which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4) will perform better for desktop
usage under occasional power failure circumstance? like recover from power
failure and fragment after long time run.
thanks in advance!
Alex Austin wrote:
> What CD player program are you using? Does it freeze as soon as you stick
> the disk in? If so, what desktop are you using? KDE? Gnome? XFCE? Can you
> play other sounds/music files? Can you rip audio with CDParanoia? Which
> optical drive do you have?
>
> On 12/4/06, Baz <[EM
El Domingo 10 Diciembre 2006 18:01, Florian Kulzer escribió:
> The package "kiosktool" might be worth a look if you are trying to set
> up a public terminal and limit the things that the users can do to the
> system.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Florian
Thanks, Florian. This is just what I was loo
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> Where is xorg.conf located? I am experiencing the same problem as well.
As root run 'updatedb' (although a cron job periodically does this.)
Then 'locate xorg.conf' or whatever you are looking for.
--
Chris.
==
" ... the officia
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do.
>
> mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
> (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to
IIRC, there was a post on debian-devel whe
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:34:39AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
[..]
You are responding to a thread in name only. You should list reply to a
previous message in the thread. Sorry for being picky, but when I saw
Re: I wondered why my threaded mail reader was 'playing up'.
The MUA should put
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:13:26AM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver
> relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP.
>
> However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication.
>
> I hav
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:36:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi;
> I am using a debian linux-2.6.17 system to build a linux-2.6.x
> (x = 12 or 9). After `make install` the newly built kernel, I could boot
> up the new kernel without error. However, when I boot up the system back
> to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I've noticed the same kind of disputes in natural languages. For
example, English speakers usually perceive a clear semantic difference
between "many" and "much". Yet it's possible to give a purely syntactic
rule to distinguish them -- you use "many" when mod
Hello,
We have some trouble with samba together with a flaky windows NT 4.0
Server: Quite often the server crashes and can't be reached again until it
is rebooted. We mount some smb shares from that server and when the server
crashes, we can't access the shares until root unmounts and remounts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:17:09PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR.
A slight correction: Floppies do not have MBRs on them. They are
a single volume,
> >On 06.12.06 10:11, Jabka Atu wrote:
> >> Hello , id like to convert my 120 Gb ntfs parttion to ext3 or to
> >> reiserfs (the files are about 1gb each ) .
> On 12/7/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >ntfs drivers in linux can read from NTFS partitions. however I don't know
I just attempted an install of etch on an old Toshiba Satellite 425CDT.
I used a set of install floppies because this laptop can't boot from the
CD-ROM drive.
Anyway, the install ran its course (it was a Network install), but after
the install was completed, and I rebooted, the PCMCIA drivers don'
Mike McCarty wrote:
Peas also fall into this category. I don't know whether I could
find examples which are not related to food, but believe me, the
issue is if you ask "how many" then you want an actual count,
and anything not counted is not a "many", but rather a "much".
How much timber, ho
Martin Fuzzey wrote:
Hi,
I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver
relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP.
However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication.
I have set up SASL following the postfix documentation and t
Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Peas also fall into this category. I don't know whether I could
find examples which are not related to food, but believe me, the
issue is if you ask "how many" then you want an actual count,
and anything not counted is not a "many", but rather a "muc
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
1) Aptitude remembers intended actions, even if you change the package
states and/or configuration settings which prompted this behavior.
When in doubt, run "aptitude keep-all".
2) Aptitude tries to react immediately to changes in package states,
including t
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:11:21PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote:
> which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4) will perform better for desktop
> usage under occasional power failure circumstance? like recover from power
> failure and fragment after long time run.
> thanks in advance!
