RE: shared Debian hosting

Sheryl Cruz wrote: > We do actually offer managed debian hosting for some customers even > though we don't advertise it. What do you offer? I am looking for Debian 3.1, ssh access, CVS (client), and a complete Apache (1.33), MySQL (4.0), Perl (5.8), and mod_perl (1.29) hosting environment. > Th

Re: gpg, Releae.gpg, and Ubuntu...

hmm, well, I thought I had this licked, but I guess I was wrong. tried this: made a new ubuntu-keyring thusly: apt-get source ubuntu-keyring cd ubuntu-keyring/keyrings gpg --import < ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg gpg --export > ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg cd .. && dpkg-buildpackge ---rfakeroot -m"

Re: BIND 9 Question

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:40 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:31 pm, Glenn English wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:55 -0700, ke6isf wrote: > > > When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the > > > named.conf over, made a single adjustment (on Mandra

Re: Configuration error running su in unstable

I have met the same problem too. I am using debian sid. After upgrade, the problem is not solved. On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:39:56AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Since upgrading unstable a week or two ago, running su from a terminal > reports these errors: > > configuration error - unknown item 'QU

Re: BIND 9 Question

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:31 pm, Glenn English wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:55 -0700, ke6isf wrote: > > When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the named.conf > > over, made a single adjustment (on Mandrake, named.conf lives in /etc - > > in Debian, it lives in /etc/bind

Re: BIND 9 Question

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:55 -0700, ke6isf wrote: > When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the named.conf > over, made a single adjustment (on Mandrake, named.conf lives in /etc - in > Debian, it lives in /etc/bind), regen'ed my rndc.conf, and fired it up > with success - note the

Re: SoundMAX and ALSA problem - ASUS A7V8X module onboard card

On 10/13/05, *Ivan Paganini* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > I am struggling with a debian sarge installation on a ASUS A7V8X. > It uses a SoundMAX onboard sound card, and by no means I can put > it to work. It does not appear on lspci, or the ethernet card. >

Re: EXIM Anyone can help me ?

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 22:08 +0200, Sylvain MARTINS wrote: > Hello, > > I've a debian box with exim+amavis+spamcheck and all it's ok. > I can send and receive mail from over the world...buti can send > only from my debian box. > > I want to send mails from my network using my debian box and

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

--- Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you run alsaconf? > > Roger > alsaconf returns: modinfo: snd: no module by that name found modinfo: snd: no module by that name found modinfo: snd: no module by that name found Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded). Buildin

Re: subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello all, again. I am struggling with a debian sarge installation on a ASUS A7V8X. It uses a SoundMAX onboard sound card, and by no means I can put it to work. It does not appear on lspci, or the ethernet card. Then, I tried to use alsaconf, and it cannot find also. I tried the modules snd-via82x

Re: EXIM Anyone can help me ?

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 23:53 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On tirsdag 04 oktober 2005, 22:08, Sylvain MARTINS wrote: > > I want to send mails from my network using my debian box and it's ok > > if the recipient is local but not if recipient is non local :( > > > > i just want to authorize any ho

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

Bill Wohler wrote: > Try: > > aptitude install dwww > > and read the doc files from your browser. This does appear to do some > indexing on the man pages, but I don't think it does a full-text > indexing of the other files. Actually, I think it does. If you install swift++ and do a search i

Re: BIND 9 Question

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Timothy Spear wrote: > Hi all, >Quick question, I hope. I am migrating a data center from > RedHat/Suse/Mandrake to Debian (as the new single standard). When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the named.conf over, made a single adjustment (on Mandrake

IPv6 in sarge (2.4 and 2.6)

Hi! I have some machines running sarge, some with kernel 2.4 and others with 2.6. On 2.6 machines, the ipv6 module gets loaded on boot (I don't want it to, so I disable it in /etc/modprobe.conf/aliases), but on 2.4 machines it doesn't. I was wondering what makes ipv6 get loaded on 2.6 and no

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

Ahh! Stupid Internet deleted my E-Mail! Now, I have to do it again. Please, I really need this fixed: It's friving me mad. ppp0?  Must be pppoe.  That's a bit of a clue.  Too bad I don't knowanything about pppoe.  Surely you configured it yourself, though, at somepoint.Yes, I do use pppoeconf to co

