chesty wrote:
> > If you do go ahead and download the .deb archive, you'll find yourself
> > needing to get more intimate with the package management system than you
> > might wish.
>
> dpkg -i package.deb
IFF you have already removed all conflicting pacakges, installed all
missing packages on
A big thank you to everyone for their comments concerning both of my
questions. I've decided to give debian a stab specially since I can
apparently use Helix Gnome which I've only recently discovered and wanted to
check out. I'll keep you posted.. and all you Debian gurus out there can
probably ex
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:37:13PM +1000, Roland Turner wrote:
> This is the stuff of religous wars...
Adding some fuel.
> Same things that others are saying: package management and
> configuration.
After using debian for years (buzz was my first) then lately trying
redhat because some people
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:59:42AM +, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Why does woody make for a better desktop? You can install Helix GNOME!
>
> The Helix people are committed to have Gnome working with potato, that is,
> if it doesn't work for you, file a bu
From: Dan Treacy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Firstly does anyone know of any good resources for info on Win2k/linux
>multibooting. I have a few but most aren't that great. Just
>wondering if
>there were some that I missed.
Check out http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm. The HOWTO is kinda nice
> Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> The Helix people are committed to have Gnome working with potato, that is,
> if it doesn't work for you, file a bug report via their (not Debian's) BTS.
True, true... They're providing all of the necessary packages (above and
beyond potato, as well as their GNOME distro)
Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why does woody make for a better desktop? You can install Helix GNOME!
The Helix people are committed to have Gnome working with potato, that is,
if it doesn't work for you, file a bug report via their (not Debian's) BTS.
--
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out!
Dan Treacy wrote:
> Second is related to this I'm still tossing up between Mandrake and Debian..
> I've used RH/Mandrake pretty much since I've started using Linux (Although
> my first experience was actually with Slackware) but after seeing alot of
> the comments both here and elsewhere I'm pret
> Dan Treacy wrote:
>
> Firstly does anyone know of any good resources for info on Win2k/linux
> multibooting. I have a few but most aren't that great. Just wondering if
> there were some that I missed.
SLUG is a pretty good resource... ;)
My preference is to ignore the OS-specific boot loader
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:02:20PM +1000, Dan Treacy wrote:
> Just a couple of questions:
>
> Firstly does anyone know of any good resources for info on Win2k/linux
> multibooting. I have a few but most aren't that great. Just wondering if
> there were some that I missed.
There's a WinNT/Linux m
Just a couple of questions:
Firstly does anyone know of any good resources for info on Win2k/linux
multibooting. I have a few but most aren't that great. Just wondering if
there were some that I missed.
Second is related to this I'm still tossing up between Mandrake and Debian..
I've used RH/Man
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