From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 4772 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2000 04:39:43 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2000 04:39:43 -0000 Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07230 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:39:42 -0500 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA15281; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:35:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAqWay0D; Wed Jan 26 21:34:56 2000 Received: from localhost (fairall@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21560; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:39:33 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: usr09.primenet.com: fairall owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:39:32 -0500 (EST) From: Leslie Fairall To: "James R. Van Zandt" cc: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Instructions for installing Slackware In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: If this is off-topic, please respond to me privately. However, I am a newbie and would like to know some of the advantages of the different distributions of linux. Is Debian all text-based, or is that a myth? Thanks. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Leslie - > > Debian distributes most everything - over 4000 packages in all. Pine > is a special case because its license forbids the distribution of > "derivative works", which means Debian cannot distribute the usual > binary package. However, Debian does distribute the pine396-src and > pine396-diffs packages, which contain the unmodified sources and the > changes to make a Debian package. You can then compile and install it > yourself. > > - Jim Van Zandt > > > >Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:24:21 -0500 (EST) > >From: Leslie Fairall > >cc: blinux-list@redhat.com, recipient.list.not.shown:;@ > >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >Resent-From: blinux-list@redhat.com > >Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com > > > >I have a unix shell. Can I edit the makefile there? that would be > >easier. This makefile would be for brltty, right? > > > > > >I'm only trying slackware because it is all I have for right now. I have > >heard that Debian has no graphics at all, so I'd love to try it. However, > >I have also heard that pine under Debian isn't supported. I don't know how > >true that is, though. > ***** ************************************************** "Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it makes friends with."