Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-10 Thread Timm Murray
David McNab wrote on 5/6/01 3:19 pm: >Can someone please >recommend the best Linux >or Linuces for Freenet, and >in general. (intel platform). Debian. Not the easiest for initial setup, but you'll thank yourself later because your problems with package dependencies are greatly reduced. > >

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Alistair Speirs
i found progeny debian very easy to install. you can get it from www.progeny.com . ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread David McNab
> > > > The Freenet package is part of Debian now > > > Holy shit - what a coup! > > Not forgetting of course that Debian can be installed directly > > from Freenet, thanks to EOF. > > Which does create a slight chicken and egg issue ;-) > Chicken omlette washed down with a cup of mocha java. Oh,

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread David McNab
From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:49:58PM +0100, Leo Howell wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:39:05AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > > > The Freenet package is part of Debian now > > > > Holy shit - what a coup! > > Not forgetting of course that Debian can be inst

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:49:58PM +0100, Leo Howell wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:39:05AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > > > The Freenet package is part of Debian now > > > > Holy shit - what a coup! > > Not forgetting of course that Debian can be installed directly > from Freenet, thanks to

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Mr . Bad
> "GW" == Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Me> The Freenet package is part of Debian now GW> Version 0.3.8.1. The newest version of Freenet isn't packaged GW> yet. Grrr. d00d, cut me some slack. How many other .deb's get out even the week of the release, much less 3-4

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread David McNab
tortured in prison for publishing pro-democracy essays on the web just has to *think* he's free and - hey presto! - he's conceptually free! - Original Message - From: "Mark J. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 07, 20

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Mark J. Roberts
On 6 May 2001, Mr.Bad wrote: > The Freenet package is part of Debian now, and can be installed using > this command: > > apt-get install freenet > > Which, like, how can that get easier? My Pure Concept Linux system is way easier. I simply *think* about having an anonymous, uncensorable

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
David McNab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The Freenet package is part of Debian now Version 0.3.8.1. The newest version of Freenet isn't packaged yet. > Holy shit - what a coup! jekyll:~$ apt-cache search . | wc 7058 56338 378800 Debian GNU/Linux (unstable). Over 7000 packages and gr

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Leo Howell
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:39:05AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > > The Freenet package is part of Debian now > > Holy shit - what a coup! Not forgetting of course that Debian can be installed directly from Freenet, thanks to EOF. -- Leo Howell M5AKW free

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread David McNab
> The Freenet package is part of Debian now Holy shit - what a coup! - Original Message - From: "Mr.Bad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux? > >>>&g

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Mr . Bad
> "IC" == Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: IC> Generally, Debian gives you more control, but Redhat is easier IC> for the newbie. That's changing all the time, though. The Freenet package is part of Debian now, and can be installed using this command: apt-get install

Re: [freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:17:12AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > Can someone please recommend the best Linux or Linuces for Freenet, > and in general. (intel platform). Both Debian and Redhat have few problems, you just install a JDK (I prefer IBM's although it isn't OpenSource), and off you go. G

[freenet-chat] Best flavour of Linux?

2001-05-06 Thread David McNab
Can someone please recommend the best Linux or Linuces for Freenet, and in general. (intel platform).   (I tried installing Mandrake 8.0, but it's got some serious gaps - I sense I could be hacking the kernel for months to get all my devices recognised).   It's no news that I'm painfully new