In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
Debian comes up in a much rawer form after install - for instance,
no prompt beyond the basic # for root and $ for the user (RedHat
gives you the now famous username
It seems to me we've got a problem with the way dependencies and the
installation are handled. It seems that if package 1 is dependent on
packages 2,3 and 4, and all were selected for installation, then
dselect doesn't always install 2,3 and 4 before 1. More usually it
installs 2, then tries 1
It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on
pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I
mean is that after installation of RedHat you have a more or less
pre-tailored system setup. You can start tweaking your heart out but the
basics are already
First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see
no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a
Finnish college student (in fact, he isn't one anymore) and I believe
he should have been given more credit, at least his name should have
appeared in the press
Jonas Bofjall wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see
no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a
Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team...
// Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201
public I deem it only fair that they think of Debian as an
implementation of the GNU project and the Linux Kernel, and not as some
new OS. I would prefer Debian stood on its own merit.
Yoav
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
Jonas Bofjall wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997
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