* Totally lost and confused @ Chris Schulte ` Christy Schulte ` Totally lost and confused Kenny Hitt 0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Chris Schulte @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi all, I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more trafic on this list I'll post it here as well. I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now hearing that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go. Just based on the discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that debian is probably better for a new user. So I am on the debian site, and I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally lost and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm even in the right directory on the ftp site. Please help? Tnx in advance, Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Totally lost and confused Totally lost and confused Chris Schulte @ ` Christy Schulte ` Janina Sajka ` (2 more replies) ` Totally lost and confused Kenny Hitt 1 sibling, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Christy Schulte @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Ok, I haven't researched this in great detail, but my understanding is this. Debian, unlike a lot of other Linux distributions, can be added to and worked on by many different people, it's not just a certain closed group. Therefore, changes are constantly being made and it's constantly in testing mode. Therefore, there are two versions of debian. The "stable" version, currently 2.2 I believe, is the one that is only updated when there are major changes to put in. It has been tested and run by a lot of people and should run with minimal problems. The unstable version, which could be the "potato" one but not sure, is the under development one, like a beta. Any new submissions are put into that one first, so it's constantly being changed and updated. How exactly these updates are done and by whom I'm not sure, but we went with the stable version our our machines. You can get more info on this at www.debian.org. Also once it's installed, check out the apt-get and apt-cache commands, really cool. On another topic. Has anyone been successful using ddclient with debian? If so, would you mind writing me privately? I got the thing installed, but it's not updating the ip address an the docs aren't all that helpful. Then again it's been years since I've seriously worked with this stuff. Thanks. Christy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Schulte" <cjschulte@home.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:00 PM Subject: Totally lost and confused > Hi all, > I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more > trafic on this list I'll post it here as well. > > I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now hearing > that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go. Just based on the > discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that > debian is probably better for a new user. So I am on the debian site, and > I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally lost > and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm even > in the right directory on the ftp site. Please help? > Tnx in advance, > Chris > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Totally lost and confused ` Christy Schulte @ ` Janina Sajka ` Janina Sajka ` Kenny Hitt 2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Christy Schulte wrote: > Ok, I haven't researched this in great detail, but my understanding is this. > > Debian, unlike a lot of other Linux distributions, can be added to and > worked on by many different people, it's not just a certain closed group. > Therefore, changes are constantly being made and it's constantly in testing > mode. Therefore, there are two versions of debian. The "stable" version, > currently 2.2 I believe, is the one that is only updated when there are > major changes to put in. It has been tested and run by a lot of people and > should run with minimal problems. The unstable version, which could be the > "potato" one but not sure, is the under development one, like a beta. Any > new submissions are put into that one first, so it's constantly being > changed and updated. > > How exactly these updates are done and by whom I'm not sure, but we went > with the stable version our our machines. You can get more info on this at > www.debian.org. Also once it's installed, check out the apt-get and > apt-cache commands, really cool. > > On another topic. Has anyone been successful using ddclient with debian? If > so, would you mind writing me privately? I got the thing installed, but it's > not updating the ip address an the docs aren't all that helpful. Then again > it's been years since I've seriously worked with this stuff. > > Thanks. > Christy > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Schulte" <cjschulte@home.com> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:00 PM > Subject: Totally lost and confused > > > > Hi all, > > I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more > > trafic on this list I'll post it here as well. > > > > I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now > hearing > > that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go. Just based on > the > > discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that > > debian is probably better for a new user. So I am on the debian site, and > > I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally > lost > > and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm > even > > in the right directory on the ftp site. Please help? > > Tnx in advance, > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Totally lost and confused ` Christy Schulte ` Janina Sajka @ ` Janina Sajka ` Kenny Hitt 2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Oops, didn't mean to resend this back to the list. Sorry, folks. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Totally lost and confused ` Christy Schulte ` Janina Sajka ` Janina Sajka @ ` Kenny Hitt ` ddclient (was: Re: Totally lost and confused) Christy Schulte 2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Kenny Hitt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Potato is the stable version. I had better luck using dhcpcd with home.com. I never could get dhcp-client to work. Your host name is the one they give you when you sign up for there service. I left all other values at there default. Kenny On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:40:32AM -0400, Christy Schulte wrote: > Ok, I haven't researched this in great detail, but my understanding is this. > > Debian, unlike a lot of other Linux distributions, can be added to and > worked on by many different people, it's not just a certain closed group. > Therefore, changes are constantly being made and it's constantly in testing > mode. Therefore, there are two versions of debian. The "stable" version, > currently 2.2 I believe, is the one that is only updated when there are > major changes to put in. It has been tested and run by a lot of people and > should run with minimal problems. The unstable version, which could be the > "potato" one but not sure, is the under development one, like a beta. Any > new submissions are put into that one first, so it's constantly being > changed and updated. > > How exactly these updates are done and by whom I'm not sure, but we went > with the stable version our our machines. You can get more info on this at > www.debian.org. Also once it's installed, check out the apt-get and > apt-cache commands, really cool. > > On another topic. Has anyone been successful using ddclient with debian? If > so, would you mind writing me privately? I got the thing installed, but it's > not updating the ip address an the docs aren't all that helpful. Then again > it's been years since I've seriously worked with this stuff. > > Thanks. > Christy > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Schulte" <cjschulte@home.com> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:00 PM > Subject: Totally lost and confused > > > > Hi all, > > I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more > > trafic on this list I'll post it here as well. > > > > I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now > hearing > > that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go. Just based on > the > > discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that > > debian is probably better for a new user. So I am on the debian site, and > > I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally > lost > > and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm > even > > in the right directory on the ftp site. Please help? > > Tnx in advance, > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* ddclient (was: Re: Totally lost and confused) ` Kenny Hitt @ ` Christy Schulte 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Christy Schulte @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup The linux machine has an IP address, no problem there. What I'm trying to do is use dyndns.org to assign a static name to my dynamic IP address. You can update the ip via their website and it works when i do that, but I can't get ddclient, which is suppoed to update the ip automatically, to do it. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kennyhitt@yahoo.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Totally lost and confused > Potato is the stable version. > > I had better luck using dhcpcd with home.com. I never could get > dhcp-client to work. Your host name is the one they give you when > you sign up for there service. I left all other values at there > default. > > Kenny > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:40:32AM -0400, Christy Schulte wrote: > > Ok, I haven't researched this in great detail, but my understanding is this. > > > > Debian, unlike a lot of other Linux distributions, can be added to and > > worked on by many different people, it's not just a certain closed group. > > Therefore, changes are constantly being made and it's constantly in testing > > mode. Therefore, there are two versions of debian. The "stable" version, > > currently 2.2 I believe, is the one that is only updated when there are > > major changes to put in. It has been tested and run by a lot of people and > > should run with minimal problems. The unstable version, which could be the > > "potato" one but not sure, is the under development one, like a beta. Any > > new submissions are put into that one first, so it's constantly being > > changed and updated. > > > > How exactly these updates are done and by whom I'm not sure, but we went > > with the stable version our our machines. You can get more info on this at > > www.debian.org. Also once it's installed, check out the apt-get and > > apt-cache commands, really cool. > > > > On another topic. Has anyone been successful using ddclient with debian? If > > so, would you mind writing me privately? I got the thing installed, but it's > > not updating the ip address an the docs aren't all that helpful. Then again > > it's been years since I've seriously worked with this stuff. > > > > Thanks. > > Christy > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Schulte" <cjschulte@home.com> > > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:00 PM > > Subject: Totally lost and confused > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more > > > trafic on this list I'll post it here as well. > > > > > > I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now > > hearing > > > that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go. Just based on > > the > > > discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that > > > debian is probably better for a new user. So I am on the debian site, and > > > I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally > > lost > > > and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm > > even > > > in the right directory on the ftp site. Please help? > > > Tnx in advance, > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Totally lost and confused Totally lost and confused Chris Schulte ` Christy Schulte @ ` Kenny Hitt 1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Kenny Hitt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi, stable is the last stable version. Currently, it is potato. You probably don't need to actually go to there ftp sight. Apt will do those things for you. How are you planning to install? I'm still learning, but you can write me off list, at kennyhitt@yahoo.com or call (256) 533-0870. I installed with boot floppies and then let Debian finish from the internet. If you plan to install from CD, you should download the CD immages from the speakup sight and not from the Debian sight. As long as you make sure you install the kernel you booted from, the rest is explained best in the manual. The manual is on line at www.debian.org/doc Oopse, almost forgot, don't let the install program configure your keyboard. Kenny On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:00:58PM -0400, Chris Schulte wrote: > Hi all, > I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more > trafic on this list I'll post it here as well. > > I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now hearing > that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go. Just based on the > discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that > debian is probably better for a new user. So I am on the debian site, and > I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally lost > and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm even > in the right directory on the ftp site. Please help? > Tnx in advance, > Chris > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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