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

On 10/12/05, Jeremy Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns "No such file or> > directory"--- marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> That's because you don't have a soundcard assigned > to ALSA - which is> what Gstreamer was telling you earlier, but it's> best to check

mp3 player/network

Hello: I have a home network, a win xp desktop, a win xp laptop, and 3 Debian desktops. Everything seems ok with the network. All boxes have internet access and can share files, etc. However, I cannot play mp3 files that reside on the windows desktop on the Debian boxes. Any ideas? I am using play

Re: BIND 9 Question

>Is my assumption correct that I cannot really use the base >Debian BIND configuration? You can extend it adding your own zones. >And can I assume that the modifications I make will be >protected on update/upgrade with Debian usual grace? Yes. But make your backups. Regards. -- Homepage : http

BIND 9 Question

Hi all, Quick question, I hope. I am migrating a data center from RedHat/Suse/Mandrake to Debian (as the new single standard). One of the things I have found is that Debian seems to pre-configure the BIND 9 Server for only home/small network situations as a primary name cache. Since I have t

Debian and webcams

I will need a webcam in a near future. I would like to know about successes and failures with different webcams. Are there models with official Linux drivers available? Does someone can give me some suggestions? Thanks, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

marc wrote: > Sorry for the cheesy question. > > Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm after > a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in > text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that I've contributed > to are important. The l

Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Rogério Brito wrote: > See what has happened with mutt after the muttng fork was created. See > the same thing with Debian adopting more and more the team > maintainership of packages after Ubuntu. I think that any implication that Ubuntu somehow led Debian toward more team maintenance of packages

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

Jim Lynch wrote: > For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that > directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured > out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser > or other means of indexing them, searching them and displayi

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Rogério Brito wrote: > The Ubuntu people are synchronizing their work with Debian all the time Ubuntu has a general policy of not sending patches back to Debian developers. They make their patches available on a website in lumps[1] of varying utility and expect Debian to go look at them and integr

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

> > > > 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns "No such file or > > directory" --- marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's because you don't have a soundcard assigned > to ALSA - which is > what Gstreamer was telling you earlier, but it's > best to check. > > Open the Control Centre/Sound & Mul

Re: IMAP and Squirelmail.

On 10/11/2005 4:30:17 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: >On (11/10/05 02:42), Chuck Payne wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I need to know what IMAP program is the best and easiest to set up so I >> can Squirrel mail set up. I see Cyrus is a bit of pain. >> >> Payne >> >> PS. Anyway web pages that you have that can

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 12 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote: > > > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > > > alone? > > > > because: > > e) they don't know how to provide patches/enhancement

Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Oct 12 2005, Carl Fink wrote: > One of the beauties of Free software is that one group can take the > software base, fork off their own project, and do it their way. And, then, merge back the good things to the original project, if that proves to be useful. See what has happened with mutt afte

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Oct 12 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote: > > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > > alone? > > because: > e) they don't know how to provide patches/enhancements/new-packages into >the main debian core Please, don't spread FUD

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:36:11PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > - it is commercialized, in my view, because they provide support > for and is NOT free > ( support for $$$ is a good thing > and if you don't like their support pkg, you can get >

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > > - it is NOT commercialized if you cannot buy the pre-packaged > > > CD's at the regular stores, but i could have and still would have > > > sworn i saw ubuntu at the local stores pa

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > - it is commercialized, in my view, because they provide support > > for and is NOT free > > Amazingly enough lots of places do that for many different programs. > Generally one being paid for support i

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

John Hasler wrote: > Gnus. He said news reader, not test editor. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+--

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

marc wrote: > I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in > text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that I've contributed > to are important. The less mouse use the better, but unless it's uber- > functional, I'd prefer to avoid a curses-bases usenet reader - may the > nix-gods

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Alvin Oga wrote: > - it is commercialized, in my view, because they provide support > for and is NOT free Amazingly enough lots of places do that for many different programs. Generally one being paid for support is good. > - it is NOT commercialized if you cannot buy th

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

Marc writes: > I welcome your suggestions, advice and experience. Gnus. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: startup file authoring question

