Book Recommendations...

2000-10-22 Thread MarkEmmanuel
Hi all!!! I installed Debian Linux on my Macintosh and I was looking for book recommendations for a beginner user. The most I know about Linux/Unix are the basic commands like ls, chmod, and cd. (I love shell accounts...) I'm getting really tired of switching to MacOS so I can use the Internet as

Re: open office

2000-10-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Momchil Velikov wrote: > > "Adam" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Adam> Do you know where I can find the "long version" of what you've > Adam> "simply stated" above, so I can convince him to get the patch > Adam> into Kerberos- and maybe release it for a couple of new > Ada

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-22 Thread Sergio Brandano
>debian ppc is slow compared to debian i386 >what do u think about...? I think you are wrong. I can not give any number, but I perceive my PowerBook G3 1999 400Mhz, as fast as, if not faster than, a new Athlon 800 with fast memory. If you have any benchmark at hand, let me have it and I will

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> debian ppc is slow compared to debian i386 So what? Debian/i386 is slow compared to Debian/alpha I guess. Debian on a 386 sure is hell of a lot slower than Debian on my G3/400. What exactly is your point here? If you're interested (and not just trolling) I can give you some CPU benchmarks run

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 09:13:08PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > debian ppc is slow compared to debian i386 > > So what? Debian/i386 is slow compared to Debian/alpha I guess. Debian on a > 386 sure is hell of a lot slower than Debian on my G3/400. What exactly is > your point here? > > If yo

mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-22 Thread Keun-woo Ryu
I can't use mixer on my ibook. Is there anyone uses mixer on dmasound? Can I control volumn? updong:~# uname -a Linux updong 2.2.17pre10-ben3 #2 Fri Jul 21 00:42:09 PDT 2000 ppc unknown updong:~# lsmod Module Size Used by dmasound 30176 0 (unused) updong:~# dme

debuild problems (too many levels of symbolic links)

2000-10-22 Thread John Palkovic
Hello, I have debian 2.2 installed on a powermac (powercenter pro w/G3 upgrade card). I find that 'debuild' fails to build a lot of source packages. The error seems to occur whenever the debian/rules script invokes 'test'. Here is an error I see when I attempt to build gawk. I have truncated the o