Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-15 Thread W Paul Mills
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Jeff Garey wrote: > Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself! I seem to have the > same experience...several years experience with computers, and a > little programming, and a technical background in communications. > Unfortunately, Linux is not my full time job. Document

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-13 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Jeff Garey wrote: > Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself! I seem to have the > same experience...several years experience with computers, and a > little programming, and a technical background in communications. > Unfortunately, Linux is not my full time job. Document

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-13 Thread Jeff Garey
ld be of great help. Jeff, a novice Debian Linux User -Original Message- From: Bert Conliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 04:15 Subject: A Cry For Help > Date: 5/12/98 > Subject: The Debian Starter System > > Backg

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bert Conliffe wrote: ... > Now that I have the basic Debian installed what do I do? > I have a chapter for the yet unreleased user manual on the subject of basic commands. You can read this at http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/user.html. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PRO

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear Bert, I'm another relative newbie, and I've cut my teeth the hard way, with not dos or anything to fall back on, and a Vet degree to worry about. I'll see what I can do for you, since people have been really helpful to me ;) > Background: For the past few months I've been reading on all fr

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Bert! On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 12:39:24PM -0400, Bert Conliffe wrote: > > Now that I have the basic Debian installed what do I do? This heavily depends on what you want to do with Debian. Please note that Debian can serve as a development system for various programming languages, it can s

A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread Bert Conliffe
Date: 5/12/98 To: The Debian Org. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bert Conliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Debian Starter System Background: For the past few months I've been reading on all fronts about the superiority of Linux over the incoming Windows '98 and the Windows NT syste