Fwd: [sf-lug] Re: sf-lug Debian Sarge CD

[jim stockford]

Here's the debian book title from Geoff.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Geoff Smith <geoff at stumbleupon.com>
> Date: February 7, 2006 11:18:17 AM PST
> To: jim stockford <jim at well.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Re: sf-lug Debian Sarge CD
>
>
> name of the book is:
>
> The Debian System: Concept and Techniques
>
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:24:15 -0800
> jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Geoff Smith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> for future reference, I ended up getting Debian Sarge by buying a
>>> Debian book at border's books downtown.  It's a good book too, so 
>>> it's
>>> a pretty decent way to get debian.
>>>
>>> Geoff.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:23:02 -0800
>>> jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hey Geoff! Here's Rick's response (below).
>>>>
>>>> (I like buying CDs rather than suffer through
>>>> downloading. For most people, I'd say
>>>> listen to Rick rather than listen to crufty
>>>> old jim.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>>>>> Date: January 19, 2006 2:09:18 PM PST
>>>>> To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Re: sf-lug Debian Sarge CD
>>>>>
>>>>> Quoting jim stockford (jim at well.com):
>>>>>
>>>>>>    Anybody know a store where Geoff can walk in and
>>>>>> buy the latest Debian (Sarge)? I'd like to know, too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why not get a "netinst" CD image for the cost of a mere 125MB or so
>>>>> download -- such as Kenshi Muto's: http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/2005/11/26
>>>>>
>>>>> See also:  "Installers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/
>>>>> (page needs to be updated, now that 3.1 "sarge" is the stable 
>>>>> branch)
>>>>>
>>>>> Given Internet access for package retrieval, in the general case,
>>>>> there
>>>>> doesn't seem a whole lot of point to either buying or downloading 
>>>>> 14
>>>>> CDs
>>>>> or 2 DVDs.  You're not going to install most of that, and you'd be
>>>>> replacing a lot of it with updates from the Internet, anyway.  So,
>>>>> why
>>>>> not start with 125MB of installation media, rather than 9GB?
>>>>>
>>>>> (By the way, Geoff forgot to specify the architecture:  alpha, 
>>>>> amd64,
>>>>> arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc.
>>>>> amd64
>>>>> was unofficial as of the 3.1r0 and 3.1r1a releases; the other 11 
>>>>> are
>>>>> official.  He _probably_ means either i386 or amd64.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> sf-lug mailing list
>>>>> sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
>>>>> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Geoff Smith
>>> President, Founder
>>> http://www.stumbleupon.com/
>>> cell: 403.510.0224
>>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Geoff Smith
> President, CTO
> http://www.stumbleupon.com/
> cell: 415.652.4430
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 2792 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/attachments/20060207/c6d44f62/attachment.bin>