Re: debian 8
On 04/04/2015, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:10:21 +0800
> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >> > > > On 03/04/2015, Pol Hallen wrote:
>> >> > > > > I read that at 25 april
>> >> > > > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html)
>> >> > > > > should be available latest debian version.
>> >> > > > >
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > What are the expected differences between Debian 7 and Debian 8?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ppc64el/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
>> >> >
>> >> > There's something I miss here. Why does your link contains *wheezy*,
>> >> > instead of *jessie*? Also, why *ppc64el*? It's hardly a commodity
>> >> > architecture.
>> >>
>> >> No idea, the top of the page says: "Chapter 2. What's new in Debian 8"
>> >>
>> >> I'm sorry I didn't see the link, I simply went to debian.org and
>> >> searched for "jessie gnome classic", which returned this:
>> >>
>> >> https://search.debian.org/cgi-bin/omega?DB=en&P=jessie+gnome+classic
>> >>
>> >> The top link there says, again: "Chapter 2. What's new in Debian 8",
>> >> so
>> >> I expected that to be what I wanted. Mea culpa.
>> >
>> > Oh I see. Consider this link then:
>> >
>> > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
>> >
>>
>> Interestingly, that link does not resolve/open, in the version of
>> Arora running on Debian 6, but, opens in the version of rekonq running
>> on Debian 6. By Debian 6, here, I mean Debian 6 LTS.
>
> An expected thing these days. You see, today's common knowledge is that
> SSL3.0 is bad, TLS1.0 is bad and even TLS1.1 is bad. TLS1.2 and maybe
> HTTP/2 is the way to go.
>
> In particular, www.debian.org does not accept HTTPS connections *if*
> the browser is claiming that all it supports is SSL3.0.
>
> The same common knowledge is that the about the only reason to keep
> SSL3.0 support on site is to support dreaded *cough* Internet Explorer
> 6. Maybe 7. Hell, I'm not a webmaster to know these things in detail.
>
> Guess we know that there's real browser (Arora) to care about in
> addition to the toy one (IE).
>
> Try replacing https:// with http://. Really.
>
Thank you.
It worked.
It should have occurred to me, to try something lke that.
I guess the sharpness and brightness, have dulled for me, over the
years (too many years).
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
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you'll know what the answer means."
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Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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published by Pan Books, 1992
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