Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 9 Apr 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > ... >> I put some code out there. I make things work better for my >> packages -- and you, my friend, are reaping the benefits of that >> labour. Calling me names just helps me place you in my own >> est

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: ... > I put some code out there. I make things work better for my > packages -- and you, my friend, are reaping the benefits of that > labour. Calling me names just helps me place you in my own > estimation. > > manoj I cut

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 5 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >>> And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time >>> unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. >>> Volunteering is giving without expecting

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 5 Apr 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:16, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On 4 Apr 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> I never said they were hostile toward me. And that is not what >>> I've seen in terms of complaints. It's usually along the lines of >>> "Why can't they edit t

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:39:54 -0500 Mike McCarty wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >>>And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time >>>unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. >>>Volunteering is giving wi

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:39:20 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:38, Chris Metzler wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:29:14 -0400 >> >>Hal Vaughan wrote: >>>On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: > A

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI. This is fiction. Everyone who volunteers get

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:38, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:29:14 -0400 > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > >On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: > >>On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 > >> > >>Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>> And that proves even more that you are not volunteering y

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:29:14 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: >>On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 >> >>Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time >>> unless you get something for it.  That's not volunteering

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time > > unless you get something for it.  That's not volunteering. > > Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI. >

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: > > And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time > unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. > Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI. This is fiction. Everyone who volunteers gets a return on thei

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 06 April 2006 04:19, Hal Vaughan wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:16, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >---> > On 4 Apr 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote: >---> > > I never said they were hostile toward me. And that is not what >---> > > I've seen in terms of complai

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: one of the symptoms of "user friendliness". Ubuntu, I assume, makes the assumption that they are pulling in windows users who want a windows type mail environment with MUA talking smtp and pop to smarthosts out on

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:03:27 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > one of the symptoms of "user friendliness". Ubuntu, I assume, makes > > the assumption that they are pulling in windows users who want a > > windows

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> > This leads me to ask: Why are YOU here? Why do YOU use linux? Why do > YOU bother with this list? I use Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, whatever, because its made computing fun for me again. Plus, I can get actual work done while having that fun :) A pgpj8DbM8GbM9.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:15:08 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > Every time someone suggests something > > that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is > > always hostility in this group and elsewhere. I just re-read that and wan

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:00:33 -0400 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think in the long run there'll always be config files that are easy to > edit, but we're just seeing more and more tools that make Linux easier > and easier to use. In the long run, it's a good thing. > > I notice

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:16, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 4 Apr 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I never said they were hostile toward me. And that is not what > > I've seen in terms of complaints. It's usually along the lines of > > "Why can't they edit text files, like we do?" I have yet to

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 4 Apr 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I never said they were hostile toward me. And that is not what I've > seen in terms of complaints. It's usually along the lines of "Why > can't they edit text files, like we do?" I have yet to see someone > complain that the problem with a gui or easy-to-use

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: one of the symptoms of "user friendliness". Ubuntu, I assume, makes the assumption that they are pulling in windows users who want a windows type mail environment with MUA talking smtp and pop to smarthosts out on the 'net at large instead o

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Smith
%% Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> I am glad to see that the FSF has at last recognized that mm> one-letter switches instead of keyword-driven command line parsing mm> is a bad thing, and have started instituting common and mm> entire-word style options, like "--help" across t

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nor does anyone pay them to insult newbies. I can only conclude that > those miscreants are VOLUNTEERING to insult newbies. They do it because > they want to. They take time out of their lives to insult newbies with > no thought of remuneration. Thank god there are

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:20:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] No. I object to most configuration "wizards", but not because I want to hand-edit text files by hand, using emacs. Or vi. Or nano. Or even (does anyone remember?) teco. I've been able to

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:30:45PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I won't deny that the attitude mentioned above exists. I have seen it, > too. Sometimes it is warranted, frequently times it is not. But these > people ar VOLUNTEERS. No one is paying the people on this list to > answer quest

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:20:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:00:33PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:49:00 -0700 > > > > > > Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:59 -0500, anoop aryal wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:47 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > >>Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > > > [snip] > > > > People who love UNIX almost universally hate

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > >>Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> > >>>Every time someone suggests something > >>>that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is > >>>always h

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mike McCarty wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Every time someone suggests something that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is always hostility in this group and elsewhere. Do you have some exa

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread anoop aryal
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:47 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >>Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>>Every time someone suggests something > >>>that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is > >>>always hostility i

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Every time someone suggests something that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is always hostility in this group and elsewhere. Do you have some examples? I've seen and

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Every time someone suggests something > > that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is > > always hostility in this group and elsewhere. > > Do you have some examples? I've seen and watched it

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:00:33PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:49:00 -0700 > > > > Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:49:10AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > > > > I'm gettin

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hal Vaughan wrote: Every time someone suggests something that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is always hostility in this group and elsewhere. Do you have some examples? I do not agree with this at all. What is easier for you might not actually be the correct thing to

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: > think the resentment and frustration is not from the fact that there > are other ways to edit config files now, but that the once hallowed > geek space is being filled with non-geeks and true geeks no longer feel > like they have a special playground all their own with terms

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 15:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:49:00 -0700 > > > > Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:49:10AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: [snip] > still be recogni

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:49:00 -0700 > > Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:49:10AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > > > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm > > > used to using D

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:49:00 -0700 Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:49:10AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to > > using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they > > have

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 21:19:33 -0400 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 19:28, Steve Lamb wrote: > > D. Michael McFarland wrote: > > > Ubuntu is a fine distribution. It works for my friends and it's > > > easy for me to administer for them. But the overall Ubuntu > > >

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:49:10AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to > using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they > have some similarities. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:28, Steve Lamb wrote: > D. Michael McFarland wrote: > > Ubuntu is a fine distribution. It works for my friends and it's > > easy for me to administer for them. But the overall Ubuntu > > experience is a little too sweet for my taste. > > You might like Mepis for fri

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Steve Lamb
D. Michael McFarland wrote: > Ubuntu is a fine distribution. It works for my friends and it's easy > for me to administer for them. But the overall Ubuntu experience is a > little too sweet for my taste. You might like Mepis for friend's machines. It goes out of its way to make things frein

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to > using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they > have some similarities. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making this > transition, t

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Hodgins Family writes: > One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command. During > installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are caught off > guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and password. It > can be unnerving. I think that not automatically c

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 06:19 -0600, Hodgins Family wrote: > Hi Phillipe: > > One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command. > During installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are > caught off guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and > password. I

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-04-03, Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Phillipe: > > One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command. > During installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are > caught off guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and > password. It

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Hodgins Family
Hi Phillipe: One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command. During installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are caught off guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and password. It can be unnerving. A root password CAN be set up, though. And task

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Mitja Podreka
Adam Funk wrote: I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they have some similarities. I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making this transition, things that will catch me by su

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-04-03, Björn Lindström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used >> to using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that >> they have some similarities. >> >> I'd appreciate any suggest

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:49 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to > using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they > have some similarities. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making this >

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Björn Lindström
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used > to using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that > they have some similarities. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making > this transition, things t

Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Adam Funk
I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they have some similarities. I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making this transition, things that will catch me by surprise, etc. Thanks