Glenn English writes: > Does anybody know why startup scripts are always shell scripts? Do you mean an init script? I'd be very suspicious of any init script complex enough to justify the use of Perl. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

wanpipe and friends

Where are the drivers and tools for Sangoma cards? Where are the debian packages wanpipe, etc.? David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that > directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured > out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser > or other means of indexing them, searchin

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that > directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured > out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser > or other means of indexing them, searc

Re: [R] How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

Dan, First off, there is even a r-sig-debian list in the universe of R mailing lists (c.f. the R FAQ). That probably provides a more focused readership than the union of r-help (where many won't know Debian) and debian-user (where many won't know R). On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Dan

startup script oops

apache and discover use /bin/sed, not /usr/bin/awk. apache2, alsa, and hylafax use awk, though... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

startup file authoring question

Does anybody know why startup scripts are always shell scripts? A number of the Debian scripts (apache, postfix, discover...) use awk, which is on the /usr partition. So is Perl. Why can't I write a startup in Perl? Sure would make my life easier... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID:

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I've been thinking about unzipping them all, but I figured it wasn't > worth the disk space. > > But if you think that's OK, you could probably do it with > find /usr/share/doc -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip {} \; > or something like that... > I just added the following line

Re: How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 23:04, Dan Davison wrote: > What is the best way to do this? If I don't want to upgrade > to unstable, must I compile R myself, or is there some way to install > this as a debian package? Then, I'd recommend using the R's own backports, this line would probably do the t

Re: Creating a DVD from .avi movies?

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:47:46 +0200 Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Can anybody recommend me a working solution to easily make DVDs from > normal avi movies (DivX5, XviD with AC3 or mp3, the usual stuff...)? > > So far every program I tries crashed somewhen in between or

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 22:47, Jim Lynch wrote: > For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that > directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't > figured out how to read them. I've been thinking about unzipping them all, but I figured it wasn't worth th

Re: [R] How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Dan Davison wrote: > I would like to install the latest version of R (the statistical computing > software). This is package r-base version 2.2.0 and is in the debian > 'unstable' repository. Otherwise my system has 'sarge' packages, including > r-base 2

Re: How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

Sometimes newer versions of programs can be found as "backports". I've never had any luck finding them, however. I think these are versions that have been put in unstable or testing and someone kindly generates a .deb for the stable environment. See what you can find about backports. Jim.

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 17:47, Jim Lynch wrote: > For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that > directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured > out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser > or other means of indexing

net configure

I have asus A7N8X deluxe Mother board with 3com and forcedeth ethernet ports. nvidia forcedeth is eth0 and 3com is eth1. I have crossover cable connected to eth1(3com). I have both debian and knoppix along with winxp. When the pc is connected to laptop through eth1, it works in winxp and knoppix. b

Creating a DVD from .avi movies?

Hello Can anybody recommend me a working solution to easily make DVDs from normal avi movies (DivX5, XviD with AC3 or mp3, the usual stuff...)? So far every program I tries crashed somewhen in between or was too low level to be used with fun (mencode/transcode). thanks, -christian- -- To UNS

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

I was looking for something more elegant. Most of the files of interest are gzip'ed files and none of the filemanagers/browsers I tried would unzip and display the contents. Besides, a search facility and/or index would be quite nice. Jim. Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2005

Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 06:03:51PM +0800, kangja wrote: > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > alone? if you find some way to improve on debian, why use it to produce > another branch? E.g. the bootable cd of Knoppix, why not just have a > bootable cd for debia

host does not resolve names it should

Hi, I have a very strange problem. I have a Debian box at home, connected to an ISP (full with Slackware boxes). As the ISP's sysadmin left, I took the sysadmin role there. The main problem is that the ISP has it's domain, but it can't be resolved inside because there's a trick somewhere with eve

How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

I would like to install the latest version of R (the statistical computing software). This is package r-base version 2.2.0 and is in the debian 'unstable' repository. Otherwise my system has 'sarge' packages, including r-base 2.1.0. What is the best way to do this? If I don't want to upgrade to

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:47:11PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that > directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured > out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser > or other means of

rpcinfo -p hangs during FAI

Not sure if this is the proper mailing list for this question. If there is one that's more appropriate please let me know. During an FAI installation of Sarge, whenever one of the *.postinst packages in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ calls addgroup, addgroup calls rpcinfo -p which hangs the process for about

