Just saw this as I suppose many already have
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-05-001-04-NW-LF-KN
Since Woody is probably still many months away is
there a chance that it will include the 2.4 Kernel?
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Debian
I have some .rm (real audio) files that I'd like to
convert to mp3's, and perhaps to .wav's as well as
mp3's I'd like to convert to .wav's (so as to make
plain old audio cd's to play in the car). Since the
real audio files are closed source and there probably
isn't an open source player available
Just read on Linuxtoday.com that trolltech will
license QT under the GPL. Guess the 'river was
lowered' instead of 'raising the bridge' (old Jerry
Lewis movie title) so KDE can now go in main for
Woody, right?
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Debian Gnu
Sometime ago someone here mentioned the existance of a bootable cd rom
image that contained only the contents of the boot floppies to allow
install over the network on a computer with NO os installed. Anyone
know the URL where I can find this image for Potato?
Thanks!
Ken
Think I may have a bug report for Mozilla. Twice I
tried to use it to download a rather large file (iso
cd rom image) and after about 50-100 megs or so my
computer went into a swap fit with constat disk
thrashing. I was running mozilla under gnome desktop
with sawmill as the window manager. I
I tried to install Potato over my dialup line. I
downloaded the base2.2.tgz image to an unused
partition, and built the root, driver, and rescue
disks from the disk files. I installed the base
system and then tried to run pppconfig to be able to
get to my isp via modem. I gave pppconfig the
I am using the original slink, with some packages
updated.
I have found the problem, and it may deserve a bug
fix. The problem was actually of my doing. Worldnet
uses passwords with 'funny' characters so you have to
enter them 'quoted'. The pppconfig program in slink
instructed you to do this,
I am going to attempt to install Potato over a
28.8/56k modem. I have downloaded and 'burned' all 15
floppies needed for the basic system, and will install
that first. Then I will set up PPP, and fire up
dselect (apt method). I have already done this at
work (but on a T1-lan-proxy setup).
I
Once again I am reading about the infamous debian
release cycle. I agree that having a stable distro is
important, but so is having up to date support for
critical items. For most of the packages in Debian,
not having the latest version is not a big deal as
these packages are so mature that
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Mark
Mealman wrote:
I really don't like unstable either, but I've
pretty much abandoned
the stable tree as too behind the times back when
slink was nearing
freeze.
Here's a serious question for you: which parts are
too old on slink
to perform the
Has the process for admiting new debian developers
gone on line yet?
There is a ham radio program that I would like to see
as a debian package. As I am not currently a
developer, pehaps someone else might like to look into
packaging this. Otherwise, I will do it, if I can run
your ganlet and
-0800, Kenneth
Scharf wrote:
The program is QSSTV (the ONLY slow scan TV
program
that I know of that works on Linux.) As the name
implies, it is based on QT. It now (version 3.0m)
works with both qt1.44 and 2.0.2. It is also
GPL'ed.
Hope it can go in main, or at least contrib
To everyone that replied to my previous email.
It appears that QSSTV is licensed under the QT public
license. It is not clear if this is the older or
newer version of the QT license. However, there would
be no GPL infection here! I have emailed the author
to get more details. The license info
I'd like to propose that we make a committment to
getting an update to
potato out within a month of the release of the 2.4
kernel or the
release
of potato, whichever comes last. (I did a similar
thing for slink in a
3
week time-frame, and so I think this is a reasonable
time-frame.)
This update
] wrote:
Delete your preferences of M13, restart mozilla.
You'll get the create
profile wizard, and then mozilla works.
Yes, it's still alpha software, why? ;-)
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run
this
morning grabbed a new
I just read on LinuxToday that XFree86 4.0 has been
released. It is still considered 'unstable' so I
guess it will in 'Woody'.
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Do You
My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this
morning grabbed a new version of mozilla. It no
longer works, it dies with a segmentation fault.
Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites
: Begin
Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin
Profile Manager : Command Line
, 2000 at 05:07:29AM -0800, Kenneth
Scharf was heard to say:
I've been following this list (on and off) as I
have
been using potato and uploading updated pacakges
daily. I didn't even know about aptitude until I
read
about it here, so I went and got it. Except for
the
lack of a man page
.
--- Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ech, I'm a bit behind on my -devel reading. I hope
this question hasn't
been answered down in another thread. :)
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 06:49:15AM -0700, Kenneth
Scharf wrote:
I understood wine as being a library that
intercepted
win32
I went to look for the sources to X11 amp on
ftp.debian.org and they are missing. I remember
downloading the source packages a few months ago, but
now a package search on debian.org shows them missing.
What happened?
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--- Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth
Scharf wrote:
I hope some shovelware cd makers will burn their
beta
onto cdr and sell it for those of us without T1
lines.
I wonder if Corel will allow this... and I wonder
why I should
I got a chance to see a demo of Corel's linux at the
Miami Comdex yesterday. They have done a very good
job of putting this together and from the looks of
this Bill has good reason to fear loosing the desktop!
They didn't demo their installer, but were bragging
that it would install Linux in
--- Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth
Scharf was heard to say:
They said that the beta of their linux distro will
be
available for public download by the end of
October.
Hm. Do you have any information about the
following
I see from the photo of the debian-map that there is a push pin in
south florida. Who is the debian developer in my neck of the woods?
(someone's gonna have to verify a pgp signature for me one of these days).
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http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu Linux,
PLEASEtalk to the guys at Coral! They have been putting out some
ideas in this area.
PS: I'm not (yet) a developer, I'd like to learn more about the 'nuts
and bolts' of the distribution and programming specifics for linux
(I've been playing around with gtk++ and VDK for a while now) before I
GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would
fix it,
but it doesn't. The upstream author, with whom I generally had very
good
(albeit sporadic) contact is MIA. AFAICT the other dists don't
distribute
acct.
The package needs a kernel hacker type who can debug and
acct is user login/use accounting, NOT money matters.
oops. Yeah that was Xacct or something like that. Oh well never mind.
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http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .
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Do
*- On 28 Jan, Chris Waters wrote about Call for mascot! :-)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
I like this. It would be great for CD covers were each tentacle could
have text overlayed for each architecture: i386, arm, hurd, sparc,
alpha, m68k, powerpc. Well that is seven but there may be more
While at it, why not add monitor detection, like windows can do?
Date:
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:23:29 -0500
From:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator
thread...
==
It's alpha software, but it's free and doesn't break your system. Let's
ship it.
If we are going to remove all packages which are buggy, we have to
ship an empty CD ROM. Bug free software doesn't seem to exist per
definition
If main is split into two cd's then no packages in main1 should depend
on any in main2. (packages in main2 could depend on main1, then you
would be told to go back and install them from main1?)
_
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com
The intel version of debian packages are in some directory path
downstream from ../../i386/.. and the package names also carry i386.
While this is technically correct, it can be missleading to some that
the package only runs on an 80386 cpu. The current name for the cpu
family from intel (and
If the day ever comes that some hardware maker decides to write his
own driver for Linux (say a maker of a win-modem decided to write a
linux driver and throw the disk in the box) but did NOT license under
the GPL, choosing to keep it propritory would that be so bad?
As long as such software came
---Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although I recognise how important
good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't consider
binary-only
support good support at all. I'd hate to be stuck in Company X's
position.
I'm sure you'd feel the same way if it was your business on the
Whenever you start a program running under X11, the windows created
usually have the little 'X' logo in the upper left hand corner. If
you are running RedHat linux however, the upper left hand corner of
the windows contains the RedHat logo (head with a red hat). Why can't
it (under Debian) have
I installed a second CD rom drive in my computer. Some people have CD
'changers' that can have 3 - 5 disks in the stack. (Some of these
take up several drive letters in windows/dos...do they appear as
separate lun's in scsi or separate partitions under linux)
There should be support for
---Matthew Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about naming it after species of penguin?
