my 2 bits worth!
(an' that tells my age!!!) i most whole heartedly agree that this mailing
list is most usefull, and quite slow to shoot at the questioner for their
audacity to not already know the answer (or where/how to find it!) my
experience here is that everyone acts like a responsible adu
"Friendly" can often be harshing on someone in a helpful manner ratehr
than ignoring them. I for one would much rather be called the worst name
in the universe and helped than be treated with kid gloves and continue to
have the problem. I have noticed that there is a lot of harshing in the
debia
>4. Okay - trouble-shooting time. When I start X if works fine for about
>2 minutes, then the mouse jerks for a few seconds before locking up.
>Any idea why this is?
GPM is the culprit. This process allows you to cut and paste in console
mode. The repeater or something like that is setup inco
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:30 am, Timeboy wrote:
> And i agree with you. This is the friendliest newsgroup that i know.
>
Try the KDE newsgroups. I haven't found anything friendlier. The Debian ones
are pretty good too, but especially among the developers over there, there
just aren't the mass
On Monday Aug 27, 23:48 Ross Burton wrote:
>I'm glad I've got the correct list!
>
>You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake
>posse... :-)
Yes this can be possible. If i made my first experiences with Linux,
i used a german newsgroup. Most of people there used Suse. And it
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:48 pm, Ross Burton wrote:
> You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake
> posse... :-)
>
Man... if we're more friendly then I'd really be scared of the
RedHat/Mandrake people... have you checked out debian-devel? Scary!
- David Nusinow
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many
> years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of
> questions:
>
> 1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I
> wan
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2001 23:34:47 +, Timeboy wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Use #dselect! It's a great tool! And can also manage the dependancies.
>
> I agree - I'd heard of dselect before I installed Debian so was saved by
> using it. I was jus
On 27 Aug 2001 23:34:47 +, Timeboy wrote:
[snip]
> Use #dselect! It's a great tool! And can also manage the dependancies.
I agree - I'd heard of dselect before I installed Debian so was saved by
using it. I was just wondering if there was another way of checking the
dependancies.
I'm glad
On Monday Aug 27, 22:21 Ross Burton wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many
>years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of
>questions:
>
>1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I
>want to check that
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many
| years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of
| questions:
|
| 1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically
Hi,
Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many
years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of
questions:
1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I
want to check that all of the packages on my system are from Sid, not
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