Re: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-28 Thread thc
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:47:47PM -0500, George Metz scribbled: > BYOLinux is another site that actually is designed for absolute green > folks, but overall it provides better descriptions of what it is you're > doing. Check it out at http://www.byolinux.org/ if you want. Decisions, decisions...

Re: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-28 Thread thc
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:58:04AM -0600, David Douthitt scribbled: > You might want to consider Elfstone; if I remember correctly it is one > of the few (the only?) distribution which uses Motif instead of some > other window manager. Well, I think that regardless of what distribution I use, I'm

Re: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-28 Thread David Douthitt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's the list of distributions, mostly non-mainstream, whose > claims caused me to be interested: > http://www.jblinux.net/ > http://www.beehive.nu/ > http://www.rocklinux.org/ > http://www.trustix.net/ > http://tiny.seul.org/ > http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ > http:/

Re: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-28 Thread thc
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:51:59AM -0500, George Metz scribbled: > I strongly recommend, if you have the bandwidth and a CD burner, that you > download and try Progeny Debian (ftp or http at archive.progeny.com) for a > go. It's based off of a fairly recent snapshot of Woody, and while > somewhat

RE: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-27 Thread George Metz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Steven Peck wrote: > My thanks, Quite welcome. The names behind Progeny are definitely notable - Bruce Perens for one, Ian Murdock (The Ian in DebIan) for another. Progeny very well may be the one to break into the Desktop market once and for all. > Downloading Progeny as I

RE: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-27 Thread Steven Peck
sday, March 27, 2001 10:52 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of > Oxygen (March > 2001)) > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Steven Peck wrote: > > > fine. When I get Debian to install satifactorily, I do > h

[OT] RE: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-27 Thread George Metz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Steven Peck wrote: > fine. When I get Debian to install satifactorily, I do have a long term > goal of replacing my IIS server with a Debian Apache system, and my seperate > Exchange server with a qmail setup. Just got to get a stable understandable > Linux system installed

[OT] Re: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March 2001))

2001-03-27 Thread George Metz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jack Coates wrote: > now now, let's all play nice before someone gets an eye put out. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's just fun. =) > Besides, everyone knows that real men use links :-) Well, since I eat quiche, that's irrelevant for me. =) > M