Heh. I find this discussion mildly interesting from where I sit, a
mostly xBSD user.
It's funny, too, 'cause I didn't start using FreeBSD for my workstations
and personal servers until I worked in a data center environment with
mixed UNIX systems. At the University of Kentucky's College of
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:33:03 -0500 (EST), Benjamin Scott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, at 11:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Are there only the official Debian repositories or are there others that
> > don't follow the Debian standards?
>
> One does see third-party packages
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, at 11:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are there only the official Debian repositories or are there others that
> don't follow the Debian standards?
One does see third-party packages for Debian, and even repositories, but
they're a lot less common then for, say, Red Hat/Fedor
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:42:15PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, at 4:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Debian's equivalent of "rpm" is "dpkg". Apt is sort of like up2date on
> > a large quantity of steroids. 8)
>
> I've never, ever been that impressed by the functionalit
WARNING: I'm being my usual tactless self here. :-)
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, at 11:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For those of you who have Comcast cable internet, you are probably aware
> that there was a recent change in their service regarding their newsserver
> for news groups.
I didn't ev
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:42:15 -0500 (EST), Benjamin Scott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've never, ever been that impressed by the functionality of apt-get vs
> anything else. Yes, it manages package dependencies. So do/did yum,
> up2date, rpmfind, and autorpm. I've been having my RPM depende
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, at 12:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This started cropping up last week. Our DNS server is running fine, then
> for no reason it dies with this error:
>
> exiting (due to assertion failure)
As Kevin Clark said, you really should know to provide more info. :)
One thing
(Long-time members of this list will recognize the subject, which I drag
out whenever I get particularly irritated by all the Debian elitists who
think nobody's ever installed software before. If you're not interested in
this kind of crap, just ignore this thread.)
(The inflammatory nature o
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:27 pm, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:11 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > Coming from a Redhat background, all this apt/synaptics/... stuff is new
> > and a bit confusing. At least there was just one command to rpm (well,
> > there used to be just one
RE: Monadnock Linux User Group, Thursday, Feb 10th, in Peterborough, NH
Due to the winter storm about to hit our area and some forecasts
showing a
worst case of up to 20 inches of snow by tomorrow, this month's
Monadnock
Linux User Group meeting will be cancelled.
We will resume the normal meeti
Hi Gang.
At one time or another all the people on the "To: list" made the mistake of
raising their hands and saying that they would be willing to volunteer for
doing some booth duty at Linuxworld. Yes, you will be "boothbabes".
We are going to have a simple booth. We will have electrical power,
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:11 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> Coming from a Redhat background, all this apt/synaptics/... stuff is new
> and a bit confusing. At least there was just one command to rpm (well,
> there used to be just one...)
Debian's equivalent of "rpm" is "dpkg". Apt is sort of like up
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 22:46 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
>
> You probably want to say:
>
> apt-get install openoffice.org-help-en
That did the trick! Thanks!
> ...as indicated by saying:
>
>apt-cache search openoffice | fgrep help
Coming from a Redhat background, all this apt/synaptic
On Feb 8, 2005, at 23:24, Numberwhun wrote:
Now, I did get online with Comcast and talked about this with their
tech support, but all they could come up with is, "Giganews offers
unlimited access for $24.95/month". Again, why pay when it was FREE
before.
Does the Public Utilities Commission reg
Numberwhun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>... I was just wondering if anyone here knows of a nice, free new
> server that allows unlimited downloads/uploads, without monitoring?
Terra News (http://www.teranews.com/) probably doesn't fit your bill
but I thought that I'd mention them anyways. ~$4 f
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