I ran into this. I
On 12/11/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 08:05:17PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> Hi Nik,
>
> On 12/10/06, Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I know this problem comes up
* Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 06:16 -0600]:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:11:21PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote:
> > which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4) will perform better for desktop
> > usage under occasional power failure circumstance? like recover from power
> > failure and f
On Monday 11 December 2006 18:09, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 06:16 -0600]:
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:11:21PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote:
> > > which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4) will perform better for
> > > desktop usage under occasional power
On Sunday 10 December 2006 23:10, Steve Kemp wrote:
>
> su -
> apt-get install module-assistant
> module-assistant prepare
> module-assistant build kqemu-source
> module-assistant install kqemu-source
> depmod -a
> modprobe kqemu
>
> Steve
Thanks, but I don't think that helped. This
I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
I
used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
created
2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
partition
too (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay into one
of the pa
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:25:47PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> On Monday 11 December 2006 18:09, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > * Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 06:16 -0600]:
> > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:11:21PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote:
> > > > which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4)
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:46:03 +, Chris Lale wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >1) Aptitude remembers intended actions, even if you change the package
> > states and/or configuration settings which prompted this behavior.
> > When in doubt, run "aptitude keep-all".
> >
> >2) A
I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred
or so recipients.
I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl".
I installed the package and looked at the example files in
"/usr/share/doc/libmail-bulkmail-perl", but I have been unable to
understand how
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:19:07AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >I've noticed the same kind of disputes in natural languages. For
> >example, English speakers usually perceive a clear semantic difference
> >between "many" and "much". Yet it's possible t
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred
> or so recipients.
>
> I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl".
> I installed the package and looked at the example files in
> "/
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots
> > without either a functioning X or a functioning net. udev complains
> > t
michael napisał(a):
I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
I
used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
created
2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
partition
too (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots
> > without either a functioning X or a functioning net. udev complains
> > t
On 12/11/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I ran into this. I started with ext2 (the standard) which got corrupted
and lost files with power failure. Went to ext3 (ext2 + journal) which
was better but __silently__ would lose files. Went to Reiserfs which
would get corrupted by rei
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred
> or so recipients.
I've been using Mailman (Python-based) for years with no significant
problems that weren't my own damn fault. Requires running an MTA.
--
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:15:35PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> > I recently installed Qemu, and later found out from the documentation
> > that I need to install KQemu too..for that acceleration thingy.
Did not know this was distributed on Debian. This is, of course, stated as
proprietary. Less
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:14 +0100, Jakub Narojczyk wrote:
> michael napisał(a):
>
> >I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
> >
> > I
> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
> > created
> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:38 +, michael wrote:
> I've not found 'fdisk' for Sarge/stable - is it better in anyway than
> parted, gpart?
Sorry - got confused there: apt-cache didn't show fdisk but I do have it
installed (from util-linux)
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On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:14 +0100, Jakub Narojczyk wrote:
> michael napisał(a):
>
> >I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
> >
> > I
> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
> > created
> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Happy Sunday Morning
>
> I've had yet another problem with the package downloads. This is the
> second time I've had a failure in a kernel package, 2.6.18 today, 2.6.17
> last week. The errors speak for them selves.
> _
>
Sven Arvidsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 16:53 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > I don't have any symlink for cdrecord on this etch/testing box. I found
> > out that it was gone when I tried to use an alias I have in .bashrc
> > to write a CD. It was news
On Dec 11, 9:00 am, "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred
> or so recipients.
>
> I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl".
> I installed the package and looked at the example files in
> "
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:46:03 +, Chris Lale wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
1) Aptitude remembers intended actions, even if you change the package
states and/or configuration settings which prompted this behavior.
When in doubt, run "aptitude keep-al
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:07:15PM -0500, rs wrote:
--- On Fri 12/08, Greg Folkert wrote:
If you want a USB POTS Modem, get a USB Serial Port dongle, then get a
Fully Serial Modem. It is very tough to make an External modem with a
(real) Serial port a "Winmodem" and still
Hello to all,
I'm going to do some playing (and heavy testing) with LVM over MD raid.
I want to try abusing several types of arrays with several types of file
systems so I have data handy should I ever need to use it.
I want to see which types of FS's are likely to fail in this setting
under hea
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:56:39 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote
>
> pro:~# mdadm --detail --scan
> ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=5 spares=1
> UUID=04a39ca8:0f07922a:5eb2e3a1:851b13b9
>devices=/dev/sda2,/dev/sdf2,/dev/sdd2,/dev/sdc2,/dev/sde2,
> /dev/sdb2
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-d
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Bruce:
> >
> > 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
>
> On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many
> services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being
> install
> Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and
> now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be
> working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but
> the log shows..
