Subj : Debian termcap
To   : Al
From : Frank Reid
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 03:26 pm

  Re: Debian termcap
  By: Al to Frank Reid on Sun Sep 25 2005 10:58:00

 > It must be Ubuntu that lacks terminfo support. My /lib/terminfo and
 > /usr/share/terminfo are both full. I use the Ubuntu live cd at
 > times, and it's a nice desktop but seems to lack all the geek stuff.

And you don't have termcap-compat in your dpkg query, huh?  This is the first
deb-based distro I've played with.  I have to admit that Ubuntu is quite an
impressive workstation OS.  I'm a dyed-in-the-wool FreeBSD server guy, but I
had the extra box lying around and a day to kill.  Now I'm trying to geekify
that as a server OS to see what it can do.  So far, I haven't found anything
that I couldn't get installed from either the Ubuntu "core" or "restricted"
package trees or their links to other "universe" packages within the same
Synaptic package manager.  Plus, I've even already built my own .deb package
for mplayer along with all the codecs for Windows, divx, etc. (well, with help
from the web, of course!)  Very cool OS that could have potential for the
desktop moreso than others I've seen, with Mandrake being closest until now.

Anyway, that's probably better for the Unix sub.  :)

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