Re: Debian. Gonna give it a whirl :)
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> Pfff, I really don't know how many Kbs of packages you need to
> upgrade. The Xfree86 packages changed since 2.2r0, IIRC, so it could
> be quite a few Kbs..
Too much. It takes already an hour to download the kernel source (ideal
line), and that is only 15MB. You will be better off buying the cd's.
Depending on your demands, you can buy only two new CD's and download some
other stuff you might need.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
>
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 14:44, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I have to work ou what would be cheaper to do !
> > Approximately how much data are we talking about -- I have
> > just a 56k dialup ... I can get the CD's in Holland for about
> > 8 guldens each...
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> > > No, you don't need a new CD set. Just install Debian using the disks
> > > you have and use apt-get to upgrade to 2.2r2 via the Internet.
> > >
> > > The apt-get method of installing packages is the other reason switch
> > > to debian! ;)
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Remco
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 13:36, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > >
> > > > hello,
> > > > I am looking to make a stable Linux desktop environment.
> > > > I already have one from another Linux distribution, but I
> > > > am very unhappy with the direction Suse is taking.
> > > > That's the politics.
> > > > Now the practise.
> > > > I have the complete CD set from 2.2 first release.
> > > > I understand there is a new release available.
> > > >
> > > > Do I need to get the whole CD set again ?
> > > > Or will CD1 do the whole trick ?
> > > >
> > > > Advice ? Comments.
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Cliff
>
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