My question is, what distro should I be using if I want newer than
stable software and good package management, And I don't care about
compiling my own unless I have to?
Since you're capable of working within the Linux system, Gentoo is the
obvious choice...very up-to-date, and the emerge package
TOPICS: dselect, Debian, backports, disclaimer, show me your distros!
First, dselect. I think I'm being harder on it than I should be - I
have little doubt that it is smarter than apt - apt will happily hose my
system with only one confirmation where dselect shows recommended
dependency resolutio
Is woo the new w00t? My dad has used the word w00t a few times so it is
implicitly no longer cool. You may be on to something with woo.
Woo.
Did your dad actually use zeroes in the middle? woot != w00t...the
latter being much cooler due to its greater level of l33tness.
Ross D.
> Is woo the new w00t? My dad has used the word w00t a few times so it is
> implicitly no longer cool. You may be on to something with woo.
>
> Woo.
Please. Your dad probably used it during the 90's watching Arsenio Hall.
Woo-woo.
Do you wave your fist in a circular motion and use the words "do
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:02:39AM -0600, Ian Monroe wrote:
> And in case someone is following along from Google-land, I
> think dselect probably is a good idea if you want to be really
> cautious about not breaking something. But it usually isn't
> worth the extra effort and certainly isn't if you
Is woo the new w00t? My dad has used the word w00t a few times so it is
implicitly no longer cool. You may be on to something with woo.
Woo.
And chiming in with Ross, how is using back ports defeat the ease of apt
while using testing and unstable doesn't? At least with the KDE back
port, you just
Woo TSLUG.
Yes yes...go go nocturnal computer people!
Mixing them seemed like the right thing to do, to maintain the ability
to get security updates - Debian only maintains security patches for the
stable version.
The right thing to do...is not to use Debian... It seems that you want
the new
Woo TSLUG.
Mixing them seemed like the right thing to do, to maintain the ability
to get security updates - Debian only maintains security patches for the
stable version.
I agree w/ you about dpackage at this point. Bleh.
I agree that it is possible to find the packages for Debian stable (eg:
b
When I used Debian on my computer I always found dselect to be a bother
and started using apt-get exclusively. This was back in the day when
woody had just been released. So long long ago.
My opinion is that you shouldn't mix default testing and unstable. At
the KDE website they have packages f
To tide you over till the next meeting, you might give
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html
a try. Chapter 4 minus the Midnight Commander junk is pretty
quickstart-ish. If you have questions about the install, Ch 3 might be
interesting. Chapters 6 and 9 & up are proba
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:44:31PM -0600, Ashley Murdock wrote:
> Ok..so I installed debian on a laptop (or at least I think i did!!) and now
> I don't know how to use it. I can login but I don't know anything...like
> what i need to change first offhow to start the visual interface..etc.
> I'
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:34:52PM -0500, Benjamin Story wrote:
> I know that Debian people like things archaic, but really a
> wood CD? CD-R blanks are cheap, leave the poor trees alone.
Archaic? Us? Why we even have Mozilla 1.0 in (I don't know how
that got upgraded--it was supposed to be 0.
I know that Debian people like things arcahic, but really a wood CD? CD-R blanks are
cheap, leave the poor trees alone.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:55:38AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote:
> I have the Debian Woody CD.
>
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