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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Day Brown wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Some of their servers were recently compromised.  Several of them are
offline while they undergo testing and cleaning.  Still, I've been able to
access their main site (not been able to get to some documentation
though).  The apt mirrors I use seem to be functioning normally though -
that's where you'd get your .deb's or whence you'd direct apt-get.

James