I'm sorry that Qt has that messed-up license. It does severely restrict
its usefulness.
A good substitute for "Qt" can be found in the "vx" package in
"unstable". It's another C++ GUI package.
Thanks
Bruce
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I have Win NT installed on one drive and Linux on another, with the Win NT
drive being the default boot drive. I am currently using loadlin to boot
linux, but I am wondering if there is a way to get the Win NT OS loader to
load Linux.
Does anyone know?
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I'd better put a BIG note about this in the 1.2 installation document.
Try "modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x320"
Note that it's cdu31a_port, not just cdu31a, when the driver is loaded
from a module, as it is in the Debian kernel.
This also works with the module installation tool in the installatio
Hi,
I install JDK in my box(linux Debian1.1). Here waht i did
step by step.
1: netscape installation
cd /usr/local
tar xvzf netsape_3.tgz
cd /usr/local/netscape
mkdir java
mkdir java/classes
cp moz_30 java/classes
For a
Hi all,
I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the
ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386),
but I don't know how to fix it. If I click on the file (using Netscape
Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen. If I
Hey
Will there be a new sendmail ready to use for Debian 1.1, in short time,
including the latest patches (8.8.3) ? So, will the easy-to-exploit-bug
that was found last week be removed?
// Remco van de Meent (nParago on IRC)
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Stephen Early wrote:
>>> Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just
>>> a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to
>>> the same policy. I wish you luck.
Herbert Xu wrote:
>>I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers
>>should
You wrote:
> Maybe, but please post your filter(s) and the /etc/printcap file,
> so that we can examine the problem.
This is my printcap:
lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/etc/filter.ps:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
I just switched to xserver-svga from AcceleratedX, and everything
wen't smoothly, except that Meta no longer works right in emacs. I
can't say things like M-q and have the right thing happen.
I thought uncommenting the /etc/X11/XF86Config line
LeftAlt Meta
would fix it, but it didn't ap
There is already a postgres95 package for debian:
Package: postgres95
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Emanuele Pucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.01-1
Depends: libc5
Conffiles:
/var/lib/postgres95/pg_hba a7e0e850f5fc752d22b703c39b6eaf66
Descript
I was wondering if there was some alternative in one of the debian
packages to xfontsel that would show all the fonts installed in the
server in a scrolling window. It's a real pain to have to go picking
through the fonts one at a time.
Thanks
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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Kevin Traas wrote:
>
> Whenever I try viewing the current routing tables by typing "route" or
> "netstat -r" at the command prompt I only get the standard header - no
> information. The command just hangs and I must Ctrl-C to get out. I
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd?
>
> I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and
> portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure
> it.
>
Go to the livingston site at http
GREENE KENNETH ADAM writes:
> I'm trying to get GCC to do dynamic linking (I'm new to Linux, was
> using DJGPP on a M$-DOG system). I can get it to do static linking,
> but not dynamic. when I do "gcc -dynamic -o test test.o" it
> generates a static linked ELF binary (according ot ldd).
Some
Martin Konold writes:
> Similar problems here with:
> ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libncurses.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent
> soname (
> libncurses.so.3.0), skipping
What in the worlkd is ncurses doing in /usr/X11R6/lib? It's supposed
to be in /lib. Please install the Debian version which is n
Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd?
I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and
portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure
it.
TIA
Ricardo
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Hi,
I'd love to handle dosemu's hdimage files without dosemu.
What must I do to use a loop device with Debian?
(Will "cd /dev; mknod loopx b 7 x" for x=0,...,7 be enough?)
Should I have to recompile the kernel?
If yes, will Debian 1.2 support loop device directl
The Ada package as shipped from NYU includes a replacement gcc binary
for the matching release; I was going to avoid the problem by shipping
it as ada-gcc instead of the redirected gcc (I didn't really expect
2.7.2.1 to come out, and 2.8 will have all the changes built in...)
The GNAT package has
> Please excuse me if I am wrong in my assumption that this is the correct
> place to ask a question such as the following...
>
> I am really in a bind here. After an agonizing week of waiting, my new
> debian CD showed up and I got to work installing. Everything went
> smoothly untill I went t
> Has anyone heard of the Transname Patch for Linux? I downloaded it
> and am testing it now, and it seems to work very well! There is a
> version against kernel 2.0.25 on my WWW site that you can have.
