Re: I'm BACK!!!
On 2/29/08, Doug MacFarlane <madmac63@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. After
> suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable package
> management, I'm BACK!!!
>
> Boy did I miss you guys . . .
>
> So I ran the 4.0 r3 netinst, and just for giggles ran an apt-get update and
> apt-get upgrade. Nothing needed, but cool.
>
> Looking at sources.list, it appears we now use distribution names, such as etch,
> instead of stable and testing and unstable to name the hierarchies? Is this
> correct?
>
> The Debian Installed didn't pickup the built-in sound card on my Dell XPS 200.
> No surprise there - neither did Suse/SLED.
>
> I'm on a jihad to rid my life of Windows. I converted my laptop some time ago,
> and then deleted the windows vista partition about a month ago. Now it's time
> for my desktop. I need some guidance:
>
> 1. Who would like to help me with the Sound Card issue? We can do it via email
> offline from this list. I've never been really good with loading modules and
> drivers . . .
>
> 2. What to do about sync'ing with my Treo 750 (running windows mobile 6). I'd
> like for gmail/google calendar to be my authority, and use imap on my laptop and
> desktop (evolution - any other suggestions?), but how do we deal with sync'ing,
> especially contacts, to the Treo/WinMobile?
>
> 3. Windows emulation. My parents will visit in 2.5 weeks and will want Pretty
> Good Solitaire because it has a game called Thirteen Packs in it that is an old
> family favorite.
>
> 4. I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server - I use Dragon Naturally
> Speaking to do speech to text conversion of meetings that I record on my Olympus
> pocket recorder. Unless you have a better idea . . .
>
> Thanks in advance - I'm so glad to be back.
>
> Doug
> madmac63@gmail.com
>
>
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Hey,
Welcome back!
I'm not sure when the change to dist names instead of stable etc was
made, (the old way still works btw) but I believe it is to help
prevent unexpected dist-upgrades when stable is moved on.
Windows emulation/compatibility wise: being gone for so long you
might find that wine has caught up a little and may be able to run
some of the apps you're wanting. 'Most everything else will run in a
vm.
I haven't tried tackling any of the other issues, I've never come up
against them and wouldn't want to lead you astray. Hopefully someone
else can help you out.
cheers,
Owen.
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