[conspire] quiet , and mepis 6.5

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):

> got net but don't have sound working yet , my case was x-y=$0 and its
> quiet , that 80g drive is quiet enough , the dvdram drive jerks around
> too fast but is quiet enough so i think most modern stuff is quiet
> enough .  This was a great weekend to build at Fry's but some deals
> were 1 day only.
>
> SimplyMEPIS 6.5 works great its a better k of Ubuntu .

I've pulled down SimplyMEPIS ISOs for both architectures -- and also
fetched the Debian 4.0r0 "Etch" images for i386, x86_64, and PPC (now
that Etch has become boring).  Will have those plus DSL 3.3 at this
Saturday's CABAL.

Seem like Warren Woodford didn't want to work very hard:  6.5 still has
kernel 2.6.15, KDE 3.5.3, and so on.  Not even worth the download in my
opinion, if you already have 6.0.  I mean, what's the point?  It's
basically just Dapper Drake.

Meanwhil, on Debian, the track symlinks have changed on the package
mirrors.  If you use an ftp client, you can see this directly, e.g., on
ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/dists/ in Trondheim:

Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
Logged in to ftp.no.debian.org.
Current remote directory is /linux/debian/dists.
ncftp /linux/debian/dists > ls -al
drwxrwsr-x  10 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  8 11:34 .
drwxrwsr-x   8 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:20 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp        5 Apr  7 22:15 Debian3.1r6 -> sarge
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp        4 Apr  8 14:21 Debian4.0r0 -> etch
-rw-rw-r--   1 kristofg linuxftp      449 Apr  8 11:35 README
drwxr-sr-x   5 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  8 10:42 etch
drwxrwsr-x   5 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:08 etch-m68k
drwxr-sr-x   5 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:07 etch-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x   5 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:09 experimental
drwxrwsr-x  14 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:08 lenny
drwxrwsr-x   5 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:08 lenny-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp        5 Apr  8 14:21 oldstable -> sarge
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp       21 Apr  8 14:21 proposed-updates -> etch-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x   5 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  8 11:32 sarge
drwxrwsr-x  18 kristofg linuxftp     4096 Apr  9 08:09 sid
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp        4 Apr  8 14:21 stable -> etch
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp       21 Apr  8 14:21 stable-proposed-updates -> etch-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp        5 Apr  8 14:21 testing -> lenny
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp       22 Apr  8 14:21 testing-proposed-updates -> lenny-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kristofg linuxftp        3 Dec 10  2004 unstable -> sid
ncftp /linux/debian/dists >


Essentially, 3.1 "sarge" has been put out to pasture, 4.0 "etch" has
taken its place as the stable track, new branch "lenny" inherits the
testing track symlink from "etch", and bleeding edge branch "sid" as
always keeps the unstable track symlink.

The release-related freeze got lifted, so a ton of new packages no doubt
landed into "lenny" from "sid".  Nervous people interested in
testing/unstable should probably filter them through Sidux, for the next
month or so.

(People who've been operating Debian sarge=stable systems should ride
the "stable" symlink smoothly onto etch=stable -- and not fool around
with their /etc/apt/sources.list entries.  Leave the update-tracking
system alone.  Let it do its job.)