Yes, I've been using transname with debian for a couple of months. I have
2 diskless compute
I think the subject says it all... I'm looking for the
sources of the programs found on Debian rootdisks. Can anybody
help me?
Thanks,
Juan Cespedes
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Greg Smith wrote:
>
> I upgraded to many of the unstable packages the other day, and now most
> only works from the console. From a xterm window, I get "Terminal not
> powerful enough for SLang" This is my favorite viewer, so I would really
> like for it to work again. What's wrong?
I think is
> Also, I missed the instructions on how to get Netscape working. I'm using
> 3.01, and its crapping out whenever it hits any Java. Can someone repost?
Use the Debian package for Netscape 3.01. I beleive it's still in Incoming
at the moment.
> Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what
> if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum?
As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but
you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed
their licence we would
> why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
Rex has been frozen so only bug fixes are going there. It should be released
as stable in a couple weeks. Bo is the new unstable tree.
Brian
in cfengine all machines belong to several classes, e.g
mail_server = ( tango )
mail_client = ( samba rumba )
home_server = ( samba )
...
In a cfengine-file one can use these classes to perfom any action. But
when I want to perform the e.g. the following action
copy:
mail_server::
do som
Hello again,
thank to everybody how help me during the installation in a "bigger
network". It took me a few days to get everything to run, but now I
hope I can work on my normal job again.
Dirk
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I have just upgraded one machine to 1.1.14 and the 2.0.23 kernel, and
am having some problems with the networking. In particular, running
xdm on a remote server (using X -query host) seems to freeze, whereas
it works OK when I boot up with the previous kernel version (2.0.6).
Is this a problem th
After upgrading a number of packages from the unstable tree, including x 3.2,
suddenly xterm would no longer run. It gives the error "xterm: Error 14, errno
13: Permission denied." All my other X programs, including rxvt, work fine. Are
there files that xterm opens or writes to that rxvt does not,
Adam Heath wrote:
|I current connect to the Internet with PPPD, and all works well. I have
|compiled my kernel (2.0.24) with IP_MASQ enabled, and have verified that
|this works. Here is my question.
|
|Can it be setup, so that when someone telnets into the Linux box, instead
|of the request being
[NOTE: I am sending this again because for some strange reason
only part of this message was distributed by the debian-user list...]
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote:
>This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to
> make a recommendation as to a complete syst
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname
> > > (libtix.so.4.1), skipping
> >
> > That's a bug in whatever package provides /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1.b1.
> > File a bug report.
>
> It's been fixed in tix41-4.1b1-4, and is up
Could someone give me a complete list of the Debian packages neededto
upgradeto XFree 3.2 ?
I have compiled it and run it on my Debian machine, and it is a big win
for my S3 card, but I would like to keep dpkgs database up to date on
the state of my machine.
Hi,
I could finally install postgres95.1.0 in my box linux.
For whose that are intresseted, here how did i do
(sorry, my method appear to be barbar but it work).
Important: THERE IS NO GUARANTIE IN MY METHOD.
Here is my box package;
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Hi,
I have just installed he base debian system on a new box, but I can't get
the networking to work. I am using the smc_ultra driver, and it finds the
card alright, and repports no errors at boot time. According to the
ifconfig package counters, all transmittet
On Sat, 17 Nov 2096 16:03:16 EST "Adam Heath" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
g) wrote:
> I have set kerneld to automatically run pppd through /sbin/request-route
> whenever I need the internet. The only problem is that I still get a
> timeout(or I just need to re-request the connection) from the kernel. I
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ]
"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner":
> I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt.
It looks better than Athena widgets. :-)
(I use xaw95 myself. I haven't tried Qt or KDE, nor am I interested
in with the current copyrights.)
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:02:45 +1100 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
t.edu.au) wrote:
> why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
Rex, aka frozen, aka 1.2 is under code freeze. No new package is added there.
Bo is the new development (unstable) version.
Currently, most of the bo p
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 20:22:06 EST "Joe Feenin" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>I have been told that the Debian distribution is based on the 2.x kernel
> version. Is this true? If so if I buy a recent release of a CDROM set say
> Informagics will it include this release? I desparately need an
> Is there a version of Hypermail (the web-based mail archiver) for Debian?
