After hearing Mike's speil on irc (irc.openprojects.net, #sunlug), I
gave deb a try.
Well, I guess I screwed it up a bit...used woody boot disks, and didn't
tell dselect I wanted *woody* debs, and lo and behold, I got some
out-of-date potatoe distro that was half broke. I say out of date
because it loaded that 2.2.20 kernel and XFree 3.3.6, both of which went
out of style with ssh 1.x. I say broke because immediately after the
install, apt_get puked after every try ot install after the initial
break-down on some unheard (to me) lib. After a few minor tweaks (That
geez, if I hadn't ever used linux before, would have never pulled
off...gg debian) I had a semi-funtional install. I say semi-functional
because even *after* I changed dselect to woody, then sid download
sources, I STILL could not get it to pull down anything half-way current
as far as kernel or Xservers go.
This is not a Debian Bash, I repeat, this is *NOT* a Debian bash.
This is a debian bash:
welcomebackto1999@broken:$
All jokes aside, I didn't get enough time to really try it out -- I was
in serious need of true X capabilities (brother was lost somewhere in
florida, needed to get at mapquest) and had to revert to my SuSE disks.
I'm patiently waiting for the slides Matt has promised to see if Debian
is *possibly* a viable alternative to my slackware-sadism-ish ways.
tar zxf package.tar.gz
cd package
./configure
make
su
make install
Marc W.
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"Freedom as in Free Beer is what I'm after"
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 23:16, Matthew Moen wrote:
> Thus spake Paul M Foster on the 11 day of the 07 month in the year 2002:
>
> snip
> >
> > One clarification I should make to a question that was asked. Debian 2.2
> > runs on the 2.0 series kernel. It has since been updated by various
> > 2.2rX releases, which may use later kernels. But the original Debian 2.2
> > uses the 2.0 series.
>
> For further clarification, if you install Debian stable (a.k.a. potato)
> over the 'net now, you'll be installing Debian Linux 2.2rev6. This version
> comes with the 2.2.19 version of the Linux kernel.
>
> These days, you probably instead want Debian version 2.4 (a.k.a. woody)
> as it will be officially released "Real Soon Now" (TM). Keeping up to
> date with Debian is near trivial, so there is no real reason not to use
> Woody at this point unless you're running a production server.
>
> A point I meant to make last night was that these code names (buzz,
> rex, bo, hamm, slink, potato, woody and sid) come from the Toy Story
> movies in the event you didn't figure it out. Once upon a time Bruce
> Perens was head Debian Project maintainer and also happened to work for
> Pixar at the time.
>
> As promised I'll try to get the slides up on the web some time this
> weekend.
>
>
> --
> Matthew Moen
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