On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:14, Joe Rhett wrote: > > So much for the topic at hand... in general: fear not. > > It's part of the Linux learning process that one learns where to pick up > > information. man, info, /usr/share/doc/, www... google is your friend, > > but google is not the be-all and end-all of everything. > > Especially if you what you're looking for can't easily be phrased as a > > search term, or scores far too many hits. > > I've been using Linux since 0.7x kernels, so you can skip the patronizing. > Last time I checked, some of my patches were still in the driver sources > for various adapters. > > The point I was making is that most of us have better things to do than > search more than 5 pages of google hits. If the 'right places' to get > Debian applications were listed on the debian homepages, this wouldn't be > necessary. (more on this below) All of the "right" places already ARE listed on the Debian homepage. Sites like apt-get.org list all UNOFFICIAL packages which may very well kill your entire system or worse. Hence, they are intentionally NOT listed on debian.org. Also, I don't believe Christian was trying to be patronizing. He may have been incorrect in assuming that if you didn't know that much about Debian that you also didn't know that much about Linux, but the advice he gave was good none the less. Though I must say I'm extremely curious how you managed to use a 0.7x kernel that never existed. The last release of the kernel after 0.12 was 0.95 after all. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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