Raising Debian Awareness

2003-03-26 Thread debian parisc
I sent this message already, but I'm not sure it got through. I'm trying to get the corporate suits to look at debian for some of our existing hp, sparc and intel platforms. What I need to understand is how it is being used out there. Also what you did in order to convince your business that de

Sylog Error Messages

2003-02-06 Thread debian parisc
Friends, I'm running stable and I have portsentry, firestarter, chkrootkit and logcheck installed on my machine. Whilst checking my logs I see loads of these entries:- Feb 6 15:05:10 kingston kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=100.100.100.100 DST=100.100.100.255 LEN=273 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 I

PGP Signatures

2003-01-27 Thread debian parisc
Friends, forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of your signature? They just look like a string of characters that could have been made up to me. It maybe because I receive most of the email

Debian-based UnitedLinux

2003-01-27 Thread debian parisc
I'm planning to deploy a UnitedLinux version based on Debian. What does that mean? You get a distribution with your favourite package manager and >installer that includes all the software (packages) (and not more) that is listed in the UnitedLinux standard. don't you have to apply to some stand

Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread debian parisc
Hello, although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to ensure that my wife doesn't divorce me I need to make sure that I get it rig