On 10/12/24 11:39, Patrice Duroux wrote:
Hi,
The first concern is not that annoying and about a wireless mouse that
has systematically two different behaviours:
1. one if the receiver is already plugged at boot,
2. one if it is plugged while linux has boot.
For 1. the mouse is like going quickly
Hi,
The first concern is not that annoying and about a wireless mouse that
has systematically two different behaviours:
1. one if the receiver is already plugged at boot,
2. one if it is plugged while linux has boot.
For 1. the mouse is like going quickly into sleep mode each time I do
not move it
On 12/7/18 7:36 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post
"Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?"
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html)
Aside: the programmer has been able to send me a bina
On 12/8/18 9:21 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, December 08, 2018 02:59:15 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
You are over-complicating things.
I can believe that ;-)
You can build chroot in just a
separate folder using debootstrap.
Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try
On 08.12.2018 19:21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try at least at first.
>
> Looking ahead, if I later want to experiment with real VMs, do they need to
> be
> on separate partitions or can they also just be in separate folders?
>
> And if they can be
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 09:21:33AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Looking ahead, if I later want to experiment with real VMs, do they need to
> be
> on separate partitions or can they also just be in separate folders?
>
Every VM solution that I can think of supports using disk image files
On Saturday, December 08, 2018 02:59:15 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> You are over-complicating things.
I can believe that ;-)
> You can build chroot in just a
> separate folder using debootstrap.
Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try at least at first.
Looking ahead, if I lat
On 08.12.2018 8:36, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post
> "Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?"
>
> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html)
>
> Aside: the programmer has been able to send
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:36:43PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> One of the partitions I could free up is 16 GB, the other is 54 GB -- I'd
> rather free up and use the smaller one, but I'm wondering if that will be big
> enough?
I would be amazed if 16GB wasn't enough. All you'll be do
This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post
"Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?"
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html)
Aside: the programmer has been able to send me a binary which does work on my
Jessie system, but,
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world
From: Ric Moore
Sent: Friday, 10 August 2018 4:56 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Using Sid - sound prob
On 08/09/2018 05:10 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Thu,
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world
From: Joe
Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2018 7:10 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: delop...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)
On Th
On 08/09/2018 05:10 AM, Joe wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200
deloptes wrote:
Regarding the sound - I never had a problem in the past 12+ years.
You are fortunate. I went though a period where the assignments for
sound card 0 and 1 would randomly flip, every few weeks or months. I
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
...
> I did finally figuratively "run away" while very literally "shrieking"
> one day because there were SO MANY upgrades. I wasn't able to do both
> that and the advocacy that MUST be done from behind this keyboard
> right now. That just doesn't work on dialup... unfortuna
On 8/9/18, deloptes wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200
>> deloptes wrote:
>>
>>> Joe wrote:
>>>
>>> > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my
>>> > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a
>>> > pig on Linux, as the so
Joe wrote:
> It's a dim memory now, but I've certainly been there and done that.
>
> There's an indirection somewhere else that wasn't stable. It's probably
> ancient history now.
no it is not ancient history but it improved and still in some cases you
need to put index value. I guess you did no
Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200
> deloptes wrote:
>
>> Joe wrote:
>>
>> > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my
>> > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a
>> > pig on Linux, as the software base seems to change every few
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 11:24:18 +0200
Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
> 2018-08-09 11:10 keltezéssel, Joe írta:
> > You are fortunate. I went though a period where the assignments for
> > sound card 0 and 1 would randomly flip, every few weeks or months. I
> > didn't find whatever magical incantation would prev
2018-08-09 11:10 keltezéssel, Joe írta:
> You are fortunate. I went though a period where the assignments for
> sound card 0 and 1 would randomly flip, every few weeks or months. I
> didn't find whatever magical incantation would prevent this, if it
> existed.
module alias can help. I suppose the
On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my
> > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a
> > pig on Linux, as the software base seems to change every few years,
> > and until r
Joe wrote:
> Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my
> sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a pig
> on Linux, as the software base seems to change every few years, and
> until recently, multiple sound cards had the same problem as multiple
>
occasion for an
> interesting discussion with a lot of passionate users taking part to
> it (the `su/sudo' one). Discussions that turn to be useful and
> clarifying also for Stable of course. Secondarily, what is important
> I think to point out is the fact that I've been using S
y recent experience
with Sid and two problems coming up: `no sound' and `su/sudo', gave birth and
occasion for an interesting discussion with a lot of passionate users taking
part to it (the `su/sudo' one). Discussions that turn to be useful and
clarifying also for Stable of course. S
On Tue,12.Aug.08, 00:15:10, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > ,
> > | if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
> ..cough..^
Typo (all my self-made scripts are #!/bin/sh, where 'sh' points to
'dash').
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert E
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:46:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like
> >>> a charm.
