It spreads by casual contact...

2000-08-11 Thread Seth Cohn
At our local Linux user group (http://www.euglug.org) , I've been recommending our more 'power user' members switch to Debian, extolling the joy and virtue of apt, dpkg, etc. For newbie users, Mandrake and it's ilk still provide a simple quick start to Linux, but the more experienced hands should

Oops: _not_ a debian derived system - NIC (www.thinknic.com)

2000-08-05 Thread Seth Cohn
> I bought one weeks ago, got it the other day, and hacked up a bash > shell on it the first night, and lo and behold, the OS is based on > Debian. So it says in the kernel and boot among other places (grin). > Joey, another derived system to add to the Potato press release... Correction. It is

Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme

2000-08-04 Thread Seth Cohn
At 11:09 PM 08/04/2000 +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote: >And as a side note, I've heard that people were able to do stuff for >the GNU project without depositing urine samples, but then again the >GNU project is probably not as respectable as Debian. Urine, blood, sweat or tears... almost any bodily f

Another debian derived system - NIC (www.thinknic.com)

2000-08-04 Thread Seth Cohn
Larry Ellison's new company doing a 'thin client', the NIC (http://www.thinknic.com) has shipped the unit finally. I bought one weeks ago, got it the other day, and hacked up a bash shell on it the first night, and lo and behold, the OS is based on Debian. So it says in the kernel and boot among