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I think Gentoo, BSD and Slackware are possible alternatives to Debian. As far a home server (apache, gitolite, tor, i2p) is concerned, i think that: Gentoo is too wild and BSD lacks the comfort. Is Slackware suitable as a (very easy) server? Kinda: you set it up once, without geting headaches, and t...

We had our problems, in the past, but it has been a pleasure to get to know you. You know really much (you probably realize it yourself), but, first of all, i never heard a bad word from you (I am pretty sure that it isn't that hard to get angry when having to deal with my "moods" ... ). N...

twoflowers wrote:That was to be expected. Well, good bye Debian

Pretty much that.

having said that i understand crap of your script and just as much about debugging: 1) bash seems to use -x for debugging, perhaps -v too. for ksh you will have to search the web or manpage (seems like it is at least similar) 2) you are probably looking for the command "time" to check the ...

Looks like a good approach to me. On another note: Don't trust random people in a random forum. Might well be that i (in this case i) simply can't see the - best or better - solution. I am pretty sure of what i wrote, but that doesn't make it more valid. And many rant about things they don't really ...

similar to a Windows System Restore. You can't do that. Well: you can. It is called backup. But if you had one you would know about it and there was no need to ask here. When reinstalling you can keep the old /home, as long it is on a different partition. There are several, at minimum 2, ways to do...

install debian on a different box or in Virtualbox or qemu or such. copy the broken etc packages from there to the broken box. (you might want to make a list of all packages installed, on the broken box, and install them on the new box, then simply replace all of etc. I guess). in general i agree wi...

linuxuser423 wrote: Ill be posting logs to pastebin or something tonight

You seem to have missed that we are asking you to do us a favor:

dasein wrote:I still think it's all about pr0n

You can post the logs in addition, but i am mainly interested in the pr0n link.

Still no feedback bout all the info you got regarding the original question .... by several people. I assume nothing of that works. This is not "your" thread. It is a thread in a public forum, where all kind of people are looking for help or info. You made the OP, with a statement not many...

thanks saulgoode for the elaborate answer. In the end it looks as if our specs would be the same though .... :-) And even the expactations (i still wouldn't call a 1 Gig low specs, but that is really just about giving a name) I ain't got problems with the cost. Simply looks as if my machines would d...

Wondering what they did 5 years ago. Not to speak of 10. Or back in the days when Eric Raymond considered 64 MB to be "plenty of, where you barely need swap". Perhaps people didn't work ... ? To work one sure needs round the lines of 40 tabs open in a browser. Mainly facebook, twitter and ...

Doesn't look as if he/she/it would be interested in the answer.
Perhaps it needs time to sink (a metapackage is a metapackage, and a rose is a rose. That is not an easy one).

I already listed the problems several times. So did others on this board. So does the WWW. If you can't figure out the problem, that is really your problem. I could just as well repeat that sysv is running fine here, all the time. And of course it does. But that is neither the problem nor the questi...

So, I've been keeping away from this discussion since it has started, but I will just quickly give my impressions of a newly installed Debian Jessie system with systemd, slim login manager, openbox and a few programmes and scripts. This is a notebook used as an all-around-desktop machine. I usually...

More short:
You, saulgoode, think too that 2 Gigs is not enough?
Even though 5+ years ago 512 was pretty common and most were very happy with it.
(We already had modern browsers and modern DE's back then).

Well: I got machines with more ram too. Thing is: none of them uses more than +/- 300 (with claws, firefox, pidgin and tilda running). Most of that being used by firefox, of course. Not that sure what would be the point to get more ram .... so that more sits idle? Linux will use any available spare...

Oh ya, and I went to turn on my second laptop today, the one which had windows installed on it. Nothing, absolutely nothing. The power light doesn't even come on when it is plugged in. It is as dead as could be. It doesn't even try to start A virus which can infect a computer not being turned on du...

Tell me as soon you find an OS which can run with 512 MB RAM, or less. ? Machines in use here with 512 ram and single-core cpu, running squeeze, wheezy, jessie, sid with xfce4, TDE, openbox. Well: I got machines with more ram too. Thing is: none of them uses more than +/- 300 (with claws, firefox, ...

I take any bet we will hear of him never again, after this thread....
First post, such a content ... dunno: am i the only one who considers it weird ?
(obviously i am not, just look previous posts).

I imply that it doesn't matter if you are male or female.
And first of all that you could tell me anything, i can't check it. Just like i could tell you anything, and you couldn't check it. And so on.

Post what the editors are.
I asked 3 or 4 times now.