Re: [SLUG] Re: Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

2000-11-01 Thread chesty
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:09:44PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > apt-get install vomit-bag > > > You've created a monster. echo "deb-virtual car://jeff.waugh/home/kitchen/frige cold main freezer crisper" \ >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install beer -- chest

Re: [SLUG] Re: Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> apt-get install vomit-bag You've created a monster. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- "A rest with a fermata is the moral opposite of the fast food restaurant with express lane." - James Gleick, Faster

[SLUG] Re: Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

2000-11-01 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jeff Waugh} > Not a chance - why is Debian special? Because it's a community as well as an > operating system. The more manpower the better, and that's why you'll find > that Debian people are amongst the most helpful you can find. > > Without any profits or shareholders to-- wait a moment

Re: [SLUG] Re: Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

2000-10-30 Thread James Wilkinson
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh generated: >Alternatively, try Conectiva's xf86cfg. (How many permutations of X, Free, >86 and Config can we turn into a filename?) There's a command to do just that. # apt-get install an $ an xfree86config fixer cog fen exec grin off exec ring off exec frog f

Re: [SLUG] Re: Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> you could just install task-helix-gnome. hopefully that would end up > pulling in all of X too. (I won't say anything about not relying on the Helix packages to be as absolutely top-notch as the mainline packages...) 8< uninformed comments about potato given that I haven't used it much at

[SLUG] Re: Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

2000-10-30 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jeff Waugh} > > > So lets assume for a moment I want to get X windows working, preferably > > with Helix Gnome. > > First off, run either: > a) tasksel, and choose the "X Window System" task, or, > b) apt-get install task-x-window-system > > apt-get install task-helix-gnome you co