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On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:38:31AM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: > > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have access to > Debianized packages of this non-free software? These packages would simply > have to be managed outside of the

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

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Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

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> > A typical newbie won't start with Debian An important factor is the question of which package management system is the best. In my experience, Debian's is the best when used with dselect/apt, etc. All the deps are sorted out and I think this could be considered a real boon for a newbie. Of c

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Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

Nathan Norman writes: > Who makes a non-free CD now? That's the whole point of non-free; the > bits in there have license or patent issues that prevent distribution via > commercial media like CDs. That is only one of the reasons for putting stuff in non-free. Others are that modifications are f

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:08:59PM -0400, eric a . Farris wrote: > i think that'll be the kicker. those of use with (slow|no) connection > at home will pay a price, either through long download times, or having > to find/burn our own non-free CD. i would hope that, if non-free (and i > assume contr

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

Is there a chance that Storm or Corel or both would take over non-free? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

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Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

I wish I could get more information before throwing in my two cents, but here goes: I tend to agree with most of the comments here. I like working with Debian and think that the package managmenent tool is the best of the distributions that I've worked with. I also like the fact that as things now

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Which "baud"?

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Re: GR to remove non-free... Resent-Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:02:11 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:30:38 -0300 From: Rogerio Brito To: RE: GR to remove non-free...

I have just recently stumbled onto this information and am NOT a Newbie. I been using Debian for many years. I am certain that many of you will share you opinions here. I only hope that those of you who are developers and package maintainers view these varied but "concerned" opinions an take heed o

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

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Message from Cc debian-user@lists.debian.org at 07/06/00 02:20:12PM: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You do need to install nessusd on the machine you are going to scan, right? > > Really? I don't think that is the case. I thought the whole point > was to be able to scan a machine fro

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:49:50PM -0400, Andrew Whitlock wrote: > I'm a newbie, I started with Debian ^_^ greetings from another once-newbie that also started with Debian (four years ago). > As a newbie to Debian and proud owner of a mere 56Kbps connection, I'd have > to say I much prefer stuff

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

> > A typical newbie won't start with Debian > >While that is probably true, I don't think that should be the basis for > Debian's mode of operation. Debian needs new users and it needs to be > designed to appeal to new users while still maintaining the qualities that > separate it from the ot

Re: What version of PPP...

>My main reason for asking is that I'm trying to get a 128K ISDN connection >to work with a Zyxel TA and the FAQ on their UK site says that the 2.3.8 >version of PPP is needed, suggesting to look for this with dmesg and the >following should be seen: "PPP: version 2.3.8 (demand dialling)" I am usi

RE: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

H - I elected debian after using slackware for four+ years, because its what Pitr runs :) http://www.userfriendly.org/ Seriously - I chose debian because it was recommended for servers. I didn't want a distribution that needs wishy-washy X-based tools to deal with packages. Does debian n

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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:40:34PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:36:26AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > Are there any O.S. that did not want to reboot when a new kernel is > > installed? > > I remember hearing that FreeBSD doesnt need thi

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

> A typical newbie won't start with Debian While that is probably true, I don't think that should be the basis for Debian's mode of operation. Debian needs new users and it needs to be designed to appeal to new users while still maintaining the qualities that separate it from the other GNU/Lin

My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

As foreword: please note that I can't figure the consequences that it can give stopping to provide bug track facilities. >then Debian will no longer provide the >storage, bandwidth, and bug tracking facilities for non-free packages, >including acroread, blender, netscape, jdk, po

Re: Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

> Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system > and use exim and fetchmail instead? Sure, just use fetchmail to grab mail from the net and put it on the local machine. Here's the strategy: Configure Exim to be an internet site using a smarthost (option #2). You'll

RE: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: > From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > While getting rid of non-free is a noble goal, i don't feel > > that Debian > > can do it now without losing support from some parts of the Free > > Software community (look at the reaction over KDE, and then t

Re: stty-question

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:36:41PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If I use stty to configure a serial port, will the settings be the > > same after a reboot? Or do I have to put the settings in some init > > file similar to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. > >

Re: Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:00:44PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system > and use exim and fetchmail instead? Background: I have a dial-up > connection and a few users (my family) with www-based free mail > accounts (gmx) who are used to

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Re: OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

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Re: OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

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RE: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

Title: RE: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian In short: Debian +easier configuration -ideology -:) -Igor Mozetic Answer: FreeBSD + ports + linux compat libs.

Re: Probs with fb in the kernel and xserver

> I have here a 2.3.99 pre9 kernel compiled with fb, am using > it for console. So far it was no problem then to use > something like xserver-mach64 (I have an AGP Mach IIc card > in here). Now all I get is a bad screen resolution, it is > all flickering like *** and if I run XF86Setup and say I do

Re: OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

> > One thing that has always surprised me on Linux is that there doesn't seem > to be any automatic mount/umount handling of floppy drives (DOS format). > > I guess I'm thinking of something similar to the pcmcia card manager that > detects insert/remove events and automatically loads and unload

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Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:58:55 +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:08:10PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > Have you tested how "xpdf" deals with them? > > But xpdf has many problems with fonts :( Sure, but that's somewhat besides the point. If xpdf does not produce e

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Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

> Intense debate is already under way. Whether you are for and against > the resolution, let your voice be heard. I find these ideological debates useless and a great waste of resources. It would be much more productive to do some real work like releasing potato, including security fixes for bind

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: >In the Debian developer's mailing list. Feel free to join it and add > your $.02 in if you'd like (like most things in Debian, it's open to all). ... although in the past there had been talk of closing it to posts from non-developers. later (unless

Re: Gnome-Language...

