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Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-27-05 10:46 PM
Is it really safe to get a Debian-based distro for my needs?
See I like Debian and chances are that I will use it, but my question
is, for someone who really needs a huge package selection and needs
compilers and stuff like that, is it really safe to use stuff like
Ubuntu? I mean I want a server OS which can really and easily handle
stuff and almost always has the package I need.
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-27-05 10:46 PM
On alt.os.linux.debian, in <4310C7D7.4050909@atlanticbb.net>, "Adam" wrote:
<body not downloaded>
From your headers:
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="------------040302070608090305030708"
/quote
Only in-line plain-text is acceptable on text groups.
Content-Type: text/plain; us-ascii
Please go to http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
and choose a unique alias. Common first names are ususally
used by trolls to hide their posting history by making it
indistinquishable from all the other "Mike" "Steve" "Adam", etc.
Don't include your email address as your alias.
Then stick with it.
The Usenet is infested with trolls, and you don't want to
be mistaken for one.
Like now: I won't even be downloading the body of your post.
AC
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-27-05 10:46 PM
> Is it really safe to get a Debian-based distro for my needs?
Safe as houses. What risks are you concerned about?
> See I like Debian and chances are that I will use it, but my question is,
> for someone who really needs a huge package selection...
Debian includes more than 14,000 packages.
> ...is it really safe to use stuff like Ubuntu?
As far as I know all Debian packages can be installed on Ubuntu.
> I mean I want a server OS which can really and easily handle stuff and
> almost always has the package I need.
Then you want Debian Stable.
--
John Hasler
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-28-05 10:46 PM
Alan Connor wrote:
> On alt.os.linux.debian, in <4310C7D7.4050909@atlanticbb.net>, "Adam" wrote
:
> <body not downloaded>
>
> From your headers:
>
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="------------040302070608090305030708"
>
> /quote
>
> Only in-line plain-text is acceptable on text groups.
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; us-ascii
>
> Please go to http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
>
> and choose a unique alias. Common first names are ususally
> used by trolls to hide their posting history by making it
> indistinquishable from all the other "Mike" "Steve" "Adam", etc.
>
> Don't include your email address as your alias.
>
> Then stick with it.
>
> The Usenet is infested with trolls, and you don't want to
> be mistaken for one.
>
> Like now: I won't even be downloading the body of your post.
>
> AC
>
>
Is it fixed at all yet? I tried following the steps for Mozilla Thunderbird.
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-28-05 10:46 PM
Adam McCarthy wrote:
> Alan Connor wrote:
>
> Is it fixed at all yet? I tried following the steps for Mozilla
> Thunderbird.
I just fixed it, it was a simple error.
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-28-05 10:46 PM
On alt.os.linux.debian, in <43120FD4.6050109@privacy.net>, "Adam McCarthy" wrote:
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> Adam McCarthy wrote:
> I just fixed it, it was a simple error.
Good work, Adam. Another suggestion: For the email address
in your From: header, use .invalid at the end. This way,
when the spambots pick it up and send spam to the address
the mail servers will just dump it.
If you want to include a real contact address, put it in a sig
(limit 4 lines, including blank lines, after a line with the sig
delimiter "-- " alone on it) and munge it (make it something a
spambot won't recognize as an email address).
Or include a link in your sig to a contact page.
See my sig here for an example.
-----------
Now. You were wondering about whether to get Debian or
Debian-based? I run a straight Debian here, much customized.
I don't really know what you mean by the question.
It depends on what you want to do. Does it have the apps you
want? Then use it. Generally, "Debian-based" just means that
it uses the Debian install program and the Apt-get package
manager. That's generally the only things that really seperate
the distros, besides the default packages they choose to include.
With very few exceptions, all Linux apps will run on all distros.
AC
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alanconnor AT
earthlink DOT net. Use your real return
address or I'll never know you even tried
to mail me. http://tinyurl.com/2t5kp
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-28-05 10:46 PM
Alan Connor wrote:
> On alt.os.linux.debian, in <43120FD4.6050109@privacy.net>, "Adam McCarthy"
wrote:
>
>
>
> Good work, Adam. Another suggestion: For the email address
> in your From: header, use .invalid at the end. This way,
> when the spambots pick it up and send spam to the address
> the mail servers will just dump it.
>
> If you want to include a real contact address, put it in a sig
> (limit 4 lines, including blank lines, after a line with the sig
> delimiter "-- " alone on it) and munge it (make it something a
> spambot won't recognize as an email address).
>
> Or include a link in your sig to a contact page.
>
> See my sig here for an example.
>
> -----------
>
> Now. You were wondering about whether to get Debian or
> Debian-based? I run a straight Debian here, much customized.
>
> I don't really know what you mean by the question.
>
> It depends on what you want to do. Does it have the apps you
> want? Then use it. Generally, "Debian-based" just means that
> it uses the Debian install program and the Apt-get package
> manager. That's generally the only things that really seperate
> the distros, besides the default packages they choose to include.
>
> With very few exceptions, all Linux apps will run on all distros.
>
> AC
>
Thank you so much. Believe it or not, I am not a newbie to Usenet as
much as I just don't yet have down all the good security steps but I am
really getting there and am already a computer geek. USENET is a very
nice system for getting tons of information. ;).
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Re: Better to get Debian or Debian-Based? |
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08-29-05 01:45 AM
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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:30:05 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.243.2.89
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2005 16:30:05 PDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:30:05 PDT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com alt.os.linux.debian:1957
On alt.os.linux.debian, in
<43123D71.2020808@privacy.net.invalid>, "Adam McCarthy" wrote:
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> Thank you so much. Believe it or not, I am not a newbie to
> Usenet as much as I just don't yet have down all the good
> security steps but I am really getting there and am already a
> computer geek.
> USENET is a very nice system for getting tons of
> information. ;).
Sure is. One thing I've noticed is that the Usenet is where
you find the useful links that never show up on the major
search engines.
See ya around, Adam,
AC
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