No.
Having used Hypermail, I recommend mhonarc (hypermail dumped core when used
on large archives on FreeBSD), which is packaged:
Version: 1.2.3-2 Last modified: Mon Sep 23 09:19:52 1996
Architecture: i386
Maintainer:
> > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have
> > > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp
> > > >install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages.
>
> > > Here, here...I second this. I know you can confirm what to get but
> > >
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Joe Feenin wrote:
>I have been told that the Debian distribution is based on the 2.x kernel
> version. Is this true? If so if I buy a recent release of a CDROM set say
> Informagics will it include this release? I desparately need an a
Hi Neil,
> Can someone kindly point me in the right direction
> to solve a niggling problem,
> When I do a `su' command bash comes up with
> an error message,
>
> bash: setenv : command not found
>
> I have a man page for setenv which refers
> to stdlib.h, this I have in,
>
> `/usr/include/b
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
bo is the new unstable release. rex was the previous unstable release
that has gone into code freeze, and should become the next stable
release in time.
Right now:
unstable --> bo
frozen --
Martin Konold writes:
> Qt comes with source. Any gpled sw can be distributed with soure or
> binary of Qt.
No, I believe you are wrong (or at least, that the issue is _much_
more complicated than you suggest). The GPL requires:
2. [ source code distribution and modification ]
...
b) You
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Stephen Early wrote:
>> Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just
>> a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to
>> the same policy. I wish you luck.
>
>I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian d
David Frey wrote:
>
> Paul Christenson writes:
> >On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
> >
> >> Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
> >> make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders?
> >
> [...] You only have to ensure that you
> turn off any translation (put i
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
If you look at the symlinks, you'll see that unstable points to bo and
frozen points to rex. rex is the frozen 1.2 tree. Lots of packages
are still going into it as bugs get fixed, but no new pa
Please excuse me if I am wrong in my assumption that this is the correct
place to ask a question such as the following...
I am really in a bind here. After an agonizing week of waiting, my new
debian CD showed up and I got to work installing. Everything went
smoothly untill I went to install the
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> There seems to be a bad AlterNet link between master.debian.org and Pixar.
> This might mess up mailing list service until they get it working.
Actually it is worse then that UUNET seems to have severe problems at the
moment. They confirmed >70% packet d
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Carl Greco wrote:
> The uucp_1.06.1-2.deb that was included in the Debian 1.1-14
> distribution is not compatible with libc. The executables (uucico,
> etc) are looking for libc.so.4 while this distribution comes with
> libc.so.5. Is there an updated compiled uucp packages av
If you want the login screen to look pretty, just grab a copy of
XBanner from http://chaos.fullerton.edu , the XBanner home page. A
Debian package is available.
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Hi,
I have a mac computer that displays a message that says
"missing ppp drivers" when I try to access the internet with my
aol software or wizzard (local internet provider) can you help me ?
I can't afford the mac chareges for helping me. Can you tell me if there's a
internet site I can l
OK so I installed (or tried to install) Debian 1.1.4 from the CD set I
picked up at the computer show today. One problem and it's a HUGE one. It
doesn't see my CDROM. No matter what I try, no dice. Why is this? I have
a Sony CDU-33a which should use the cdu31a driver and it works as such in
al
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the only impediment is that they need a maintainer
Yes.
> , what do I need to do to enlist? (Probably check the FAQ first,
> huh? Duh!)
See the Work Needing and Prospective Packages document. I'm not sure
where it it kept, but it's p
There seems to be a bad AlterNet link between master.debian.org and Pixar.
This might mess up mailing list service until they get it working.
Bruce
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I have set kerneld to automatically run pppd through /sbin/request-route
whenever I need the internet. The only problem is that I still get a
timeout(or I just need to re-request the connection) from the kernel. I
run FTP, then PPPD dials and connects, but FTP has timed-out. I get the
same probl
Hi,
I just tested a package dbackup in experimental. It is exactly
what I want: a list of files in my computer that are not a part
of debian system. Is there another, more supported way to accomplish
the same?
