Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:33:24AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:10:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > That looks excellent. There's already quite a lot of cooperation between > > HP and Debian, with a number of Debian developers employed by HP and > > improving the distribution i

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:10:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > That looks excellent. There's already quite a lot of cooperation between > HP and Debian, with a number of Debian developers employed by HP and > improving the distribution in directions that are favourable to both > parties. Employ

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:29:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:39:38PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If somebody actually set up full scale enterprise-style global support > > for Debian, then we'd be happy to link to them, and probably help them

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:39:38PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:56:37PM +0200, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > > Most common reply to this kind of comments is that you can always buy > > similar support for Debian, but www.debian.org/consultants doesn't list > >

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:56:37PM +0200, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > Most common reply to this kind of comments is that you can always buy > similar support for Debian, but www.debian.org/consultants doesn't list > any big companies like IBM, etc. that could guarantee global support. > Even www.progeny.

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:14:03PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:46:12 -0300, Mariano Wahlmann escreveu: > > > i want to know if debian > > has the an automatic update tool (like up2date), i read that debian use > > apt > >

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Juha Ylitalo
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:33, Vineet Kumar wrote: ... > debian's maintenance and upgrade facilities blow everything at redhat > out of the water. Completely. In the redhat world, a reinstall is SOP. > With Debian, you'll never have to reinstall. Upgrades just work. While I am using Debian in my

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mariano Wahlmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031204 05:46]: > Hi, I'm currently admin , and here we use RedHat distribution, but last > tendencies of RedHat, told me that i must to change my Linux > Distribution, i thought about Debian, wich is very popular, but i want > to know if debian has the an aut

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:46:12AM -0300, Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > Hi, I'm currently admin , and here we use RedHat distribution, but last > tendencies of RedHat, told me that i must to change my Linux > Distribution, i thought about Debian, wich is v

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:14:03PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:46:12 -0300, Mariano Wahlmann escreveu: > > > i want to know if debian > > has the an automatic update tool (like up2date), i read that debian use > > apt > > Which is much bette

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:46:12 -0300, Mariano Wahlmann escreveu: > i want to know if debian > has the an automatic update tool (like up2date), i read that debian use > apt Which is much better than up2date. > how long did debian keep support?, RedHat keep releasing uptades for > 5 years f