Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-06 Thread Graham Kettlewell
Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > > I think that it is really cool, spiffy, neato that RH 7.2 installs and > > pretty much just works. For the last three installs of 7.2 I did, I > > *needed* to make only a couple of little tweaks to get basic > > functionality going. This is a good thing. I wor

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Riku Meskanen
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-> Hash: SHA1 > > Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: > > But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little > > brains are unable to decypzer the scripts who configure the network > > in RedHat

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Sun, 5 May 2002 11:52:43 -0500 "Ronald W. Heiby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: > > But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little > > brains are unable to decypzer the scripts w

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: > But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little > brains are unable to decypzer the scripts who configure the network > in RedHat or Mandrake and that is why they want a bare bones dist

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On 03 May 2002 22:39:00 +0100 Michel Alexandre Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 22:55, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > I am getting tired of the asssimilation "easy distribution" with > > "distro for newbies". It has also as a side effect some people > > believe that c

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-04 Thread John Summerfield
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 15:42, John Summerfield wrote: > > Now you can have 'openoffice.org' 1.0. > > > > > Good to see I'm the only one who sees having 'dot' something in every > product a major irritance :p I think (why am I starting everything with those words?) there is a trademark problem

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-04 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 15:42, John Summerfield wrote: > Now you can have 'openoffice.org' 1.0. > > Good to see I'm the only one who sees having 'dot' something in every product a major irritance :p .NET . Sun, the dot in dot com . OpenOffice.org . ehm... RedHat.com Linux.NET (R) (TM)? :P -- Mi

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-03 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 22:55, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > I am getting tired of the asssimilation "easy distribution" with > "distro for newbies". It has also as a side effect some people > believe that chnaging to a difficult distribution will maek them > as elite. To begin with difficult d

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-03 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Most of the red hat disks I've obtained from magazines or in the back > of books. I recently purchased a red hat box, for the copy of > StarOffice included. I've tried to download copies, but have yet to > reach success. Now you can have 'openoffice.org' 1.0. --

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-03 Thread Benjamin Burger
>From: Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian >Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:16:33 +1000 > >I found this little article in my mail and >would like to hear any thoughts? >http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/tx

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Thu, 2 May 2002 15:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002-05-02, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > :I found this little article in my mail and > :would like to hear any thoughts? > :http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html > > => Last updated on 0

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002-05-02, Kevin Waterson wrote: > stuff working. Nothing for Linux newbies. The text > mode installer > asks many specific questions about graphics adapter > and monitor > capabilities, that reminded me of old Slackware. ?!? There is no auto-

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On 2002-05-02, Kevin Waterson wrote: :I found this little article in my mail and :would like to hear any thoughts? :http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html => Last updated on 06/11/1998! Installing Debian GNU/Linux "Woody" (the "testing" distribution that will become 3.0 eve

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread John Summerfield
> I found this little article in my mail and > would like to hear any thoughts? > http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html A mate downloaded the latest a few weeks ago. Installing it was all the intro I needed. 2.2 kernel indeed! Almost certainly it won't run on my Athlon (Vi

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Kevin Waterson wrote: > I found this little article in my mail and > would like to hear any thoughts? > http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html "unconvincing" -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] __

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
"KW" == Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> I found this little article in my mail and KW> would like to hear any thoughts? KW> http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html Well, for one the comments were made nearly 4 years ago, so alternatives has been ported to