Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Eric E Moore
kill required to install debian, this is a bad thing because? I'm not for simplemindedly glossing over details the installer actually should know and understand, but that's somewhat orthogonal to a graphical installer. -- Eric E. Moore pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-22 Thread Eric E Moore
al syntax > to execute statements sequentially. Not really. top level forms in a scheme program are executed sequentially, and there's a number of forms that execute their statements sequentially. I'm not up on haskell, or other "pure" functional languages though :) -- Eric E. Moore msg25489/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> - Gnus doesn't support storing mail (on local computer as Brian> opposed to IMAP) in any shared location. Instead, it will pull Brian> all mail out of the Maildir or mbox file, and insert it into Brian> its own private spool. This makes

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Charles" == Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> On 21 Tammuz 5761, Kurt Lieber wrote: >> So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can >> point me to an MUA that meets them. If so, I'll gladly switch over >> to Linux full-time and forswear Microsoft forev

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-12 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You said: Jeremy> I use Outlook because I find it to be better than any piece of Jeremy> shit MUA that I can run on Linux. I happen to find Linux Jeremy> rather lacking when it comes to the desktop arena and when I Jeremy> actually have

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Apt-get is generally much cooler when run as a dselect method. Joost> It will save you many pains if you take 30 minutes to learn the Joost> principles behind dselect and its slightly weird key Joost> assignments (it's still much easi

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-06 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> It's not that symmetric, I'm afraid. Dave> Worse, though, is the case of a binary-only package which makes Dave> assumptions about running services based on runlevel. When it Dave> breaks because of customized runlevels, the admi

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-04 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> You may have 4 identical runlevels and I may have 4 identical Dave> runlevels, but debian's policy leaves it up to the admin to Dave> decide what each runlevel means. If LSB makes proclamations on Dave> the meaning of various runlev