Re: aptitude upgrade
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu < > andreimpope...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: > >> > > >> > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop > install > >> > w/ > >> > no "server" services? > >> > >> It's being upgraded, which means it is already installed on your system. > >> Try 'aptitude why apache2.2-bin', maybe it will shed some light on why > >> it is installed. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Andrei > >> -- > >> Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > > > > > > Ya I just did that and it was installed because of gnome I don't > > remember installing gnome ... when I installed my laptop, I chose no WM > nor > > X as I wanted to learn how to do it *the debian way* using > apt-get/aptitude. > > I went from X to fluxbox and gnome wasn't an inbetween. I imagine some > deps > > where installed with other packages but upon checking I have a full > > gnome install and I *know* I didn't install it, so I am left scratching > my > > head. > > [snip] > > root@Blackdragon:~# aptitude why apache2.2-bin > > i gnome Depends gnome-desktop-environment (= > 1:2.30+7) > > i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends gnome-user-share (>= 2.30) > > i A gnome-user-share Depends apache2.2-bin > > root@Blackdragon:~# > > [/snip] > > > > -- > > > > > > Did you know... > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > but what's worse is when you play it forward > > ...it installs Windows 2000 > >-- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org > > > Do you have GDM installed by chance? I noticed the same thing on my > XFCE install and the only thing I could trace to gnome dependencies > was GDM. Indeed, I do have gdm3 it appears I have a full gnome install but why does gdm depend on a webserver? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: aptitude upgrade
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install > w/ > > no "server" services? > > It's being upgraded, which means it is already installed on your system. > Try 'aptitude why apache2.2-bin', maybe it will shed some light on why > it is installed. > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > Ya I just did that and it was installed because of gnome I don't remember installing gnome ... when I installed my laptop, I chose no WM nor X as I wanted to learn how to do it *the debian way* using apt-get/aptitude. I went from X to fluxbox and gnome wasn't an inbetween. I imagine some deps where installed with other packages but upon checking I have a full gnome install and I *know* I didn't install it, so I am left scratching my head. [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# aptitude why apache2.2-bin i gnome Depends gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.30+7) i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends gnome-user-share (>= 2.30) i A gnome-user-share Depends apache2.2-bin root@Blackdragon:~# [/snip] -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
aptitude upgrade
My laptop was off for about a week and when I fired it up today, I ran an update and then an upgrade on my squeeze install and today I noticed this [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: apache2.2-bin bind9-host dnsutils gdm3 google-chrome-stable host libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 liblwres60 libmozjs2d libnss3-1d xulrunner-1.9.1 15 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 1,000 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. root@Blackdragon:~# [/snip] So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install w/ no "server" services? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Cmake on Knoppix
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:56 PM, John Culleton wrote: Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile > svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from > conventional ./configure, make, make install sequence to a cmake based > system. I can't seem to be able to download cmake using apt-get. Is it > cataloged under another name? > -- > John Culleton > Create Book Covers with Scribus: > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html A quick search revealed this ... root@debian:~# aptitude search cmake p cmake - a cross-platform, open-source make system p cmake-curses-gui- curses based user interface for CMake (ccmake) p cmake-data - CMake data files (modules, templates and documentation) p cmake-dbg - debugging symbols for CMake p cmake-doc - extended documentation in various formats for CMake v cmake-gui - p cmake-qt-gui- Qt4 based user interface for CMake (cmake-gui) p icmake - Intelligent C-like MAKEr, or the ICce MAKE utility p icmake-doc - Documenation files for icmake root@debian:~# aptitude download cmake Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main cmake amd64 2.8.4+dfsg.1-2 [4,247 kB] Fetched 4,247 kB in 13s (325 kB/s) root@debian:~# -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Inkscape error
