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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

James Miller wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Day Brown wrote:
> 
> > > > Has anyone tried Pathetic Writer?
> > >
> > > I have.  Twice.  Earlier this year (on BL2) and a couple of
> > > years ago (an older version on BL1).  AbiWord is far superior.
> > But only available as an .rpm
> > I think I need .deb
> 
> Yer system uses .deb's?  Why in the heck aren't you using apt-get to get
> the stuff you need, then?  It would be slow over dialup, but it's the best
> package management system I've come across.
Cause the only time I logged into debian.org or whatever it was, the
servers were down.
I understand this, being a volunteer organization without sufficient
funding....
And getting back just now from http://www.debian.org -I see the message
that the server is down. I dunno if I am just lucky, or they've been out
for a while now.