Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-06 Thread Graham Kettlewell
Jean Francois Martinez wrote: I think that it is really cool, spiffy, neato that RH 7.2 installs and pretty much just works. For the last three installs of 7.2 I did, I *needed* to make only a couple of little tweaks to get basic functionality going. This is a good thing. I work as a

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little brains are unable to decypzer the scripts who configure the network in RedHat or Mandrake and that is why they want a bare bones

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Sun, 5 May 2002 11:52:43 -0500 Ronald W. Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little brains are unable to decypzer the scripts who

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-05 Thread Riku Meskanen
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little brains are unable to decypzer the scripts who configure the network in RedHat or

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-04 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 15:42, John Summerfield wrote: Now you can have 'openoffice.org' 1.0. Good to see I'm the only one who sees having 'dot' something in every product a major irritance :p .NET . Sun, the dot in dot com . OpenOffice.org . ehm... RedHat.com Linux.NET (R) (TM)? :P --

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-04 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 15:42, John Summerfield wrote: Now you can have 'openoffice.org' 1.0. Good to see I'm the only one who sees having 'dot' something in every product a major irritance :p I think (why am I starting everything with those words?) there is a trademark problem. See

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-03 Thread Benjamin Burger
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:16:33 +1000 I found this little article in my mail and would like to hear any thoughts? http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-03 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 22:55, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: I am getting tired of the asssimilation easy distribution with distro for newbies. It has also as a side effect some people believe that chnaging to a difficult distribution will maek them as elite. To begin with difficult

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Michael Schwendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2002-05-02, Kevin Waterson wrote: stuff working. Nothing for Linux newbies. The text mode installer asks many specific questions about graphics adapter and monitor capabilities, that reminded me of old Slackware. ?!? There is no

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Thu, 2 May 2002 15:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Michael Schwendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2002-05-02, Kevin Waterson wrote: :I found this little article in my mail and :would like to hear any thoughts? :http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html = Last updated on

A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Kevin Waterson
I found this little article in my mail and would like to hear any thoughts? http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html Kind regards Kevin ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
KW == Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW I found this little article in my mail and KW would like to hear any thoughts? KW http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html Well, for one the comments were made nearly 4 years ago, so alternatives has been ported to