Thank you to those offering me ways to get install media for a
pre-stable Debian Jessie.
I had already made the decision to obtain a release only after it
has become stable and then purchase a _complete_ set of DVDs.
I have complete sets of both Squeeze and Wheezy. Squeeze is a
better math for
On Dec 12, 2014, at 5:40 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Louis Kowolowski wrote:
For the cost of 3 DVDs, somebody is likely to be willing to download and
burn them for you. Just have to coordinate meeting at PLUG for the
handoff.
Louis,
He
On Saturday, December 13, 2014, Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lou...@cryptomonkeys.org'); wrote:
Point being, there are lots of helpful people around and this isn’t a
difficult problem to solve.
I am still unclear on exactly what this problem is.
Is
Robert == Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com writes:
Robert I am still unclear on exactly what this problem is.
Robert Is it wanting to install Debian on a local system? Is it
Robert wanting to create a customize Debian, i.e. your own distro? Is
Robert it wanting to get familiar with using
sure, I'd do it, or you could get someone from fiverr.com to do it, dl and
burn the results of http://cgi.build.live-systems.org/cgi-bin/live-build
that he set up...
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net
wrote:
Robert == Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com
Nat Taylor wrote:
Part of me cringes when you discuss intentionally installing old stable
instead of current stable, just for future security/upgrade purposes.
That was not my reason. I'm on dialup there fore I install *ONLY*
from complete physical sets of DVDs (why I choose that solution
Louis Kowolowski wrote:
Not to mention from an operational perspective, basing your work on something
that is already obsolete means you will either:
a) make more work for yourself by forcing yourself to do things multiple
times just to get up to a modern system
Unless Jessie+1 breaks
On Dec 12, 2014, at 1:13 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
...
I’d suggest working off jessie. You will have the biggest bang for buck on
work spent vs. longevity of work, and that will give you more time plan for
future changes as they come down the pipe.
Jessie is
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Louis Kowolowski wrote:
For the cost of 3 DVDs, somebody is likely to be willing to download and
burn them for you. Just have to coordinate meeting at PLUG for the
handoff.
Louis,
He lives in SW Missouri. :-)
But, someone can pay the $1 or so postage and mail the
Thank you for the many comments. Several got me thinking. I now
have a better idea of how/why I got to where I am.
In summary:
I am trying to move away from Windows (and similarly
Canonical) - the vendor
knows best syndrome which yields excess baggage installed by
default and
Part of me cringes when you discuss intentionally installing old stable
instead of current stable, just for future security/upgrade purposes. Will
the group applying security fixes do it forever? (Long Term Support until
2016-02-?[193] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#cite_note-195 ) If you
Not to mention from an operational perspective, basing your work on something
that is already obsolete means you will either:
a) make more work for yourself by forcing yourself to do things multiple times
just to get up to a modern system
b) never update because its forever “too much work”
I’d
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