Hi,
A few suggestions, apologies in advance if you already have tried
On Monday 11 December 2006 07:57, Tim Post wrote:
> My question is , what is the correct way to calculate the physical
> extent size of a volume group relative to the size of the array?
From man vgcreate:
If the volume group metadata uses lvm1 format, extents can vary
in size from 8KB to 1
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:00:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/10/06 12:41, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Roll through any stop signs without coming to a full and complete stop
> > in your car lately? You broke the law. Anyone see it (or care)?
> >
> > Just like everything in life, the stakes may
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> I tried starting spamassassin, but get this message:
>
> debian:/home/mark# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
> SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin
> debian:/home/mark# locate /etc/default/spamassas
Hello David.
David Baron, 11.12.2006 15:21:
>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:15:35PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
>>> I recently installed Qemu, and later found out from the documentation
>>> that I need to install KQemu too..for that acceleration thingy.
>
> Did not know this was distributed on Debian.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl".
The "lib" at the start means it's a library. You haven't installed a
program, you've installed a collection of predefined functions which can
be used to writ
On Monday 11 December 2006 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots
> > > without either
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. I installed sylpheed-claws-spamassassin, and read what I could
> find on it, and on spamassassin, on my computer. Alas, Sylpheed-claws
> is not picking up any of the spam.
>
> I tried starting spamassassin, but get this
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from
> > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC.
>
> Actually
> I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
>
> I
> used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
> created
> 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
> partition
> too (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay into one
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:51:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from
> > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC.
>
> Interest
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:38:30PM -, michael wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
> >
> > I
> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
> > created
> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
> > partition
>
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:25:30AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have some trouble with samba together with a flaky windows NT 4.0
> Server: Quite often the server crashes and can't be reached again until it
> is rebooted. We mount some smb shares from that server and when the
Hello.
I'm trying to install a nvidia driver and have run into some issues
with getting the installer to locate my header sources.
I'm running etch if it matters.
I've installed the linux-source and linux-headers packages for my
kernel with apt-get. Yet, the installer still says it can't find
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
tremendous respect for the stable way Pat Volkerding put it together and
maint
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:49:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do.
> >
> > mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
> > (or other things, are there
Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff
but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel
revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade"
wanted to install this new kernel AND remove my 2.6.16 kernel revision
(which understandably wa
hello andy,
A document that is very handy " Debian Reference "
" apt-get install debian-reference-en "
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to
Sven Arvidsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and
> > now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be
> > working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but
> > the log shows..
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:38:30PM -, michael wrote:
>> > I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
>> >
>> > I
>> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
>> > created
>> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
>> > par
Amit Joshi wrote:
>> debian:/usr/src# module-assistant install kqemu-source
>> Selecting previously deselected package kqemu-modules-2.6.17-2-686.
>> (Reading database ... 72137 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking kqemu-modules-2.6.17-2-686 (from
>> .../kqemu-modules-2.6.17-2-
For what it's worth - I resized (twice) my XP partition - then, first
established a Debian partition, then "grew" it.
A few weeks ago, I used Qtparted via Knoppix to resize the XP partition on
my 80GB HD to allow a Debian install (25GB). Last night, I used Gparted to
further shrink the XP partit
Peter Colton wrote:
hello andy,
A document that is very handy " Debian Reference "
" apt-get install debian-reference-en "
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24:44AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> I'm perfectly happy with the
> package manager leaving my currently installed kernels alone while
> simultaneously adding newer kernel versions and releases. If I want to
> remove old kernels at some point, I'll do so explicitely. A
Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Here is the thing. You need to update your qemu.
besides, running it on kernel previous than 2.6.18-3 is unsupported.
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Hello Daniel.
Daniel Baumann, 11.12.2006 20:56:
> Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> Here is the thing. You need to update your qemu.
>
> besides, running it on kernel previous than 2.6.18-3 is unsupported.
But you can build it on your own from source of course.