> >>>
> >>> if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then
> >>> startx
> >>> exit
> >>> fi
>
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like
a charm.
if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:46:51, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> And eventually it will return the prompt. I think most cases will be
> covered by something like:
>
> ,
> | if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
> | if [ ! -f /tmp/X0-lock ]; then
> | startx
> | exit
> | fi
> | fi
On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
>>> I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like
>>> a charm.
>>>
>>> if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then
>>>
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 09 15:49 -0500]:
> Right now I use the "limit view" function with appropriate search terms to
> get this kind of information; it would be nice if aptitude displayed the
> archive(s) next to the version number automatically.
Ahh, since I just have uns
On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works
like a charm.
if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then
startx
exit
fi
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Ron,
I
Quoting Daniel Burrows :
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer was heard to say:
- I would like to be able to declare "favorites" among packages, to
guide conflict resolution.
I was actually working on this a few weeks ago but I got sidetracked
by the fact that the GTK+
Quoting Nate Bargmann :
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 09 07:29 -0500]:
[...]
- It would be nice to have "apt-cache policy"-equivalent information in
the versions display of packages. Right now I find it difficult to
figure out in which archive a given version can be found
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:09 +0100, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
> desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software
> (and related patches), are there any other benefits to using Sid? I am
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 21:07 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > aptitude makes it easy to "plan the updates"
>
> How so?
You can easily mark packages for installation, upgrade, reinstallation
or removal
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> - I would like to be able to declare "favorites" among packages, to
> guide conflict resolution.
I was actually working on this a few weeks ago but I got sidetracked
by the fact that the GTK+ inte
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
> >>> Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, R
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:31 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package
> > >
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 09 07:29 -0500]:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 20:01:46 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> [ snip: a bit of goofing off ]
>
> > I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program,
> > because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning t
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 20:01:46 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
[ snip: a bit of goofing off ]
> I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program,
> because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning the interface
> and I don't want to accidentally break useful features. Any
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package
> > manager after you enter 500 configuration options to enable all th
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:50:39PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:16:04 +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
>> > Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >>> On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>> Disple
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want
> > your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked?
> > Especially in this nvidia crazed age?
>
> Can you elaborate on that statement? I ask because of my utte
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 03:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 퍭㒲䞞阩먭磚, I think he was serious, and I agree
> > with him. Do you want
> > > your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked?
> > > Especially in this nvidi
Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> >
> > No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want
> > your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked?
> > Especially in this nvidia crazed age?
>
> I am equally at h
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
> > Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
> >
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 08 18:25 -0500]:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >
> > Daniel,
> >
> > I would suggest you use EMACS as a front end.
>
> oh that's a fabulous idea, but think about it. Something as obscure
> and hard to u
Andrew Sackville-West writes:
> I would suggest you use EMACS as a front end.
An "apt-mode" sounds great to me. I'm not suggesting that Daniel (or
anyone else) write it, though.
--
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On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL
> > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > was heard to say:
> > > I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses
> >
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> was heard to say:
> > I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses
> > interface is highly non-intuitive (IMO). It, along with dselect, has
> >
s. keeling wrote:
No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want
your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked?
Especially in this nvidia crazed age?
Can you elaborate on that statement? I ask because of my utter
frustration with my NVIDIA card lately, as Ron
Bob Cox wrote:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:11:06 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Preston Boyington wrote:
As it stands, I press "/" enter my search criteria and then press
"enter" to access the packages. Then I press "/" again and "enter" to
go to the next found item. I
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:11:06 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Preston Boyington wrote:
> > As it stands, I press "/" enter my search criteria and then press
> > "enter" to access the packages. Then I press "/" again and "enter" to
> > go to the next found item. I do
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:05:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500
Preston Boyington wrote:
> As it stands, I press "/" enter my search criteria and then press
> "enter" to access the packages. Then I press "/" again and "enter" to
> go to the next found item. I don't know of a way to cycle through
> otherwise so if I miss a package I have to cycle through the w
Daniel Burrows wrote:
If you just mean that
you have to learn the keystrokes ... that's probably not going to
change; with the limited screen real estate on a terminal, I can't
afford to put in buttons on everything.
Although I haven't delved into aptitude as deeply as I probably should,
I wou
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses
> interface is highly non-intuitive (IMO). It, along with dselect, has
> always struck me as just a little Martian. That's fine in vi or em
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
I think I will once more look it over, if for no other reason then Ron
Johnson will not snicker at me.
well i don't "know" Ron but given what i have read i wouldn't bet on
that. :D
I moved from apt-get to aptitude and now I don't even think about it
anymore. This
On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Displeasur
On 08/07/2008 04:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
And I think Aptitude works very well and couldn't wait to ditch dselect
for it. Different strokes and all that. I've had the displeasure of
being dumped into Synaptic on Ubuntu and friends. I'll take Aptitude
every time, thank you very much.
