[Hudlug] Re: Re: Obtaining Discs

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 4:36 pm, Tom Croft wrote:
> Thanks for all the assistance and offers... it's fantastic.  I'll
> have to overcome my predjudices and go with Mandrake.
>
> If it's from France and runs emacs, it can't be too bad.
>
> Obviously using Red Hat would mean I can't deride Microsoft + Apple
> on the basis of being US Corporations, and SuSE, I remember now,
> intermixes non-libre software, which is absolutely no good.
>
> ----
>
> Tim Wrote:
> > Knoppix is debian :)
>
> Knoppix is "Debian", it's not Debian.
>
> > And debian upgrades like a dream (both over the net, or off newer
> > CD's)
>
> I'm glad I sleep better than you. :-)
>
> I've upgraded Debian twice over a modem connection, and both times
> PPPD has behaved *very* wrongly.  Also, on my own box, the mouse
> doesn't work except occasionally when it does for a bit, then X
> crashes and I have to reboot (the configuration is all correct, I
> have a dual-booting older Debian).  KDE's Accessibility Panel
> (kb-mouse) works, but stops after random periods of inactivity... 
> Empirically, I've seen that Debian, while I love it, doesn't
> upgrade well (tho' maybe it's the local magnetic field hehe).

Tom, mssages to you are bouncing.  Please contact me.

Anne