That should keep us going for a little while...
I like my new debian emperor system ;)
`Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a
Fairy Penguin)
I like
Don't forget, when Arthur and Ford woke up on the Heart Of Gold after
being shoved out of the vogon (Hey that's another good name!) ship
Arthur begain to lose limbs and Ford was turning into a ... PENGUIN!
... (until the probabibility level dropped down to 1:1).
---Matthew Parry [EMAIL
The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!!
BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't
forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong).
-
there is always:
Debian Zaphod, Debian Arthur, Debian Prefect, Debian
Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity.
BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium
this summer.)
--
How about naming it after species of penguin?
That should keep us going for a little
If 'Woody' was offensive, do you think that Disney would have used the
name in their movie? Wasn't toy story rated G? Come on, who is more
sensitive to this than the mouse factory?
--
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen
new installations are done by windows users, not by unix system admins.
at least 90% ...
while ed, vi and emacs might be nice for old unix hackers,
joe is the right choice for old dos hackers.
i'm useing vim everyday, and i will rather use sed than ae or that mini vi.
joe would be acceptable,
I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the
official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm
directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to
be listed in the packages file for hamm, slink, or even bo! What
I downloaded the sources for the 2.0.34 kernel and did a quick look through
the files. The fat-32 patches do not seem to be in here. If 2.0.34 is to
be released as a debian package, then I hope all of the patches that are in
the 2.0.33 package are added.
Also has anyone packaged the Real Time
Thanks to everyone that pointed out that the fat32 patches ARE in 2.0.34.
I assumed that fat32 remained a configure option, but it appears that it is
now a standard feature (of fat). At least that's why I could not find any
reference to fat32 in the configure scripts.
It must be a mess for the
I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the
way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half a class action
suit
late).
The above comment reminds me.
Has anyone besides me bought some memory from comp-usa within the last 6
months and is STILL waiting
I will save the names and addresses of all who reply for possible
preparation of a legal response (maybe Janet Reno's office).
Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/04/98 02:24:50 PM
To: Kenneth Scharf/PD/CoulterUS, debian-user@lists.debian.org,
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
cc
Awhile ago I read here of a package someone made called (I think) xteddy,
which was replacement login screen for X. I have just wadded through
ftp.debian and could not find it. As I just got the courage to enable xpm
on my system (WOW what a pretty login screen with the debian 'logo' and the
I downloaded the kernel-source_2.0.33-7.deb package and installed it on my
1.3.1r6 system. (I needed the fat32 patch). I now understand why I had
trouble patching kernel sources from .deb packages, because they have
already been patched, so patch tried to REMOVE the patch instead of
INSTALLING
Does the kernel source package in hamm (kernel-source-2.0.33 2.0.33-7.deb)
include the patch for
fat32? I am getting patch failures (.rej's) trying to apply this patch to
earlier sources from bo, so I used a generic
2.0.33 kernel source from sunsite archive. I will upgrade to hamm when it
is
I'm collecting names of those who have either emailled me or mentioned
interest in seeing Debian a little easier on the novice user (but without
getting annoying to the experienced user!) and will be in the next day or
two trying to see if maybe we can get some projects organized to make
Debian
A few questions from a possible future contributor (so please turn down the
flame throwers as I mean well)
I've seen the term mentioned here many times, I've looked in the docs but
can't find the meaning (so it must be slang). What is a tarball?
On the thread of .deb vs .rpm From Maximum RPM
Bruce, I just read your letter to the debian devel list and your name
sounded familiar. You were mentioned in a Linux Ham-HowTo as starting a
linux
distribution for amateur radio. The mentioned web page however does not
exist (dns entry not found anyway). I assume that your current letter is a
If someone has the desire to install an operating system on a computer
that is created,
supported, and distributed by volunteers they should expect to have to do
some amount of
reading to configure the system to their liking. When someone does the
install and
then proceeds to cry because the
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