How long are people going to keep regurgitating this misinformation.
Well, as long as it's true! I received a.doc file the other day (about 6 weeks ago). I opened it in StarOffice 5.2 (Debian stable) and it was screwed. There were some arrows in this document (it was some sort of diagram) which pointed in almost every direction, just not were they should. Alright, I booted Windows and opened the document in Word 97. One could argue wether it was less screwed than in SO, but nonetheless it was as unreadable. I put the document on my Laptop (Debian testing, with OO 1.x at that time) and it opened just fine.
I don't know which version of Word was used to create it (vim told me it was Microsoft Word 10.0), but I definitely wasn't able to use it with Word 97. (Oh and yes: one can draw such arrows with Word 97, it's no new feature)
SECURITY NOTE: it's impossible to make a submission completely anonymous, since Internet servers tend to add headers and log messages along the way. Our receiver program at debian throws away this information as soon as possible so no one will see it, but if you're really paranoid you might not want to participate.
The popularity-contest package comes with a cron task to send the information out to us each week. You can change where the submissions go by editing/etc/popularity-contest.conf. Normally, you will send the results to:
survey@popcon.debian.org
The result of the survey is available at
http://popcon.debian.org/
You can find some sample analysis scripts in/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest as part of this package.
So, just configure the cronjob to CC you and you know *exactly* what's being sent.
However, once the app is installed, it is much faster than the generic i386 cruft you get from normal distributions
Hmm, I don't think so:
Debian News mentions a Debian package being faster thanks to O2 instead of O3. Now this has nothing to do with Gentoo as a distro, but are you aware of the best settings for every package you install?
Also, quite a lot of distributions compile for >= 586
Slashdot Mirror
Well, http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003 -December/022821.html is just one of the usual rants of mplayer against Debian. If you go further in this thread, you will find
http://mhttp//mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-e ng/2003-December/022879.htmlplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ mplayer-dev-eng/2003-December/022877.html> and http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003 -December/022879.html, which show that the admin didn't have a clue how his server was compromised (it must be the kernel and/or Debian, because he is a perfect admin, or what?).
How long are people going to keep regurgitating this misinformation.
.doc file the other day (about 6 weeks ago). I opened it in StarOffice 5.2 (Debian stable) and it was screwed. There were some arrows in this document (it was some sort of diagram) which pointed in almost every direction, just not were they should.
Well, as long as it's true!
I received a
Alright, I booted Windows and opened the document in Word 97. One could argue wether it was less screwed than in SO, but nonetheless it was as unreadable.
I put the document on my Laptop (Debian testing, with OO 1.x at that time) and it opened just fine.
I don't know which version of Word was used to create it (vim told me it was Microsoft Word 10.0), but I definitely wasn't able to use it with Word 97.
(Oh and yes: one can draw such arrows with Word 97, it's no new feature)
From /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/README.gz:
/etc/popularity-contest.conf. Normally, you will send the results to:
/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest as part of this package.
SECURITY NOTE: it's impossible to make a submission completely anonymous, since Internet servers tend to add headers and log messages along the way.
Our receiver program at debian throws away this information as soon as possible so no one will see it, but if you're really paranoid you might not want to participate.
The popularity-contest package comes with a cron task to send the information out to us each week. You can change where the submissions go by editing
survey@popcon.debian.org
The result of the survey is available at
http://popcon.debian.org/
You can find some sample analysis scripts in
So, just configure the cronjob to CC you and you know *exactly* what's being sent.
However, once the app is installed, it is much faster than the generic i386 cruft you get from normal distributions
Hmm, I don't think so: Debian News mentions a Debian package being faster thanks to O2 instead of O3. Now this has nothing to do with Gentoo as a distro, but are you aware of the best settings for every package you install?
Also, quite a lot of distributions compile for >= 586