What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser or other means of indexing them, searching them and displaying them. I just can't f

Re: urgent help needed no commands are running and web,database servers also not starting

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:10:45AM -0700, Radhika wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday i have installed kernal image 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 and i have > restarted it was working fine that time.Now i am not able to run any commands > and my apache,myasql servers also not starting. > > When i try to type

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda2 doesn't have a valid boot signature

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:56:23AM -0500, Robert D. Crawford wrote: > I get the above message when trying to run lilo after installing sarge > on a spare partition of my hdd. Here is what I have done: > > 1. Net install of sarge on hda2 > 2. boot into sid on hda7 > 3. added the following two l

Re: Reformat USB Mass Storage mp3 player

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:23:45AM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > My daughter's 64mb Mini-k mp3 player has just died and giving an error > 'reformat to FAT16'. Neither fdisk or parted will access the drive > giving i/o read and unable to read partition table errors. Tried > googling without success

Re: Fwd: Problem with PATH variable and access

Hi, On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:53:02PM -0300, Ivan Paganini wrote: > Sorry about the last message, I forgot to put that I am running sarge > 3.1stable. :-) > > > +++ > > Hello all. I am not sure this is the correct place to post this,

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

hi ya steve relax .. have a beer... i agree On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:02:56PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > just because you disagree doesn't mean you are right and i am wrong > > You're right. Just because I disagree doesn't make me right and yo

Re: X.org does not start properly after upgrade

On 10/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > I looked into my system with Knoppix and found the /etc/X11/xorg.conf is > basically an identical copy of the corresponding Xf84 config-4 file. So I do > not understand where to look to get X.org running or at least to get xf86 > ba

X.org does not start properly after upgrade

Hi list,Yesterday I installed all upgradable packages with aptitude on a sid system. I guess I had gotten too cocky given that everything has worked seamlessly on my Debian system since I switched from SuSe a few years ago...in any case, I wound up installing  X.org without really thinking enough a

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 03:43 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Juraj Fedel wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:08:49PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > >>What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and > >>knoppix distros? > >> > >>sam > > > >Is it possible to instal Ubuntu o

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Juraj Fedel wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:08:49PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and knoppix distros? sam Is it possible to instal Ubuntu or Knoppix and then to cotinue with installing packages from Sarge? (Only CD avai

first Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: > Afaik knoppix is the first bootable CD distribution. slackware was always a standalone live distro from its beginnings i don't know if there was other standalone cd before knippix based on debian c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote: > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > alone? because: a) they can b) they want to have their own label (they can sell it in various forms) c) they want to improve it in ways they want d) tney can sell it e) they don't kn

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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > An interesting answer to the question that I was going to ask. I've > just installed a mew HD in my parents' computer. They are not exactly > knowledgeable users, they've been using XP, and I was trying to decide > between Knoppix and Ubuntu (having

Re: gpg: export just my keys, not whole keyring?

On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 13:36, Matt Price wrote: > interesting, the depths of my ignorance continue to berevealed to > me... I'm not sure what a keyid is! Ah, OK! Hmmm, I'm going searching... It seems you have an (old) key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=matt.price%40utoronto.ca&

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Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Juraj Fedel wrote: > Is it possible to instal Ubuntu or Knoppix and then to cotinue > with installing packages from Sarge? (Only CD available - no > network download possible.) With Knoppix, generally yes. With Ubuntu, no. Knoppix provides a way to copy the CD onto a partition and make i

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 11:53, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Of course, I'm also tempted to install Sarge with KDE, OpenOffice, > Mozilla etc.  How un-user friendly can that be.  ;) Not unfriendly at all! :-) If you are prepared to manage the box... It is installing and tweaking config options to b

Re: msn + iptables NAT on Debian

Do you know read a text? In my text I say: "The iptables rules: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/8 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE" Don't have blocking ports. I used MASQUERADE to all connections. Regards. Jan Schled

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

+-- | On (12/10/05 19:44), Juraj Fedel wrote: | | Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:44:53 +0200 | From: Juraj Fedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix | | On Tue, Oc