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Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote: > Where can we get more information on this subject? > Where is this being debated, if at all? debian-{devel,project,vote} I follow -vote; there has been a formal call for votes (CFV), a question regarding the wording of the CFV, and a formal objection to

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Re: GR to remove the support for non-free packages

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:44:00PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > What about the packages which are in non-free only because of the > country-specific (usually US) patent restrictions? > They can be used/distributed freely in almost the whole world except > of single countries, an

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Re: Runlevels 2-5 ???, xdm-gdm conflicts.

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Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

I followed the instructions at for my potato installation and it worked great: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/958714217/ >>> "J. Glyn Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08/00 10:49AM >>> New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. Having had quite a scoot around, I am having tro

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

> Where can we get more information on this subject? > Where is this being debated, if at all? In the Debian developer's mailing list. Feel free to join it and add your $.02 in if you'd like (like most things in Debian, it's open to all). -- Regards, | Does my signature block look out-of-al

Re: how to make *deb package from source ?

> I am interested how to make debian package from source - You've got two options: read the new maintainer's how-tos (they're packaged as Debian packages) or do a "man apt-get"; apt-get has the ability to grab source packages automagically for you (it'll require editing /etc/apt/sources.list).

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Is there a way to somehow synchronize NIS passwords with NT server? Any good solutions? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: GR to remove the support for non-free packages

Hi All, What about the packages which are in non-free only because of the country-specific (usually US) patent restrictions? They can be used/distributed freely in almost the whole world except of single countries, and do not contradict the DFSG. This category includes such important things like

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

I don't think this is a good thing. Debian is a great distribution, and I do agree, the project shouldn't be wasting time with bug trackking (except where its the deb that got a problem). But to do this on a philosophical point is only going to cause problems for the user base and make it less at

Re: Sockets in C++

> There are some Sockets package for C++ development? have a look at APE (A portable Environment). The deb packages in potato are libape1 and libape1-dev. -- saisanthosh

Re: procmail/formail to change subject?

> Is it possible to put something like "[user]", and "[security]" in front > of the appropriate messages? try this procmail recipe: :0 * ^X-Loop:.*debian { :0 chfw SUBJECT=| formail -xSubject: :0 hfw * ^X-Loop:.*debian-user | /usr/bin/formail -i "Subject: [user] $SUBJECT" :0

Re: text-to-speech

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:59:24PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. > > > > thanks for any help > > > > I can't tell you how to download the tts, but I can reco

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:44:56AM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > I agree with this sentiment. Debian is by far my preferred Linux > distribution, but the "DFSG free or nothing" attitude is a little hard-core > for me. I don't see any problem with segregating non-DFSG-free stuff from > the fully DFSG

OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

One thing that has always surprised me on Linux is that there doesn't seem to be any automatic mount/umount handling of floppy drives (DOS format). I guess I'm thinking of something similar to the pcmcia card manager that detects insert/remove events and automatically loads and unloads drivers.

Re: Sockets in C++

On 2000-06-08 08:19:56, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hi: > > There are some Sockets package for C++ development? > I didn't found anything in Slink. ace might be of interest to you, don't know if it was included in slink. /Allan -- Allan Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

Where can we get more information on this subject? Where is this being debated, if at all? --- Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a heads-up guys, > > There is a General Resolution proposed by developer > John Goerzen that > is under discussion on both debian-devel and > debian-proje

File system corruption problems

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Re: Kernel

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PHP4 vs PHP3

What is the difference between PHP3 and PHP4. I want to install them with Mysql .deb's Thanks Jack Morgan

Re: Runlevels 2-5 ???, xdm-gdm conflicts.

On 08/06/00 at 14:02 Mark spake the following magic words: ++>Hello All. ++> ++>Sorry to overload this message but I have a few doubts with my (shiny) new ++>installed Debian (potato). ++> ++>1. Runlevels. ? ++>Everywhere I read about runlevels in Debian it says the same... ++> ++>runle

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Hi I am interested how to make debian package from source - eventualy where is possible get newest Exim package in deb package format ?   Thanks Petr

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Re: gv

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:14:10AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf > to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. ps2pdf. It should be in the gs package, I think. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer S

Re: Gnome-Language...

Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/06/2000 (15:14) : > But the reason, why I contribute to this threat is another one. I > encountered a similar problem, when I installed gdm (or xdm or wdm). The > point is, that obviously, your .bashrc doesn't get read, if you use some > display manager

Re: Gnome-Language...

Hello everybody, On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/06/2000 (12:12) : > > > > due to some misconfiguration mine my whole GNOME now > > appears in complete English language - the menus as well as each > > dialogue box and so on... Unt

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Runlevels 2-5 ???, xdm-gdm conflicts.

Hello All. Sorry to overload this message but I have a few doubts with my (shiny) new installed Debian (potato). 1. Runlevels. ? Everywhere I read about runlevels in Debian it says the same... runlevels 2 through 5 are various multiuser runlevels. But... which are which ?. 2.

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

> the Social Contract so that Debian will stop distributing non-free > packages. If the GR is passed, then Debian will no longer provide the > storage, bandwidth, and bug tracking facilities for non-free packages, > including acroread, blender, netscape, jdk, povray, trn, and xanim. One huge a

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