management, I'm BACK!!! > > Boy did I miss you guys . . . > > So I ran the 4.0 r3 netinst, and just for giggles ran an apt-get update and > apt-get upgrade. Nothing needed, but cool. > > Looking at sources.list, it appears we now use distribution names, such as > etch, > instead of stable and testing and unstable to name the hierarchies? Is this > correct? > > The Debian Installed didn't pickup the built-in sound card on my Dell XPS > 200. > No surprise there - neither did Suse/SLED. > > I'm on a jihad to rid my life of Windows. I converted my laptop some time > ago, > and then deleted the windows vista partition about a month ago. Now it's > time > for my desktop. I need some guidance: > > 1. Who would like to help me with the Sound Card issue? We can do it via > email > offline from this list. I've never been really good with loading modules and > drivers . . . > > 2. What to do about sync'ing with my Treo 750 (running windows mobile 6). > I'd > like for gmail/google calendar to be my authority, and use imap on my laptop > and > desktop (evolution - any other suggestions?), but how do we deal with > sync'ing, > especially contacts, to the Treo/WinMobile? > > 3. Windows emulation. My parents will visit in 2.5 weeks and will want > Pretty > Good Solitaire because it has a game called Thirteen Packs in it that is an > old > family favorite. > > 4. I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server - I use Dragon Naturally > Speaking to do speech to text conversion of meetings that I record on my > Olympus > pocket recorder. Unless you have a better idea . . . > > Thanks in advance - I'm so glad to be back. > > Doug > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Hey, Welcome back! I'm not sure when the change to dist names instead of stable etc was made, (the old way still works btw) but I believe it is to help prevent unexpected dist-upgrades when stable is moved on. Windows emulation/compatibility wise: being gone for so long you might find that wine has caught up a little and may be able to run some of the apps you're wanting. 'Most everything else will run in a vm. I haven't tried tackling any of the other issues, I've never come up against them and wouldn't want to lead you astray. Hopefully someone else can help you out. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