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:08:49PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and > knoppix distros? > > sam Is it possible to instal Ubuntu or Knoppix and then to cotinue with installing packages from Sarge? (Only CD available - no network do

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:02:56PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > just because you disagree doesn't mean you are right and i am wrong You're right. Just because I disagree doesn't make me right and you wrong. What makes me right and you wrong is the fact that I checked my sources (Ubuntu's page),

Re: Problem with Samsung Laser Jet

Carlos Obregon, > I installed Debian and I was amazed to how easy it was. However I got > problems with my printer a Samsung ML-1740. When I try Debian to install it > it ask me for a PPD file which is in the CD's printer. Even if it seems to > be installed it doesn't work. Is there anything that

Re: Disappearance of Applications/Debian menu in Gnome 2.10/unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barry Hawkins wrote: > I recently (the last several days) had my Debian menu disappear from my > GNOME Applications menu. I checked for bug reports against menu, > gnome-menus, and others but nothing looks like. Didn't see anyone else > report the is

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Chris Humphries wrote: +-- | On (11/10/05 20:33), Nate Duehr wrote: | | Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:33:42 -0600 | From: Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Re: debian vs ubuntu an

Problem with Samsung Laser Jet

I installed Debian and I was amazed to how easy it was. However I got problems with my printer a Samsung ML-1740. When I try Debian to install it it ask me for a PPD file which is in the CD's printer. Even if it seems to be installed it doesn't work. Is there anything that maybe I have forgotten?

Re: Debian and Xp network problem

The dhcp on the router is turned off. Here is my samba info: #=== Global Settings === [global] os level = 255 local master = yes guest account = john netbios name = Claudia security = user wins support = no

Re: msn + iptables NAT on Debian

Eriberto wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small network behind a iptables machine. The iptables is > configured with NAT (masquerade) and transparent proxy (squid). The > general traffic is ok. However, the MSN on Windows machine don't start > and show the message: "server is too busy". If I restart

IM & spell

Hello, I use IM to chat in different languages, and I would like to have a spell checker working and also to have different dictionaries according to the person. I'm currently using a gaim (1.2.1-1.4) from sarge and AFAIK I can't change the spell dict... Is there any MSN client in sarge [*] that

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Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Sam Rosenfeld wrote: >However, what really turns some people on to Debian turns me off -- >especially the package manager criteria for including not-quite-pure >executables (e.g., pine) in most of the distributions. I know my mild >comment will light a roaring conflagration, but I won't participa

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Chris Humphries wrote: > > Obviously, you have no idea what Ubuntu is. Nice try though. > > Ubuntu will never be a commercialized linux, and even will mail > you cds for free. It seems to be organized better and "just works" > without having to hack things around. Ubuntu bei

No Sound

Hardware - Compaq evo N610c Soundcard - Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Debian Release - Sarge Kernel - 2.6.13.2 Ran alsaconf and selected the: intel8x0 Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev02) card, and had it modify the /et

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

On (12/10/05 09:03), Chris Humphries wrote: > I at one time had programs written to update a user's environment when they > logged in (set up the desktop, check for updates, upload whatever, etc). > > This should be simple for debian (and others) based systems, by running the > script to verify th

Re:

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren, meet spamassasson... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hill

Re: apt upgrade gives error while retrieving bugs

Edward J. Shornock wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > {snip} > >> Anybody else having this problem? >> >> >> > Yes, that error came up here as well. I resolved it be temporarily > commenting out the line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs > > I tried again a short while ago and the problem seems t

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

Duncan Anderson writes: > I have to agree with John. Ubuntu can't be called "commercialized". It's > free of charge and will always be free of charge, according to their > website. "Popularized" may be a better word to use. I'd call Ubuntu "commercial", but I see nothing wrong with that. "Commerci

Re: No Sound

Scarletdown wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:42 -0400, [KS] wrote: Scarletdown wrote: What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL: Module not found. Try modprobe snd-es1688 and re

msn + iptables NAT on Debian

Hello, I have a small network behind a iptables machine. The iptables is configured with NAT (masquerade) and transparent proxy (squid). The general traffic is ok. However, the MSN on Windows machine don't start and show the message: "server is too busy". If I restart the network service (/et

Re: Your Email to Healthy Computer Club Customer Service

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