On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:37:09PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
informations. With apt-cache if I am running my debian, or with
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=foobar if I am not using
A shortcut for this is http://packages.debian.org/packagename
Cheers,
Tom
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When I decided to move TO Debian, one of my concerns was to be on a
distro that sets its way, not a distro that follows. Debian moto is The
Universal Operating System. And that is the appeal to me.
I love standards. I would give my kingdom to have only .deb instead
of 3 or 4 (RPM, tar.gz,
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 10:18 +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote:
There is Linux Standard Base which claim to be a standard for distros.
Which reminds me of the file system hierarchy issue, on my multi-boot
I've got Linux were e.g. /media is
/media/directory
/media/username/directory
There is Linux Standard Base which claim to be a standard for distros.
Which reminds me of the file system hierarchy issue, on my multi-boot
I've got Linux were e.g. /media is
/media/directory
/media/username/directory
/run/media/username/directory
I can not really see the point of having
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Also very nice is the output of
$ ls -l /bin/sh
for Ubuntu it's not bash.
For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash
is
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:53:30PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote:
People can use other things than bash, I do not see the problem. And I
think that someday I'll try zsh or csh. When I'll have the time :D
You should go really left-field and try rc! (but not for /bin/sh.)
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On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 12:02 +, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Also very nice is the output of
$ ls -l /bin/sh
for Ubuntu it's not bash.
For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
to dash by default
Le Mar 27 novembre 2012 14:29, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 12:02 +, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Also very nice is the output of
$ ls -l /bin/sh
for Ubuntu it's not bash.
For modern Debian installations it's not
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:29:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Does it really carry weight?
With sysvinit, which spawns a lot of sh instances, yes. With something like
systemd, no - it tries to solve the same problem in part by not spawning a
shell lots of times.
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On Tuesday 27 November 2012 12:02:34 Jon Dowland wrote:
For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash
is smaller and faster to load than bash).
Thanks for the information, Jon. I hadn't realised
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:53:30PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote:
People can use other things than bash, I do not see the problem. And I
think that someday I'll try zsh or csh. When I'll have the time :D
You should go really
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com writes:
On Tuesday 27 November 2012 12:02:34 Jon Dowland wrote:
For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash
is smaller and faster to load than bash).
Thanks
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:17:50PM -0300, Beco wrote:
Never heard of it. What is rc?
A shell. It's packaged in Debian, oddly enough in package 'rc'.
May I suggest you try apt-cache show rc, or google?
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:11:54PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Thanks for the information, Jon. I hadn't realised that! I've merrily
carried on using bash. :-/
Bash is a lot friendlier and better suited as a login or interactive
shell. The startup time is not so important for that situation.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:53:30PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote:
People can use other things than bash, I do not see the problem. And I
think that someday I'll try zsh
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:17:50PM -0300, Beco wrote:
Never heard of it. What is rc?
A shell. It's packaged in Debian, oddly enough in package 'rc'.
May I suggest you try apt-cache show rc, or google?
Thanks!
I tried
I tried google, but without more keywords, rc was too little to
search.
When I search for a package's description, I first use debian's
informations. With apt-cache if I am running my debian, or with
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=foobar if I am not using it.
The 2nd is really
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:43:00PM -0300, Beco wrote:
I tried google, but without more keywords, rc was too little to search.
Good point, sorry.
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On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:37 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
I tried google, but without more keywords, rc was too little to
search.
When I search for a package's description, I first use debian's
informations. With apt-cache if I am running my debian, or with
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