| Morgan Wajda-Levie on Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:22:46 -0500 (EST) |
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On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 03:48:11PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote: > A few quick questions: > > Am I correct in my understanding that potato is a snapshot of the current > state of development for the next stable release? potato is the current development version of debian. By my understanding of the term, this would not make it a snapshot, but maybe I'm wrong. potato is reasonably stable, but it does break at times. > Is there a place to get a current snapshot of potato on CD (pref. cheap)? There's a list of vendors on www.debian.org. Some of them do sell development snapshots. > Does PADS have a mailing list, and if so, how do I sign up? (I checked the > PADS page at Chris' website, but I couldn't find anything.) PADS does not have a mailing list. It's just a subgroup of PLUG. > I've become exceedingly weary of Slackware. I've installed the base system > for Debian potato, but the 'man' command is missing. I've downloaded *all* > the docs (took quite a while). Is it in there? Where can I find info about > minimal installs (of any distribution) so that I have a halfway functional > system in <400megs? (I have a 2 gig disk right now, with ~1.4 gigs FAT32, > 400 megs ext2, 64 megs swap, and no money for the time being to get a better > disk. BTW, if anyone's interested, Micro Center in St Davids has a 27 gig > IDE disk for ~$240, but it only spins at 5400 rpm.) Note that I have a 56K > winmodem, so apt-get isn't possible for me (yet). (I'll get a real modem or > possibly cable once I have extra cash.) Get the package 'man-db'. > An observation: The next meeting, on December 1st, is the same night that > UPN is running an hour-long Star Trek special (33 years of Star Trek or > something like that). Hope we don't have the problem PADS did in May when > the new Star Wars movie opened. :) > > Bill -- Morgan Wajda-Levie http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key encrypted mail preferred Attachment:
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