Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
On 08/04/2010 08:31 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
What do you do if you had access to just one machine (say your personal
laptop) and don't have the luxury of running multiple machines (one for
testing and one for production etc.,)? Sometimes, it is better/practical
On 6.8.2010 18:35, PaulNM wrote:
If you'll be running the VM only when logged in, virtualbox is
definitely preferred. If you need to run headless servers that start
automatically on bootup, qemu is the way to go.
I use VirtualBox just like you described, but I use VMWare Server 2.0
for
Jari Fredriksson wrote:
On 6.8.2010 18:35, PaulNM wrote:
If you'll be running the VM only when logged in, virtualbox is
definitely preferred. If you need to run headless servers that start
automatically on bootup, qemu is the way to go.
I use VirtualBox just like you described, but I use
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:09:17PM -0400, PaulNM wrote:
Jari Fredriksson wrote:
On 6.8.2010 18:35, PaulNM wrote:
If you'll be running the VM only when logged in, virtualbox is
definitely preferred. If you need to run headless servers that start
automatically on bootup, qemu is the way to
Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
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On 08/03/2010 08:57 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
I always start upgrading well before the new release is made. I start by
upgrading the packages that I use most of the time (ex:- iceweasel, vim,
konsole, knode
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On 08/04/2010 08:31 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
What do you do if you had access to just one machine (say your personal
laptop) and don't have the luxury of running multiple machines (one for
testing and one for production etc.,)?
Johnny wrote:
Hi
I am sorry if someone has already has asked this ? on the list
When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I use my computer daily
I always start upgrading well before the new release is made. I start by
upgrading the packages that I use most of the time (ex:-
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On 08/03/2010 08:57 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
I always start upgrading well before the new release is made. I start by
upgrading the packages that I use most of the time (ex:- iceweasel, vim,
konsole, knode etc.,). That way if there is a
Paul Cartwright schreef:
thanks for clearing that up for all the info! I love the stable lenny
release, I dread upgrading the kernel, mainly because of the NVIDIA driver..
not sure why, but it seems that every time I changed the kernel, besides X not
working, it also made my network stop...
On Wed July 21 2010, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
In squeeze, they shipped a dkms-version of the nvidia drivers, and it
actually works. I've updated my kernel quite a few times and didn't had
to do any 'm-a a-i nvidia'.
Does your network card also require some alternative driver?
well, not
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:13:10 Paul Cartwright wrote:
in
squeeze is KDE changed to KDE4 ?
Yes - which is why I am still running Lenny.
Lisi
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Paul Cartwright schreef:
On Wed July 21 2010, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
In squeeze, they shipped a dkms-version of the nvidia drivers, and it
actually works. I've updated my kernel quite a few times and didn't had
to do any 'm-a a-i nvidia'.
Does your network card also require some alternative
On Jul 21, 2010, at 4:45 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Paul Cartwright schreef:
On Wed July 21 2010, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
In squeeze, they shipped a dkms-version of the nvidia drivers, and it
actually works. I've updated my kernel quite a few times and didn't had
to do any 'm-a a-i nvidia'.
On Wed July 21 2010, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
Could you not just hold back the KDE3 to KDE4 upgrade when you upgrade
Debian?
the problem is applications that require KDE4 libs.. I've already run into
that more than once.In the end, I'm sure I will have to upgrade to KDE4, but
I know my wife
On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Wed July 21 2010, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
Could you not just hold back the KDE3 to KDE4 upgrade when you upgrade
Debian?
the problem is applications that require KDE4 libs.. I've already run into
that more than once.In the end, I'm
On Wed July 21 2010, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
This reminds me of when they started messing with GNOME and started
switching defaults and ended up alienating a lot of true Linux users (this
was mostly Ubuntu using their sway to do it.)
I was always a KDE user, through a few years of learning SUSE,
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:45:06 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
In
the long run, you'll either have to accept KDE4 or use the fork of KDE
3.5 at http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/.
Or choose something else. CLI? Fluxbox? Another DE? Trinity looks
promissing, but seems to be focussed on Ubuntu.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:45:06 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
In
the long run, you'll either have to accept KDE4 or use the fork of KDE
3.5 at http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/.
Or choose something else. CLI? Fluxbox? Another DE?
On Tue July 20 2010, you wrote:
$ printf 'You are ' \
{
[ $(aptitude search '~S ~i ~Alenny-backports' | wc -l) -ge 1 ]
|| \ printf 'not '
} \
printf 'using lenny-backports.\n'
You are using lenny-backports.
The script takes that output and runs it through
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 03:56:08 Paul Cartwright wrote:
so if I wanted the LIST of packages that I have installed using backports,
it would be like this?
$ aptitude search '~S ~i ~Alenny-backports'
i libmysqlclient-dev - MySQL database development files
i A libmysqlclient16
On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I tend to use queries like this on my mixed system to determine how far
I've drifted from stable. Right now, on my laptop, 686/1312 packages are
from stable, 100/1312 are from backports, and 526/1312 are from testing.
Once I'm running mostly
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 05:55:37 Paul Cartwright wrote:
back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only
have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule,
and I assume now is too early to upgrade?
Yes. Wait until the official release
On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only
have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule,
and I assume now is too early to upgrade?
Yes. Wait until the official release announcement.
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 10:52:57 Johnny wrote:
I am sorry if someone has already has asked this ? on the list
When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I use my computer daily
Are you happy with Lenny? Are you using lenny-backports?
If you are happy with Lenny and are not using
On Mon July 19 2010, you wrote:
You should assume you are using lenny-backports.
I am, I have this in my sources.list file:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
It is possible you do not have any software installed from that repository,
which means it
On Monday 19 July 2010 15:09:58 Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon July 19 2010, you wrote:
You should assume you are using lenny-backports.
I am, I have this in my sources.list file:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
It is possible you do not have
Johnny:
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 17:52:57 Johnny wrote:
Hi
I am sorry if someone has already has asked this ? on the list
When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I use my computer daily
What do you mean by best? Maybe what is best for you is not best for
others.
That's the
Hi
I am sorry if someone has already has asked this ? on the list
When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I use my computer daily
Johnny
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On 07/14/2010 11:52 AM, Johnny wrote:
Hi
I am sorry if someone has already has asked this ? on the list
When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I use my computer daily
Johnny
The question is rather vague...
After
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:22:11 -0400 (EDT), Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
On 07/14/2010 11:52 AM, Johnny wrote:
When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I use my computer daily
After squeeze becomes the stable release and lenny becomes old stable.
At this time, there will be squeeze
Stephen Powell put forth on 7/14/2010 12:28 PM:
I know, for example, that there will
be boot loader issues involving hook scripts, etc. And these are not
documented in the Lenny release notes.
Stephen, I found the following somewhat related information a bit refreshing.
I'm hoping it's a
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