Re: [DNG] Making sense of C pointer syntax.

2016-04-15 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, Again, thanks for taking some of your time to explain this to me. Sorry for not replying immediately. The past two weeks I couldn't use any of my computers. Edward On 03/04/2016, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 02:30:24PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > [cut] > >> >> > You never retur

Re: [DNG] Debian is no longer GNU/Linux?

2016-04-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 06:18:49PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > > I believe that the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a relatively old project, > > indeed (it dates back to 2009, IIRC), even if it looks abandoned at > > the moment (or not actively developed, at least). I don't know whether > > they are now re

Re: [DNG] Slim GUI greeter with devuan theme

2016-04-15 Thread hellekin
On 04/14/2016 10:47 AM, Boruch Baum wrote: > > https://git.devuan.org/hellekin/slim/issues/1 > I moved the issue where it belongs: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/slim/issues/10 == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture

[DNG] Open Kernels (was: Debian is no longer GNU/Linux?)

2016-04-15 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Lars Noodén writes: [...] > I ran into minor graphics problems last year when I tried Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD on a notebook, but other than that it seems good to go. If > I had servers, I would be running it already. Until a few years ago, the Debian-on-FreeBSD project actually still had a web p

[DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread dev
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could offer some clarity on how best to apply patches on Debian derived systems? There are so many options across apt-get and aptitude... I cannot make sense of them all: apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get safe-upgrade aptitude upgrade apti

Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread Mitt Green
dev wrote: I was wondering if anyone could offer some clarity on how best to apply patches on Debian derived systems? There are so many options across apt-get and aptitude... I cannot make sense of them all: apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get safe-upgrade aptitude upgrade ap

Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread Simon Hobson
dev wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could offer some clarity on how best to apply > patches on Debian derived systems? There are so many options across apt-get > and aptitude... I cannot make sense of them all: > > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade > apt-get safe-upgrade > aptitude

Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread dev
On 04/15/2016 03:27 PM, Mitt Green wrote: dev wrote: apt-get safe-upgrade "apt safe-upgrade" doesn't exist, only "aptitude safe-upgrade"; Ah, yes. My mistake. Thank you for this and the related insight. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne

Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread Linux O'Beardly
For what it's worth, much of the apt vs aptitude is preference and opinion. However, aptitude does bit better of a job resolving dependencies and preventing them from breaking your system. I personally have never been a fan of aptitude, so I stick to the standard apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrad

Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread dev
On 04/15/2016 03:36 PM, Linux O'Beardly wrote: For what it's worth, much of the apt vs aptitude is preference and opinion. However, aptitude does bit better of a job resolving dependencies and preventing them from breaking your system. Yes, That's what I've always read so I have always used a