Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating for me, > and > I suspect I am not the only one. The numbered versions, the Toy Story names, > and then the testing, stable, old stable, old old stable is jus

Re: Bug#665426: base: USB drive spins up every hour

Hi Stefan, On Samstag, 24. März 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Package: base > Severity: normal > > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). > > This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always > idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not

DebConf8 video streams

Hi, in seven hours DebConf8 will officially begin, you can participate by watching the live video streams as described on http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams - have fun! The schedule for tomorrow/today is available at https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/day_2008-08-10.en.html - fo

Re: Automatic debiian installation

Hi Tim, thanks for sharing your experiences. On Wednesday 11 June 2008 12:18, Tim Cutts wrote: > However, FAI usually depends on NFS -- yes, I know about fai-cd -- and > so isn't very appropriate for installing machines which are not part > of the same network (FAI: -1) This isnt really accurate

Re: etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

Hi Rick, On Saturday 14 April 2007 19:33, Rick Thomas wrote: > 1) How do I import the public key for volatile? (If it's in the fine > manual, then please point me to it so I can RTFM) To be executed as root: gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de --recv-keys AC583520 gpg --fingerprint AC583520 # c

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

Hi, first I'd like to thank Kevin for his nice diagram! On Wednesday 05 January 2005 20:38, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Very nice! I expect to use it at some conferences (BTW: Looks like a > nice addition to Debian Eyecatcher[1], I'll add it :) ) but then I also got one concern, especially if this diag

Re: update-alternates

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:56, Randolph Kahle wrote: > I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to > install Java. > > The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". It is > not installed on my machi

Re: mirror a debian mirror...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 22:31, Joao Clemente wrote: > What's the best way to do it? > I've read recently about FAI on LinuxToday, maybe I should follow FAI > procedure for setting up the mirror? It suggests the use of > mkdebmirror script (debm

Re: debian installer, uml, kernel 2.6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i tried to install debian sarge rc2 into an uml system. the host is if you don't get an answer from debian-user@ you should possibly try debian-boot@, the mailing-list dedicated to the

Re: PowerPc 5300 compatible?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 05:06, sasha shkolnikov wrote: > I am new to Debian. I have an old Apple Macintosh 5300 PowerBook > (PowerPC chip). Does anyone know if I can run Debiac on it? ..and how. > Really don't want to waste it. A quick google

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 07 December 2004 21:59, Michael Madden wrote: > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability of > network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that > I can run from the command line? Ri

proposed updates - part of Debian or not ?

Hello everybody! I've got a simple question: are the proposed updates part of the official Debian distribution or not ? Proposed updates to the stable distribution: In "Debian