On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:20:52PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans uttered:
I don't agree. I think stable is an innapropriate name. The prime
example for this is slink, which included GNOME 0.3.something. This was
released after GNOME 1.0 came out. Let me tell you, there was nothing
at all stable
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Subject: Re: Currency of packages
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:20:52PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans uttered:
I don't agree. I think stable is an innapropriate name. The prime
example for this is slink, which included GNOME 0.3.something. This was
released after GNOME
I'm thinking tinker reboot... If tinker fails, you really don't want to
kill your uptime...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Rob Mahurin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker reboot',
Shouldn't this be 'tinker ;
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:51:07AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
I'd like to hear how Debian old-timers work with this.
we deal with it. i run cyrus imap 1.5.x and many other old packages
from stable. they are in stable for a reason..they are stable :)
I don't agree. I think stable is an
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker reboot',
Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your
tinkering will be backgrounded and get interrupted by the reboot
process.
Rob
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:14:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin uttered:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker reboot',
Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your
tinkering will be
Hi Jenny W,
Please set your mailer to wrap long lines at about 70 characters.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to
maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes
installing and downloading
jennyw wrote:
I'd like to hear how Debian old-timers work with this.
we deal with it. i run cyrus imap 1.5.x and many other old packages
from stable. they are in stable for a reason..they are stable :)
its a small price to pay to have a rock solid system that i don't have
to worry about
Good point. Think about those folks who install an OS in an office suit.
There may be a dozen or more computers that need to work worry free. That's
where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker reboot', 'tinker
reboot', but a check of system logs and a warm feeling that it's alright
I started using Debian because folks suggested it
was easy to maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes
installing and downloading things a lot easier than other distributions.
However ... I'm not (yet) a heavy Linux user, and I find that a lot of times I
want
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to maintain
(e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes installing and
downloading things a lot easier than other distributions. However ...
I'm not (yet) a heavy
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