The softmodems that can be found in today's notebooks have been a mess from the very beginning. This especially holds when such a modem is to be used on Linux. Today, we have gazillions of different (and incompatible!) methods of using these gadgets, but none of them works with all softmodem flavours out there. This article describes what I have tried to bring my hp compaq nc8000 online, and how I finally succeeded.
The Debian BTS has recently learned to track versions. Bugs can be closed and "found" for certain package versions, so that it is easier now to determine whether a bug is present in a distribution or not. However, Colin still needs to write a "metric shitload of documentation", and I still fall way short of understanding how to use the feature.
\ the "fighting Zugs\^h\^h\^h\^h Murphy's law" release \ printing one summary of installation error messages on multiple packages (closes: #318856) \* typo fixes in de.po
-- Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:10:15 +0200
Nach einem Debian-Update tut es an manchen Stellen mehr, und an manchen anderen Stellen weniger weh. Ich fasse zusammen, wo ich mir bei den bisherigen Updates in den Fuß geschossen habe.
Wir haben derzeit mal wieder eine Schwachstelle in der zlib, und wieder geht die Suche nach statischen zlibs in den Archiven freier Software los. Florian Weimer hat einen automatischen Prozess zum Suchen der zlib entwickelt.
Vor einigen Wochen habe ich (<d68fl1$mm0$1@news1.tnib.de>) nach einer Debian-basierten Live-CD-Distribution gesucht. Inzwischen habe ich eine gefunden:grml-small.