- Nat
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
>> Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple,
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:11 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:12:45AM -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > Sadly, I have NEVER used aptitude ncurses. Ever since the early days of
> > > Potato, when I tried to use it, I
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:12:45AM -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > Sadly, I have NEVER used aptitude ncurses. Ever since the early days of
> > Potato, when I tried to use it, I would get completely lost. As smart
> > as I am (however smart tha
On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
It's a GUI app?
Very funny Ron. Really.
No, I thin
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
> > >
> > > It'
Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > >
> > > Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
> >
> > It's a GUI app?
>
> Very funny Ron. Really.
No, I think he was ser
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:01 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >
> >> Heh. :-)
> >>
> >> I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program,
> >> because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning the interface
> >>
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:37 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
> >
>
> Perhaps exactly that. Simplicity sometimes means that advanced features
> are not available, or that you have to dig deep to be
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:55 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >> * Cousin Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]:
> >>>
> Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:55 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Cousin Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]:
Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
with the ncurses interface of aptitude
Add a ditto onto to the ditto
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
>
Perhaps exactly that. Simplicity sometimes means that advanced features
are not available, or that you have to dig deep to be able to reach them.
I cannot say if this is the case with Synaptic, thoug
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:55 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Cousin Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]:
> >
> >
> > > Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
> > > with the ncurses interface of aptitude
> >
> > Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding my own
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:55:23PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > * Cousin Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
> > > > with the ncur
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:55:23PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Cousin Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]:
> >
> >
> > > Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
> > > with the ncurses interface of aptitude
> >
> > Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding
* Cousin Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]:
>
>
> > Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
> > with the ncurses interface of aptitude
>
> Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding my own inability
> to cope with the ncurses interface to aptitude
>
Mark Allums wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/05/08 15:53, David Witbrodt wrote:
- Original Message
From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My big problems now are:
a) nvidia binary driver doesn't build on .26 (which I need for other
reasons),
Sorry to hear that. I've been
> Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost
> with the ncurses interface of aptitude
Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding my own inability
to cope with the ncurses interface to aptitude
To me it seems cumbersome and somewhat cryptic
--
Stanley C. Kitching
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/05/08 15:53, David Witbrodt wrote:
- Original Message
From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My big problems now are:
a) nvidia binary driver doesn't build on .26 (which I need for other
reasons),
Sorry to hear that. I've been using the beta 177.1
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Sackville-West:
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
>>> > aptitude makes it easy to
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:01 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
>> Heh. :-)
>>
>> I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program,
>> because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning the interface
>> and I don't want to accidentally break useful fe
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:01 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> was heard to say:
> > Quoting Andrew Sackville-West:
> >> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:09:34 +0100
andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
> desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software
> (and related patches), are there any other ben
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Quoting Andrew Sackville-West:
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
Quoting Andrew Sackville-West:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> aptitude makes it easy to "plan the updates"
How so?
I'll bite on this... the simple but powerful
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > aptitude makes it easy to "plan the updates"
>
> How so?
I'll bite on this... the simple but powerful interface allows me to
quickl
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:46:28PM +0100, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> That's a fair point. I currently run stable (Lenny) because it seemed to
> be a good balance between (relatively) up-to-date software that has
> (mostly) had its bugs worked through.
Note that lenny is *n
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> aptitude makes it easy to "plan the updates"
How so?
Daniel
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On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:29 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/05/08 15:53, David Witbrodt wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > - Original Message
> >> From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> My big problems now are:
> >> a) nvidia binary driver doesn't build on .26 (which I need for other
> >
Ron Johnson wrote:
Where is the beta? Stable is at:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86
You can also find it in updated sticky posts at the official Nvidia
Linux forum:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
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> Where is the beta? Stable is at:
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86
Browsing to nvidia.com gets you their funky home page, with a bunch
of useless links -- none pointing to driver downloads. Clicking on
just about anything, you then get pages that have a more useful top
menu, with
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +0100, andy wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
On 08/05/08 15:53, David Witbrodt wrote:
- Original Message
From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My big problems now are:
a) nvidia binary driver doesn't build on .26 (which I need for other
reasons),
Sorry to hear that. I've been using the beta 177.13 driver for
quite a
- Original Message
> From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> My big problems now are:
> a) nvidia binary driver doesn't build on .26 (which I need for other
> reasons),
Sorry to hear that. I've been using the beta 177.13 driver for
quite a while now. I built a custom 2.6.26 k
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +0100, andy wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
>> desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software
>>
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:09:34 +0100
andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
> desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software
> (and related patches), are there any other ben
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
> desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software
> (and related patches), are there any other benefits to using Sid?
On 08/05/08 08:33, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008, andy wrote:
This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software
(and related patches), are there any other benefits to using Sid
On Tue,05.Aug.08, 14:09:34, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a desktop
> or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software (and
> related patches), are there any other benefits to using Sid? I am aware of
Y
Kent West wrote:
andy wrote:
Hi all
This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a
desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute
software (and related patches), are there any other benefits to using
Sid? I am aware of the risks - i.e. frequently broken
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