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Debian 3 is out

Anyone suggest a fast site for Debian 3.0, I'm switching over from Slack 8.1 and want to try out Woody release.

Thanks! 🙂
 

2 main diffs between kernel 2.2 & 2.4: 2.4 let you have a choice of iptables or ipchains while 2.2 use ipchains only & the popular belive that 2.4 virtual memory handling is much more stable than 2.2 under heavy load which is critical for database. But, there are so much changes in 2.4 that it may causes problem when update Linux with it, that why a few distributions such as Debian still stay with the proven 2.2 untill the bugs are work out of 2.4
 
alright... call me a dummy.
i've a newb to linux.

i installed everything... woody (debian 3)
and at the end...
i ended up with a unix shell login.

how do i get into KDE from here?
 
Well, when I try something new, I usually start at the edge and work in, I didn't want to make replacing the kernel my first apt-get.. or compile as the case may be... don't know yet.. And on a not completely familiar archetecture yet... I mean I can install and tweak solaris six ways from sunday on a sparc, but linux is not what they were (originally) made for.

Just my POV... I don't overhaul the engine first thing when I buy a car, I usually tweak the stereo and other such "non-essentials"
 
I've got about 6800 files left before my Woody DVD image is complete (9341 or so for the total). Once I have a full image, updating it should be much easier, thanks to jigdo. Too bad it won't fit on any FAT32 drive, as the image is 300MB over the limit (4GB).

-SUO
 
Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
I've got about 6800 files left before my Woody DVD image is complete (9341 or so for the total). Once I have a full image, updating it should be much easier, thanks to jigdo. Too bad it won't fit on any FAT32 drive, as the image is 300MB over the limit (4GB).

-SUO
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FAT 16 had this limit...FAT32 does not. There can be partitions over 4GB in FAT32
 
it's about damn time... maybe they'll have a 2.4 kernel out by 2006
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eh?
$apt-cache search kernel-image
kernel-image-2.2.20-generic - Linux kernel binary image for Alpha (generic).
kernel-image-2.2.20-jensen - Linux kernel binary image for Alpha (Jensen/SRM systems)
kernel-image-2.2.20-nautilus - Linux kernel binary image for Alpha (UP1000 "Nautilus" systems)
kernel-image-2.2.20-smp - Linux kernel binary image for Alpha (generic).
kernel-image-2.4.18-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on Alpha.
kernel-image-2.4.18-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on Alpha SMP.
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They're there, just not installed by default.
 
Originally posted by: mcveigh
it's about damn time... maybe they'll have a 2.4 kernel out by 2006
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I've been running the 2.4.18 kernel on my Debian machine for quite some time now. I chose to compile and install it myself but it's not like it didn't exist... the packages were all there.

Now, it might be 2006 before they'll have official KDE 3 packages 😉
 
Now, it might be 2006 before they'll have official KDE 3 packages
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There are packages already, they're just not in sid or sarge (new testing) yet because woody and sid were essentially frozen to try to speed up the bug fixing and get the release out instead of letting people focus on getting new things like KDE3 packaged.

Since woody is released it will probably be less than a week for KDE3 to make it into sid, then as long as it works without any major bugs it'll flow into sarge.
 
Poor choice of words on my part! The woody DVD ISO is gonna be about 4.3GB, which is 300MB more than what FAT32 can handle for a file size. I'm gonna try to compress it, because I use FAT32 on my downloads partition, as it is the most readable filesystem for all the OSes I run.

Anyhoo, I only need 221 more files to complete the image (most are of the non-US variety). Hopefully, I can snag the rest when I get home.

BTW, I have had woody running on my system for a month or so now. 2.4.18-smp, nVidia 2960 (whatever the latest is) with TwinView activated for two CRTs, KDE 3.0.2, and Gnome 2.0 (as of this weekend). Not that much out of date. 🙂

-SUO
 
There are packages already, they're just not in sid or sarge (new testing) yet because woody and sid were essentially frozen to try to speed up the bug fixing and get the release out instead of letting people focus on getting new things like KDE3 packaged.
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Are these the KDE 3 packages you are referring to?

Another noobish question - so if you were running 'woody' while 'potato' was stable, are you now automatically running 'sarge'? I'd guess so since all the apt sources point to 'testing', and 'testing' is now or will soon be 'sarge', but if anyone can confirm that I'd appreciate it.
 
Well, I got the DVD image using the jigdo files from cdimage.debian.org (or whatever), and it weighs in at a cool 3.98GB. So, I get to store it on a FAT32 volume for a while. 🙂

Now, to install from the bad boy without having to burn it, ... 🙂

-SUO
 
I meant these packages.

Another noobish question - so if you were running 'woody' while 'potato' was stable, are you now automatically running 'sarge'? I'd guess so since all the apt sources point to 'testing', and 'testing' is now or will soon be 'sarge', but if anyone can confirm that I'd appreciate it.
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Depends. If you used the terms stable, unstable and testing in your apt sources.list, then yes you'd now be using sarge. If you (like I) used 'woody' you'd continue to use woody.

If you look at the Debian ftp sites in the dists folder there's directories for the codenames and then stable, testing and unstable are just symlinks to the currently labled distributions. Once they declared woody stable they just redid the symlinks.
 
Thanks for the answers. Your KDE 3 link is the first one in the list of mirrors that my link linked to. And my apt sources point to 'testing' so I guess I'm using 'sarge' now.
 
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