There's not really a solution to that, ever, for an OS distributed on the
Internet. MS distributes boot floppies with their non-upgrade OS products
for the same reason.
Well, there is one solution.. just convince the BIOS manufacturers to include
PPP code in the BIOS which can dialup and
On Aug 21, Paul Wade wrote
Does Microsoft contribute to my personal autonomy? If so, I prefer
anarchy. Linux is revolutionary in nature. What if Linus had decided
instead to develop something that required Windows or SCO Unix? I notice
that the people behind Debian like to avoid
On Aug 21, Paul Wade wrote
Long live anarchy! Long live the Revolution and the Counter-Revolution!
Long live the Dedicated Diehard Debianist!
I will be running a special on 1.3.whatever_it_really_is binary CD's
starting this weekend and continuing for at least one month. Longer if
that's
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:34:41 +0200 (MET DST), E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote:
This is why there have ben how many changes to 1.3.1, and it's still called
1.3.1?
That is an error you can criticize. It was not done on purpose, and
therefore you cannot claim it is a severe flaw in the policy.
Bruce writes:
The FTP update is easy.
I just took a look at the ftp site. Can't say I agree with you (though it
is better).
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On Aug 21, Paul Wade wrote
Long live anarchy! Long live the Revolution and the Counter-Revolution!
Long live the Dedicated Diehard Debianist!
I will be running a special on 1.3.whatever_it_really_is binary CD's
starting this weekend and continuing for at least one month. Longer if
that's
Bruce writes:
The FTP update is easy.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just took a look at the ftp site. Can't say I agree with you (though it
is better).
Have you tried dselect's FTP method yet? It does that update automaticaly.
That's why I said it's easy.
Bruce
--
Can you get your
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:14:05 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Mike Schmitz wrote:
myself in alignment with David Cinege and Paul Wade. I do not think that
_any_ decision should be made on business, marketing, or political reasons,
Whatever the cost, ONLY quality of the
Dave Cinege:
A donation to 'debian' meant supporting the deveopers directly in some way,
offering bandwidth, and contributing to the project. There were no direct
bills to pay.
The project could never fold unless the developers decided to just walk away.
Then Debian suddenly had to get
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:13:22 +0200 (MET DST), E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote:
Dave Cinege:
A donation to 'debian' meant supporting the deveopers directly in some way,
offering bandwidth, and contributing to the project. There were no direct
bills to
pay.
The project could never fold unless the
Dave Cinege:
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:13:22 +0200 (MET DST), E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote:
Dave Cinege:
A donation to 'debian' meant supporting the deveopers directly in some
way,
offering bandwidth, and contributing to the project. There were no direct
bills to
pay.
The project
Dave Cinege:
You just don't get it. Debian is not supposed to be a company!!!
Debian is supposed to be the efforts of it's developers! When
you say Debian Inc should do xx, you're not saying the devs
should do it but the few (one?) guys directly in charge of Debian
Inc.
This is the
On Aug 21, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Mike Schmitz wrote:
myself in alignment with David Cinege and Paul Wade. I do not think that
_any_ decision should be made on business, marketing, or political reasons,
Whatever the cost, ONLY quality of the code and distribution
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:14:05 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Mike Schmitz wrote:
Oh, horsehockey. Bandwidth does not grow on trees. Neither do systems.
It is impossible to plant a seed and grow a system, it takes money. If
you can show that you are a non-profit
Hi,
Dave == Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dave Bull. It puts other at odds with the 'officials' in the
Dave project. There is no reason someone couldn't have come up with
Dave this 'stable' release CD on their own. There is no reseason
Dave Bruce could not have done it, and offered it in
Bruce writes:
Have you tried dselect's FTP method yet? It does that update
automaticaly. That's why I said it's easy.
From the dslect help screen:
ftp - Install using ftp.
Installation using ftp, you must know a ftp site and the correct
directory for a debian distribution.
But what is
Long live anarchy! Long live the Revolution and the Counter-Revolution!
Long live the Dedicated Diehard Debianist!
I will be running a special on 1.3.whatever_it_really_is binary CD's
starting this weekend and continuing for at least one month. Longer if
that's what it takes to clean this up. I
From: Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will be running a special on 1.3.whatever_it_really_is binary CD's
starting this weekend and continuing for at least one month. Longer if
that's what it takes to clean this up. I will make it cheaper to get a
1.3.really_current binary CD than the 1.3.1
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
Now for your anarchist side, when governments become overbearing they
tend to nationalize -- meaning they take property away from
corporations (and other private organizations or individuals) for the
supposed general welfare. So, it is not
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
Does Microsoft contribute to my personal autonomy? If so, I prefer
anarchy.
Perhaps Microsoft does. Perhaps it doesn't. But, I'm almost certain
Greenbush Technologies Corporation does. ;-)
^^^
There is nothing
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