Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Best is to use apt-search > > Apt-search sounds grand. Can someone enlighten me on this? apt-cache search pmud Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net

Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Best is to use apt-search Apt-search sounds grand. Can someone enlighten me on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install apt-search Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package apt-search [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-15 Thread Bastien Nocera
Olaf Grewe wrote: > > Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Power management exists in the kernel, supported by the user space PMU > > daemon (pmud) that's available in unstable (though it should install fine > > on a stable system). > > > > So, why is it then, that I don't get a result, if I search the

Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Power management exists in the kernel, supported by the user space PMU > > daemon (pmud) that's available in unstable (though it should install fine > > on a stable system). > > > > So, why is it then, that I don't get a result, if I search the debian > package list at debian.org for pmu (des

Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-15 Thread Olaf Grewe
Michael Schmitz wrote: > Power management exists in the kernel, supported by the user space PMU > daemon (pmud) that's available in unstable (though it should install fine > on a stable system). > So, why is it then, that I don't get a result, if I search the debian package list at debian.org fo

Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
Could you wrap the text in e-mail please? Aside from the inconvenience of wrapping your lines manually in order to quote on reply, not all mail transfer agents may accept long lines. > I used to run LinuxPPC on my Lombard laptop, now I am running OS X PB, > which is better than the "classic" MacOS

RE: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-15 Thread Knapp, Robert \(CAP, CMC\)
--Original Message- From: Bruce Sturgen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:44 AM To: Debian Ppc List Subject: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions I used to run LinuxPPC on my Lombard laptop, now I am running OS X PB, which is better than the "clas

Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

2000-12-15 Thread Bruce Sturgen
I used to run LinuxPPC on my Lombard laptop, now I am running OS X PB, which is better than the "classic" MacOS, but still chains me to a pretty much unchangeable system (OTOH, LinuxPPC had/has a nasty habit of using what appears to be non-standard directory structures). However, there were 2 co