Anthony Campbell wrote:
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> # This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines
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> connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/freeserve" #p
George Bonser wrote:
> Embracing commercial software at first is the path to eventually winning.
> Let the commercial vendors in ... let them penetrate deep into linux. Then
> surround and destory them with free alternatives once you have them
> committed to your platform or convince them of the b
George Bonser wrote:
The computer is a tool. People often use it to get real work
> done with real deadlines. Real money depends on this work. Debian offers
> the best ENVORONMENT, so far, for maintaining and supporting software for
> Linux in the enterprise.
Not so cut-and dried. Debian offers
Bob Bernstein wrote:
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>
> Money changes people. And money talks and bs walks. That's all I'm saying.
You make some valid points about the danger for Debian and
GNU/Linux. IMHO the Corel distribution, like some others, is
getting away from the real importance of GNU/Linux. The points
are, as Ric
Hi. Anyone know if there is a deb package (I'm using Slink still with
2.0.36 kernel) for converting ordinary dates into Julian dates (as used
in Astronomy)? Or if no debs then any GNU/Linux package which I could
use alien on?
> Neo-fandangled-SuperVision2000 video card which is not supported in
> Debian Slink, so they opt to use RedHat 6.1 instead. This kind of thing
> is increasinly giving the public the impression that Linux is indeed
> forking and that "RedHat is better because it supports more hardware
> than Debia
Matthew Dalton wrote:
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> The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is
> that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to
> download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade
> their systems to the latest stuff.
>
> It seems that D
nate wrote:
Thanks for the help - problem solved now.
Hi. I received the following error while using fetchmail on a new slink
2.1 install with exim:
realloc failed:cannot allocate memory.
Can anyone please tell me what this means and what should be done?
I used the fetchmail -vv option to find the message, and have run
fetchmail both as root and using
Can anyone please tell me what the following message from
/var/log/messages means, and if it is as bad as it sounds?
directory sread (sector 0x1b) failed attempt to access beyond end of
device
Thanks in advance
I've just tried to load some packages using apt from a file entry (file:
/cdrom etc.)and got the following error message:
mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
busy
Unable to mount /dev/cdrom
Dselect exits without installing packages. Using the umount command
nse agreements which take away freedoms.
To sum up - what IMHO is important is not the commercial success of
GNU/Linux, but keeping GNU/Linux tweakable, learnable, interesting and
composed of free software with all the advantages that brings in terms
of community and development.
Godric
Duggan Dieterly wrote:
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> i'm thinking about switching from debian to red hat. is there any compelling
> reason why debian is better than red hat?
> --
Yes, Debian is technically superior (IMHO) - plus the official Debs is
free software and upholds the principles of free software (see the GNU
w
nd whistles of Netscape but I've never had any problems.
Also use it for making/editing web-pages and writing files in html to
send to others.
Godric
he learning experience that Linux provides; surely that
is one of its great strengths - that we can figure things out, and fix
them, and often need to fix them because there is no tech support. We
are getting more and people who just use computers and not only know
nothing about them but who are afraid of tinkering about, of looking
under the hood..
Godric
Apologies for what may be a very simple question - but I'm new using
Debian (migrated from Suse which I've had only been using for a while)
but what file do I have to change in Debian 2.1 so that on booting I go
straight to text mode to login rather than the graphical login? I know
in Suse its th
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