Regards, Mathias
PS: Do you know what ha
->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Andrew Sackville-West--
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24:44AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> > I'm perfectly happy with the
> > package manager leaving my currently installed kernels alone while
> > simultaneously adding newer kernel versions and
Mathias Brodala wrote:
> But you can build it on your own from source of course.
Yes, but I did not and will not test it with old kernels. So, there
could be some bugs, maybe..
> PS: Do you know what happened to your mailinglist on Debian-Unofficial?
> There’s
> only a 404 now …
Yes, I'm moving
Andrei Popescu:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >
> > On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many
> > services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being
> > installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FT
Hi,
I am running sid, and i have the standard gtk2 packages (gtk2, atk pango etc
including the development packages) except for gtkglext. I want to compile the
latest version of gtkglext and gtkglextmm from source.
when i run ./configure all is fine until
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
congrats andy and welcome!
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:48:13PM +, andy wrote:
> >>Debian Etch brings the user. This is *so* very cool.
word to the wise. do some reading and get a knowledge of the
differences between "etch" and "testing" and "stable" and tracking the
various flavors of deb. As
Hello Daniel.
Daniel Baumann, 11.12.2006 21:13:
> Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> But you can build it on your own from source of course.
>
> Yes, but I did not and will not test it with old kernels. So, there
> could be some bugs, maybe..
I always did and had no problems. (I only sometimes forgot to
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is released as 'stable'.
So,
Hi,
already solved the problem with Skype audio? If not, try downloading
alsa-oss (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/alsa-oss) and run
skype typing 'aoss skype'. This solved the problem for me.
Hope it helps...
Regards,
astro
Hello, where I can find xgl packages? Please don't speak to me
about aiglx my horrible ati can't elaborate with it :( .
Thanks in advance
Christos
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On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:04 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol:
> _glapi_Dispatch
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7)
That doesn't look good, bu
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
> I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
> welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
> and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, but I suggest you
check out
Hi fellow users of debian,
I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I understand
why and wanted to know if others though that my suggestion wou
Paul Yeatman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff
> but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel
> revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade"
> wanted to install this new ke
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, b
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Bruce:
1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many
services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is bei
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is re
Dear Debian folks,
I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM.
Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005
i686 GNU/Linux
uname says that I am running the 2.4.27-2 kernel. During the installation
the installer decided to use thi
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:50:08PM +0200, Margiolas Christos wrote:
> Hello, where I can find xgl packages? Please don't speak to me
> about aiglx my horrible ati can't elaborate with it :( .
> Thanks in advance
> Christos
>
http://wiki.debian.org/Xgl
Basically, you need to get it yourself a
Hello.
Margiolas Christos, 11.12.2006 21:50:
> Hello, where I can find xgl packages? Please don't speak to me
> about aiglx my horrible ati can't elaborate with it :( .
What ATI are you talking about? My Radeon 9600 works rather well with AIGLX and
the compositor of Xfwm4.
Regards, Mathias
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:01:52PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi fellow users of debian,
> I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
> about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
> description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I under
Mike McCarty:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by
>> some Windows firewalls).
>
> A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world,
> but that does not mean that there is no service "listening"
> on it.
"Stealthed" almost al
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >>Bruce:
> >>
> >>>1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
> >>
> >>On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
>
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
> steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality from
www.debian-multimedia.org. I be
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:01 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
> about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
> description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I understand
> why and wanted to know if ot
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
won't find these in the official repositories. You must add this to
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality fro
Hello,
I wondered if anyone can help me fix things. I think I might have
misconfigured something.
I clearly remember getting big warnings and a _question_ that allows
me to break off when installing a kernel that replaces the currently
running version. But nowadays when I upgrade packages (intera
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Mike McCarty:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by
some Windows firewalls).
A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world,
but that does not mean that there is no service "listening"
on it.
"Stealthe
Welcome!
I too started with Slackware some ten years ago or so and in '99
started with Debian Slink, 2.1 and quickly moved to Potato, 2.2, when
it was released. You will quickly discover the "Debian Way" to system
administration. Debconf helps a lot amd packages generally have
sensible defaults
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