Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Chris Lale
Steve Block wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made i

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Chris Lale
Steve Block wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made i

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:48 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wro

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Ru

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 16:17 -0600, Steve Block wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > >> > so don't c

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread gl34
> It depends, and this question demands another. What did you install, > Knoppix or Debian? ARRGH! I'm lost in a novel by Kafka! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Block
Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I h

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Please use reply-to-mailing-list, not reply, when making an on-topic response to a list message. On Wednesday 08 December 2004 1:31 pm, you wrote: > > > That doesn't negate the fact that Knoppix isn't Debian. > > ok, but when the OS ignores changes to inittab and XF86Config is that > knoppix

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread gl34
> That doesn't negate the fact that Knoppix isn't Debian. It's based on ok, but when the OS ignores changes to inittab and XF86Config is that knoppix or debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Chris Lale
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, >> so don't care that much about Sarge. >> > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I hav

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I have it on my system. $ apt-cache policy gnome-session gnome-se

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > >>> > On Tue, Dec 07,

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: [snip] Hi Rich, I have met a few of the ubuntu D

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: [snip] > Hi Rich, > I have met a few of the ubuntu Devel

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The f

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > > (IMHO) of main is that these are pac

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > > who have undergone a peer review

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > who have undergone a peer review process before getting commit rights to > main. Knoppix, ubun

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the > debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > > searches for knoppix return with many references to de

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 4:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen > has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > searches for knoppix return with many references t

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread gl34
> > Knoppix is not Debian - depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed searches for knoppix return with many references to debian near the top of search results for knoppix + list I find [EMAIL PR

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I migrated from slack8 to debian? via a knoppix3.4 livecd which I > installed on a K6 500 box. Knoppix is not Debian - it is a LiveCD that is a mixture of Stable, Testing, and Unstable that does not correspond to any actual Debian version. If you want an actual version

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where are the drivers? the c files? I looked everywhere. Found lots of > h files, no c's. On the CD there's a big knoppix file. Are the files > I'm looking for in there? How do I access them? Knoppix is not Debian. You'll probab

new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread gl34
Hi all, I migrated from slack8 to debian? via a knoppix3.4 livecd which I installed on a K6 500 box. I apologize if these seem obvious to you. Where are the drivers? the c files? I looked everywhere. Found lots of h files, no c's. On the CD there's a big knoppix file. Are the files I'm lookin