Esa
-
Esa Tur
On Sat, 16 Nov 96 23:04:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I wrote a new filter and nothing come out of the printer. So I
>invoked the filter manually with the output redirected to /dev/lp1
>and all worked fine. I also tried apsfilter and magicfilter but they
>did not function. So, I think
I current connect to the Internet with PPPD, and all works well. I have
compiled my kernel (2.0.24) with IP_MASQ enabled, and have verified that
this works. Here is my question.
Can it be setup, so that when someone telnets into the Linux box, instead
of the request being handled there, it is ma
> Can someone kindly point me in the right direction
> to solve a niggling problem,
> When I do a `su' command bash comes up with
> an error message,
>
> bash: setenv : command not found
the setenv command is built into the csh shell to set environment
variables, in bash the corresponding comma
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.29 1996/11/17 23:08:48 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1.Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/de
I'm trying to get GCC to do dynamic linking (I'm new to Linux, was
using DJGPP on a M$-DOG system). I can get it to do static linking,
but not dynamic. when I do "gcc -dynamic -o test test.o" it
generates a static linked ELF binary (according ot ldd).
If this is not the appropriate place for
Hi,
I just retrieved kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb from a mirror
in Sweden and from a mirror in Finland. Both were corrupted.
I got it from subdirectory 'bo' and transfer went OK.
The places are not mirrors of each other, the problem is
likely in master.
The error is:
Unpacking kernel-source-2.0
My friend owns to computers, one running linux, the other with win95. I
setup /sbin/request-route to run pppd whenever he needs the internet from
w95, and it works ok.
Is there a way that he could run some kind of batch file or script on the
Win95 machine to comunicate to linux to hang up the con
Hamish Moffatt writes:
> with it enabled. Ideally, the GCC package will have gcc with
> this enabled, and the GNAT package will not supply a gcc at
> all. Hopefully this will happen for the next GNAT package version,
> which is awaiting GNAT 3.06 (based on gcc 2.7.2.1).
When I was maintaining gcc,
Hello,
Is there a version of Hypermail (the web-based mail archiver) for Debian?
thanks
fabrizio
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Martin Konold writes:
-> In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO.
Buzzword bingo. Just because it's written in C++ doesn't mean it's
better.
-> Qt comes with source.
My mistake. I was under the impression that Qt was
binary-only. Sorry. But the source distribution is a sham, since you
can not d
Are there any Debian users running rocat bbs software out there?
If so.. please send me email direct!
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Martin Konold wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded to the most recent release of xv from the
> > non-free section and it is giving me the dependency problem
> > that it requires libtiff3. Yet, I can't find libtiff3.
> > Am I looking in the wrong place or
Martin Konold wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
>
> > -> Have look at the kde project.
> > [ Stuff snipped ]
> >
> > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on
> > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is
> > delivere
The biggest problem since I've installed Debian 4 months ago, for
me, has been the configuration of dial-up networking. I've installed all
the appropriate packages, configured the kernel, and gone through the
HOWTOs related to PPP and networking to setup such files as /etc/networks
/etc/res
FWIW, I just tried to D/L the kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb from ftp.debian.org
using dpkg-ftp and I got the same problem. There is something wrong with this
package. It should, in my opinion, be removed from the ftp site if a
replacement can not be made available soonest.
In article <[EMAIL PROTE
> > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on
> > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is
> > delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a
> > significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will
> > keep t
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Neil Walker wrote:
> Can someone kindly point me in the right direction
> to solve a niggling problem,
> When I do a `su' command bash comes up with
> an error message,
>
> bash: setenv : command not found
That's because setenv is built into csh/tcsh. Apparently, you are
I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better?
I am currently using Quantum GP and it is very noisy. I looked
at the Web and found that IBM is cheaper then Quantum, while
seagate is the most expensive one (more than $200 over Quantum).
lawrence,
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Early) wrote on 15.11.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just
> a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to
> the same policy. I wish you luck.
Actually, this is a very good description
Lars Wirzenius writes:
-> "linh (l.) dang":
-> > What should I put in my .mailcap to make pgp handle
-> > your "application/pgp-signature" as text. I use mailcrypt so I don't
-> > want rmime invoke anything for pgp stuffs.
->
-> I don't know understand .mailcap (I've never needed it), so I hope
-
Assuming that this is the correct group to ask this type of question,
could someone help with a couple of problems I'm having with Debian
installation:
First, dselect (which generally works very well), appears to have become
broken somehow -- I can no longer change the Access method to use. If I
>bash: setenv : command not found
>
setenv is a C-shell builtin.