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Marcelo Laia wrote: 2011/3/27 Chris Brennan : > > I would install -0.1-1 > > There are some thing wrong here! > > -0.1-1 version of libwpg isn't in testing repositories. So, how > inkscape in testing flavor needs this version? > > But, I downloaded libwpg-0.1-1 from stable and instal it manually. > > Now, inkscape tell me other shared lib that is on stable repositories too! > > inael@inael:~/Downloads$ inkscape > inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libwpd-0.8.so.8: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > inael@inael:~/Downloads$ > > inael:/home/inael# aptitude search libwpd > i A libwpd-0.9-9- Library for handling WordPerfect > documents > i libwpd-dev - Library for handling WordPerfect > documents > p libwpd-doc - Library for handling WordPerfect > documents > p libwpd-tools- Tools from libwpd for converting > WordPerfe > c libwpd8c2a - Library for handling WordPerfect > documents > inael:/home/inael# > > inkscape in testing have dependencies that are only in stable repositories! > > Thank you very much! > > Marcelo > I am going to take a stab in the dark here and ask, are you by any chance mixing stable/testing in sources.list? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Inkscape error
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Marcelo Laia wrote: 2011/3/27 Chris Brennan : > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Marcelo Laia > wrote: > > > > rebuild/reinstall the missing library and then try inkscape again > > root@debian:~# aptitude search libwpg > > p libwpg-0.2- - WordPerfect graphics > > p libwpg-dev - WordPerfect graphics > > p libwpg-doc - WordPerfect graphics > > p libwpg-tool - Tools from libwpg for > > root@debian:~# > > At a minimum you should need libwpg-0.2 and libwpg-dev, although -tool > and > > -doc can't hurt if you have the space to spare. > > > Hi Chris, > > I already have this ones installed! > > inael:/home/inael# aptitude search libwpg > c libwpg-0.1-1- WordPerfect graphics import/convert > librar > i A libwpg-0.2-2- WordPerfect graphics import/convert > librar > i libwpg-dev - WordPerfect graphics import/convert > librar > p libwpg-doc - WordPerfect graphics import/convert > librar > i libwpg-tools- Tools from libwpg for converting WP > Graphi > inael:/home/inael# > > Any other help? > > Marcelo > Given the fact of the original error, marcella@inael:~$ inkscape inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libwpg-0.1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory marcella@inael:~$ I would install -0.1-1 -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Inkscape error
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Marcelo Laia wrote: Hi, > > I try to load inkscape, but I got this error: > > marcella@inael:~$ inkscape > inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libwpg-0.1.so.1: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > marcella@inael:~$ > > I have googled, but not found any help. > > Could you help me? > > Tank you very much > > Marcelo rebuild/reinstall the missing library and then try inkscape again root@debian:~# aptitude search libwpg p libwpg-0.2- - WordPerfect graphics p libwpg-dev - WordPerfect graphics p libwpg-doc - WordPerfect graphics p libwpg-tool - Tools from libwpg for root@debian:~# At a minimum you should need libwpg-0.2 and libwpg-dev, although -tool and -doc can't hurt if you have the space to spare. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: LXDE fetch Failures
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 22 mar 11, 16:05:12, Chris Brennan wrote: > > I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till > the > > very end, when it fails to find > > > > [snip] > > E: Failed to fetch > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb > > : > > 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] > > wheezy already moved to 3.5.8~dfsg-1. You might want to do an > apt-get/aptitude update first ;) That did the trick, I wonder what happened, I did a upgrade yesterday and I checked today when I fired the VM up, no new files but when I passed update today I got something like 3000 new packages available I didn't realize I had that many packages installed in the VM to begin with lol. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
LXDE fetch Failures
I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till the
very end, when it fails to find
[snip]
E: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb
:
404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80]
root@debian:~# aptitude install lxde
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gvfs-backends{a} libsmbclient{a} libwbclient0{a} lxde lxde-core{a}
pcmanfm{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
arj{u} libgphoto2-l10n{u} manpages-dev{u}
0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,288 kB/2,851 kB of archives. After unpacking 2,753 kB will be
used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Err http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libwbclient0 amd64
2:3.5.6~dfsg-5
404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80]
Err http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libsmbclient amd64
2:3.5.6~dfsg-5
404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80]
(Reading database ... 48900 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing arj ...
Removing libgphoto2-l10n ...
Removing manpages-dev ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
E: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb
:
404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80]
root@debian:~#
[/snip]
--
Did you know...
