[GRLUG] distros, DE's, etc.

Ben Rousch brousch at orthicomp.com
Wed May 17 16:26:54 EDT 2006


So who is this JTR character anyways?

On Wed, May 17, 2006 4:23 pm, Collin wrote:
> He can... he can... buy me a pony... and a puppy dog... and give me
> personalized service and pay me for it, and wash my car, and wax it too.
> Then I'll switch to Debian. ;-)
>
> Bob Kline wrote:
>> JTR offered to do this at the last formal
>> get together of the GRLUG.  Only he and
>> two others showed up from what I remembered.
>> He also offered to help others set up Debian
>> on their machines at most of the install get
>> togethers in the past.  I don't know how
>> many takers he got,  but the opportunity was
>> certainly there to get help form someone
>> was bullish on Debian,  and more than willing
>> to help. All to ask,  what more can he do to
>> get people on board?  Make house calls?
>>
>>     -Bob
>>
>>
>> On 5/17/06, *zdennis* <zdennis at mktec.com <mailto:zdennis at mktec.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
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>>     Ben Rousch wrote:
>>     > Ubuntu has a server install on the regular CDs that is very
>>     stripped down
>>     > (no X, no servers). It is easy to enable the Universe and
>>     Multiverse repos
>>     > and build your system from barely-above-ground up at the bash
>>     prompt.
>>     >
>>     > To use it, just start with a regular Breezy CD and type 'server'
>>     at the
>>     > install prompt.
>>
>>     I have seen less dependency hell with Ubuntu/Kubntu
>>     universe/multiverse then with Debian's unstable/testing. And
>>     although you can
>>     always figure out how-to fix the dependency hell, sometimes it is
>>     annoying to spend hours doing so. There is a solution to
>>     this.... john-thomas richards. And with that, JTR needs to speak
>>     at a GRLUG meeting or luncheon or whatever on debian, so I can
>>     move to the next level of wannabe-uber-debian-l33t-hax0r.
>>
>>     Zach
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