I guess, that you have probably set a C-shell variant as your login in
shell, but didn't wrote 'su -'.
My suggestion: Change your login shell to bash (chsh -s /bin/bash)
and try again.
David
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Paul Christenson writes:
>On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
>
>> I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office
>> from surplus parts.
>> Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
>> make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
>> pretty
I have a HP ScanJet 4C here and use it with Debian/Linux. It works great.
You have to include the "generic SCSI interface" to the kernel and install
the hpscanpbm package.
I prefer xvscan, a patched xv version that allows scanning directly into
xv. It's great! Note that you have to pay for this,
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ]
Martin Konold:
> So [Qt] is really free and can be well used for gpled sw.
Well, yes, for some definitions of the word free. Free is one
of those words that everyone likes to define for themselves. For
Debian, the relevant que
Hello all,
just to continue the Fortran saga: it looks suspiciously like
the I/O library in f2c and g77 both don't do buffered I/O any longer.
This differs from the standard behaviour on other platforms where the
WRITE statement produces buffered I/O. Could this be a side-effect of
the 5.4
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Bill Bumgarner writes:
> Now that I have an answer on the libc front (ie; 1.2 will ship with =
> 5.4.7), I'm going to reboot to Linux and produce 'official' 5.4.7 =
> compliant GCC 2.7.2.1 + GnuStep Threading Patches in short order. =20
>
> BTW: For now, I'm using the built in MIT_POSIX_THREADS.
Did your PPP server on the other end change? Perhaps it isn't handling
compressed packets correctly. Try adding -vj and -bsdcomp flags, and see
if it improves.
Bruce
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Alex Romosan wrote:
> xrdb doesn't seem to work on a 486 which i recently upgraded to
> xfree86 3.2. when i run it i get this:
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux
> -D__i386__ -D_POS IX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE
[etc]
> fr
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote:
>This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to
> make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages,
> E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their
> ScanJet to work, I probably could sell
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
lawrence,
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Oh well, scratch that one off the list of possible solutions to be
investigated... I guess I'm back at square one; pining for GnuStep.
b.bum
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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:34:49 +1100
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL
[claws out]
[box on]
>I have to vent.
>
OK,
>I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
>still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
>
# I think you forgot to include open, free, expandable, flexible, . . .
Free, yes.
Expandable--
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Marco Mariani wrote:
>
> The installation procedure is *very* important, because a new Debian user
> should instantly get the feeling he's done the Right Thing :-)
Has anyone given any thought to writing a very simple, separate
installer for debian? It could contain a very
Stephen Early wrote:
>
> Ah. The X Window System is not a user interface. It is a standard by
> which applications can drive displays and input devices. It provides
> mechanism, not policy.
Sure. But I must remind you that we are concerned with
developping Debian, not X per se. Using the above
Bill Bumgarner wrote:
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> # Have look at the kde project.
>
> I will-- and if it is as cool as you make it sound, I'll happily put
> together the debian packaging information...
The problem with kde is that they use qt, which has a very
restrictive license that makes it non-free software (in
par
Stephen Early wrote:
>
> One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it
> provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I
> don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other
> distributions have tried this, and it occasionally causes confusion
Has anyone heard of the Transname Patch for Linux? I downloaded it
and am testing it now, and it seems to work very well! There is a
version against kernel 2.0.25 on my WWW site that you can have.
Transnames promises to greatly simplify management of cluster
workstations and large networks by
Has anybody seen how Microsoft implements their DNS?
I'm a little confused because they return a connect refused and then
expect to roll over to their next host. I'm guessing this is something
that explorer knows about. Something that netscape did earlier with
their browsers. But Netscape catches
Has the font used by xterm changed in the new xfree 3.2 release?
I upgraded to 3.2 from bo the day before yesterday and have found that
the nice solid font which xterm used to use has been replaced by a thin,
spidery font which is only readable in "Huge" mode on my screen.
I have the following i
I didn't notice crack or cops listed in the Debian 1.1 package listing.
I ftp'd crack and had trouble compiling it, discovered many others did, too;
found the glitch and fixed it.
So, it brings me to an interesting question: Is there a reason why cops
and crack aren't in a package yet, other tha
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