Re: New Distro

2016-08-05 Thread deloptes
Satya Prakash Prasad wrote: > I am totally confused on steps to achieve creating a new Debian Distro - > my requirement is that we need to create a new OS image where we just have > packages that are required. > > Now is there a way where minimum packages details data is available - how > do we k

New Distro

2016-08-05 Thread Satya Prakash Prasad
I am totally confused on steps to achieve creating a new Debian Distro - my requirement is that we need to create a new OS image where we just have packages that are required. Now is there a way where minimum packages details data is available - how do we know what extra needs to be added - where

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 4:24 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is looking bett

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 13 Oct 14:43 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:01:00PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > Slackware springs to mind. > > > > Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I > > understand, t

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:24:29 + (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is looking better and better). Oh shit. If I we

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Jason C. Taylor
I'm a desktop user too. I've tried FunToo and Void. Void came very close to working for me, but there were a few things that it just couldn't do--at least not easily enough for me--that I need to do my job. I'd love to try PC-BSD, but there's no support for my WiFi card. I'll probably give O

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Curt wrote: >> On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar >>> conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is >>> looking better and better). >>> >> Oh shit. >> >> > > Wou

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 14:20:16 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Curt wrote: > >On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar > >>conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is > >>looking better and better). > >> >

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > If I were going to give up free software and go proprietary, I'd go > Mac. Unfortunately, at this point I'm actually considering Mac as my > final backstop. Last I checked, Mac hadn't patch Shellshock prope

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:01:00PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 > Carl Fink wrote: > > > Slackware springs to mind. > > Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I > understand, they're proud that their package manager doesn't support > depen

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread golinux
On Mon, 10/13/14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Subject: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users) To: "debian-user" Date: Monday, October 13, 2014, 11:45 AM Folks, [cut] I'm really curious to know how many others here have co

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > Slackware springs to mind. Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I understand, they're proud that their package manager doesn't support dependencies. Sy wht? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.tr

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:24:29 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a > > similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, > > SmartOS is looking better and better). > > > > Oh shit. If I

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Curt wrote: On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is looking better and better). Oh shit. Would you care to elaborate on that? -- In theory, there is no di

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 4:24 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >> I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar >> conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is >> looking better and bette

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
Slackware springs to mind. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar > conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is > looking better and better). > Oh shit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Folks, All the discussion about systemd, and what I perceive as a shift in priority, for the Debian developer community, of putting desktop users ahead of server-side users, has me me seriously looking at: 1. maintaining my older Debian distro as long as possible 2. migrating to a new distro

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Dom
On 08/05/13 22:33, Bob Proulx wrote: Valaki Valahol wrote: Also where can I find the older distros, eg. 6.0.7 that I can download all the DVD IDO images ? Older images are available. Now that Wheezy 7.0 has released the previous Squeeze 6.0 is now "older". These are available in archive sect

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Valaki Valahol wrote: > Also where can I find the older distros, eg. 6.0.7 that I can download all > the DVD IDO images ? Older images are available. Now that Wheezy 7.0 has released the previous Squeeze 6.0 is now "older". These are available in archive section. Here is a reference: http://

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Valaki Valahol wrote: > I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new > distro contains more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on > the DVD image download page I can download only 3 DVD ISO > images... How can that be ? All of the DVDs images are available.

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:19:59 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: > > Hello Sven... > > > > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to > > me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... > > Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in ji

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 8 May 2013 22:49:52 +0300 Valaki Valahol wrote: > Hello Sven... > > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me > then simply downloading it from http of ftp... It's not as simple for sure, but jigdo is not that hard to use and a very useful software if you ne

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Doug
On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in jigdo format ? I was faced with jigdo some years ago, and irt comple

RE: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Valaki Valahol
, I am not a genius, I am just a simple guy, I am a man thus i make mistakes, but I think that I have asked for help in a polite way. Thanks that You read my letter and for Your answer! Zoltan > From: svenj...@gmx.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: New distro &g

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 11:09 +0200, Valaki Valahol wrote: > I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new distro > contains > more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on the DVD image download page > I can download only 3 DVD ISO images... How can that be ? Probabl

New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Valaki Valahol
Hello... I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new distro contains more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on the DVD image download page I can download only 3 DVD ISO images... How can that be ? Because as far as I remember the 6.x version of Debian contained more