If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages,
but what's worse is when you play it forward
...it installs Windows 2000
-- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: sources.list
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Alan Hutchinson wrote: Hi there I was wondering you could enlighten me regarding the > "APT/SOURCES.LIST", I inadvertently messed them up, and when I go to do an > upgrade I get about 400 packages or so, it all started ,when I was tinkering > with my apt sources.list,and had not a clue what I was doing, I added a new > line for squeeze packages update ,which line should I comment out ,of my apt > sources.list ? > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 > 20101127-16:55]/ lenny main > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 > 20101127-16:55]/ lenny main > > deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian/ lenny main > deb-src http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian/ lenny main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main > > deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main > deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main > It's assumed then that you are still using Debian Lenny? > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > This is your problem right here. Your pulling all of Squeezes packages in, on top of your oldstable (Lenny) install, remove these lines unless you intend on actually upgrading your system and moving from oldstable (Lenny) to currentstable (Squeeze). > "sources.list.save" 22L, 828C Your using VIM. Try adding this to your .vimrc syntax on " this directive gets no set, add it asis. set backup " make backup files set backupdir=~/.vim/backup " where to put backup files set directory=~/.vim/tmp " directory to place swap files in I'm the OP for this thread, I took what I learned from this thread and successfully moved my VM from Squeeze to Wheezy (Testing) without issue. I used https://sites.google.com/site/mydebiansourceslist/ as my reference point and carefully added the extra repo's I wanted, but it gave me enough of a clue on what to change to move from Squeeze to Wheezy. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?
Sshfs requires fusefs to function, syntax is the same as SSH/sftp/scp. -- Sent from my Droid On Mar 19, 2011 11:48 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:48:22 -0700 > "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Celejar wrote: >> >> > I want to set up a network filesystem to share files between several >> > linux systems (Debian & OpenWrt). Judging from what I see on the list >> >> Do you actually need all the features of a typical shared filesystem? >> If not, you might look at sshfs, which will allow individual users to >> mount remote filesystems over SSH using per-user authentication. > > I did consider sshfs, but for some reason, it won't work; when I try to > connect from my linux system to the OpenWrt box, all I get is the less > than helpful error "remote host has disconnected". ssh works fine > between the two boxes (using public / private keys), and I've used sshfs > before between two Debian boxes. > > Celejar > -- > foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110319234808.aa5c5d2f.cele...@gmail.com >
Re: Debian mini CDs
Having a professionally pressed multi-arch cd/DVD would be much more visually appealing and creditable when you walk into an office to do something. -- Sent from my Droid (sorry for the top-post, it's my phone.) On Mar 19, 2011 10:06 PM, "Andrew McGlashan" < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > Gabor Kum wrote: >> As a member of the Debian CD project (www.debiancd.org) I would like to >> let you know that we are now shipping Squeeze netinst mini CDs for the >> i386 and for the amd64 architectures. > > Just a suggestion, why not have multi-arch ISO there too? > > I download my own ISO files, but I do like what you offer. > > -- > Kind Regards > AndrewM > > Andrew McGlashan > Broadband Solutions now including VoIP > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8560d6.5020...@affinityvision.com.au >
Re: irc.debian.org
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Mario . wrote: irc.debian.org seems to be blocking mibbit.com, a web based chat client, I > can't enter #debian. > The error message is: > > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Found your hostname > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Got Ident response > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net002: | [0] foto, [1] Your host is > oxygen.oftc.net[66.184.117.12/6667], running version > hybrid-7.2.2+oftc1.6.8 > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net003: | [0] foto, [1] This server was created > Feb 12 2010 at 19:34:44 > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net004: | [0] foto, [1] oxygen.oftc.net, [2] > hybrid-7.2.2+oftc1.6.8, [3] CDGPRSabcdfgiklnorsuwxyz, [4] biklmnopstveI, [5] > bkloveI > > ... > > You are banned from the channel #debian > > I tried different nicks and different computers with different IPs. > I entered irc.debian.org with Empathy in ubuntu with no problems. > I asked in #debian irc.debian.org but nothing. > > Maybe some operator blocked mibbit? who should I contact? > Please CC me I am not on the list. > Thank you, bye. > It would appear either oftc or a #debian channel operator placed a blanket ban on *@.mibbit.com (not a smart way to place bans), it will either auto-expire or be manually removed, depending on how it was applied and by who. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > heh, i'd think you'd go with nfs because it's drop dead simple to setup. > seriously, google something like 'linux exports example' and just look at > it. you should have it setup in no more than 10 minutes. now, if you have > 100 servers hitting it and you start noticing interesting issues with file > locking, dates, and the likes, you might have to read up. but, seriously, > there's not much that is as simple to setup on unix as straight nfs. > > ch...@ziggy.xaerolimit.net [~]# cat /etc/exports /usr/home -alldirs -maproot=root /mnt/music -alldirs -maproot=root ch...@ziggy.xaerolimit.net [~]# there is your example ... that list is exported on my FreeBSD7.3 box and I can freely mount them in Mr. Gates favorite OS, Gentoo Linux and Debian 6. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, > > I want to set up a network filesystem to share files between several > linux systems (Debian & OpenWrt). Judging from what I see on the list > and elsewhere, NFS stills seems to be the standard, but I am aware that > newer options are available, e.g. Coda and OpenAFS. Since I don't need > any legacy or non-linux support, should I try one of those, or just > stick with NFS? > > I've seen this IBM paper: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-network-filesystems/ > > this thread: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg91079.html > > and this: > > http://coda.wikidev.net/Small_file_performance > > but I am utterly new to network filesystems, and there isn't all that > much to go on in the above. Recommendations? > I've not used Coda or OpenAFS yet as the last time I browsed the Linux kernel, they were still marked as extremely experimental still. NFS is good when going Linix <-> Linux (yes I know OpenWRT is Linux (so is ddwrt) but why not use Samba? I have a LinkSYS WRT54G (v3.1 *I think*) and I use a Samba Share that DD-WRT mounts for me at boot to provide extra storage on my router. For my needs, it's fast enough, in all honesty, I don't notice any performance impacts from doing this other then the router takes ~1-3s longer to boot, but at 12mo intervals, that is perfectly acceptable in my mind. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: sources.list
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Freeman wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:59:11PM -0700, evenso wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:25:43PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > While I am not new to Linux/*BSD, I am new to the Debian way of things. > What > > > is the proper way of modifying /etc/apt/sources.list. As it stands, I > am > > > running with the basic sources.list and am curious as to what gets > added > > > where to sources.list? > > > > > > > P.S. If you're looking for fun and danger with your sources.list: > > https://sites.google.com/site/mydebiansourceslist/ > > Thank you, this is actually what I was looking for (in a way). It gave me an idea of what I can/cannot do with sources.list. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
sources.list
While I am not new to Linux/*BSD, I am new to the Debian way of things. What is the proper way of modifying /etc/apt/sources.list. As it stands, I am running with the basic sources.list and am curious as to what gets added where to sources.list? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Charlie wrote: My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems > with apic, which I have not been able to fix. Has anyone else > encountered this? > > I have an HP Pavillian dv2845se w/ Squeeze on it, seems to run fine for me. I did have some problems with the secure format of my encrypted home and the laptop overheating, but that was fixed w/ a $50 laptop cooler. My biggest problem isn't APIC but wireless in that laptop still being lame, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm nearing 31, but I mostly still act 25. :P My first exposure to > UNIX-like > systems wasn't until my early teens, but I didn't really get to dive in > until > I was 18. > > It still took me quite a while to move to Linux. My first adventure into > Slackware was fun, but I eventually broke things beyond what I could fix > and > re-installed NT Workstation. We all experiment in college don't we... > > Toward the end of 2004, I was emboldened by finding a group of friends that > had more Linux experience and did a Gentoo install (stage1!) on my already > aging PII-450. I never looked back though. I've not licensed MS Windows > since then, even for my laptop. I got a little disenchanted with Gentoo at > some point; I decided I was spending too much time administrating my system > and not enough time using it. (Possibly not Gentoo's fault, but it felt > like > a lot of that time was fighting with emerge / paludis.) I started Debian > with > Etch. > > My laptop has had a number of installs on it. I remember an adventure into > Fedora before it had a two-digit version. I ran openSUSE to some joy for a > little over a year. Ubuntu is what it shipped with. I still keep coming > back > to Debian, partially for consistency. What advantages the others have just > never made up for the lack of familiarity. > > Ubuntu is definitely a close second; anything without the interactive > resolver > from aptitude is a lesser OS. However, I prefer the "It's done when it's > done" attitude around Debian releases, rather than the time-based releases > of > Ubuntu. I've familiarized myself enough with APT to be able to get new > software if stable doesn't meant my needs, but that's not often required > except for -dev packages for my own projects. > > ...and evidently I like talking about myself. :( > > Jebus! This sounds like my life. Played with Slackware since ver4 or so... screwed with many versions of Fedora but always stood clear of Debain, even Ubuntu till now my laptop is running Debian 6 and honestly, I rather like it and my friends will tell you I am a staunch hater of Binary Distro's for the last 5 years now, all I've run is FreeBSD in mixed server/desktop environments ... currently I have a Gentoo box as my primary file/web/dns server, a FreeBSD7.2 box that serves up my music and some other minor stuff and Deb6 on my laptop. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: AFAIK this is the 64bit version. I had no issues with it, but I'm not a > heavy flash user. > > ia32 =! ia64 nor is it amd64 ... it is Intel Architecture, 32-bit. So where did you get 64bit from that? or are you implying that the 32bit version of flash ran in a 64bit environment? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > http://distrowatch.com/ is probably what you want. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Debian 6.0
> > 128 MB seems low for a GUI environment, but I'm fairly certain it is > possible with Squeeze. > > Just for info, I recently did a minimal Wheezy install (no GUI) on a > machine with 32 MB RAM and 2 GB disk (337 MB of 1.8 GB used for / with the > remainder used as swap). It was a bit tricky (I had to enable a swap device > near the start of the install) and slow, but it worked. > > I reckon I could get a basic GUI running on it too. > It is very possible, with a lightweight WM, to get X up and running, any of the box WM's (fluxbox/openbox/blackbox), TWM or it's ilk will suite your needs ... I run a lightwight X server on my Firewall box to manage some GUI apps (static webpages that I need to see quickly and easily w/o waiting for a new browser tab to open and load) -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Debian 6.0
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Marius Pehk wrote: > What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDś witout > grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset 128MB > memori, ATi 2000 pro video card LG Flatron LCD monitor Weird, because I have a GUI environment already and I only used the minimal install CD I think you missed something during the install... -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [I didn't mention many the kFreeBSD file systems, but that's just because > I'm > not familiar with running on kFreeBSD.] Debian/kFreeBSD uses UFS2 (Universal File System version 2) which also fully supports posix syntax for symlinks. C- -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
Console resolution
I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb (produces an 'Error -22'). I added it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it's still being loaded. Nouveau is also only using the top-left quarter of my laptop's display and it's rather annoying. Once I can get rid of Nouveau I can then work on getting my nvidia driver loaded and I can use X ... as it stans nouveau is also not working correctly with X ... I get a very corrupt display but otherwise functional, just very hard to see. P.S. I tried hitting freenode/#debian but they were utterly useless in trying to actually help, people there were actually rather rude to me, I was told more then once to search google (which btw offered no real solutions). -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktingr6auzaxor_g_nay+gyozagkbtnjkr7krq...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Spam Rules, per argument (Re: Any package for surveys?)
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, elbbit wrote: > I don't "work" like you do. I live in a world without money, without > rules and restrictions, without deadlines and targets. I don't labour > anything - I leisure everything. > So Simon, you must be the poor man I pass on the street every day and give Quarters to for coffee? Here is a label for you to chew on YOU ARE A SPAMMER! *THIS* list is for FreeBSD-related questions not for you to shove your inflammatory words down our throats. You've made your point, now please go away. No one *ON THIS LIST* wants to read your words, we no longer care about your opinion or what it means because you clearly don't care about our opinion for you to change the subject and get on a topic for this list. Speaking of topics ... just because a mailing list is open for you to send mail to DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN SPAM IT WITH NONSENSE! freebsd-questions has a purpose and it would be wise for you to adhere to it, there are also rules of etiquette which you should also adhere to. Each piece of mail you have sent has been reported to your ISP/Carrier. Each piece of mail you continue to send will lodge you yet another complaint. I will continue to do this till I piss your ISP/Carrier off SO bad, they are left with two choices nullroute me or deal with you since I have many thousands of domains at my disposal, I think, from a business perspective, they will choose to cut you off, cold-turkey then deal w/ the technical resources required to continue to block me, also if enough other people from both the freebsd and debian lists complain, your ISP/Carrier may even choose to seek legal action from you. You *are* in violation of your agreement, a legally binding contract in your country of origin and the ISP/Carrier. Simon, do not reply, we no longer wish to here your dribble and we so desperately wish for you to crawl back into the hole whence you came.
