Dual-Linux boot

[Ben Pfaff]

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:17:19PM -0400:
> > I'm not sure that this extreme of an approach is necessary,
> > especially with the new version of apt (the one in
> > testing/unstable that has "super cow powers").  With this version
> > you can install selected packages from unstable even if you're
> > running stable or testing.
> 
> "super cow powers"???  

blp:~(0)$ apt-get moo
         (__) 
         (oo) 
   /------\/ 
  / |    ||   
 *  /\---/\ 
    ~~   ~~   
...."Have you mooed today?"...
blp:~(0)$ 

> Speaking of apt, have any better frontends besides dselect appeared
> recently?  Or has dselect gotten any better?  I haven't been able
> to update my Debian install in a while since I don't have a network
> connection at home, and I haven't been following Debian progress
> either.

I don't know; I never use any apt frontends.  I use dselect for
the initial system install and that's it

> I just had that problem on my FreeBSD box regarding Mozilla and
> Galeon, which is I think why I brought it up.  I can't get Galeon
> to run right now because Mozilla 0.9 is broken, but I can't get
> Mozilla CVS to compile to upgrade it, and I can't go back to an
> older version of the Galeon source.

You can't just install older libraries or whatever?
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