Linux-Misc Digest #256, Volume #27 Wed, 28 Feb 01 20:13:01 EST
Contents:
Linux Counter: 170412 registered Linux users ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ppp error ("percy")
Re: Pentium 4 support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lpr: print file too big - How to correct? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: c-pen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: red-carpet for redhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ibcs broken in 2.4? ("John G. Sandell")
Re: Web page publishing (Robert Heller)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Counter: 170412 registered Linux users
Date: 1 Mar 2001 01:00:04 GMT
This is the monthly report from the Linux Usage Counter.
It is posted on the 1st of every month on the newsgroup
comp.os.linux.misc, and on the Linux Counter "announce" list.
Registration and information is available via the World
Wide Web; connect to URL http://counter.li.org/
This is the preferred interface to the counter.
NOTE: You can UPDATE your record in the counter if you have
your registration key, which was sent to you when you registered.
EMAIL:
To enter your registration into the statistics, send an E-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], with the SUBJECT line containing the word "Linux",
such as:
I use Linux at home
I use Linux at work
I use Linux at school
Any questions should be adressed to the maintainer of the counter,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good luck!
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This is the Linux Counter summary as of Thu Mar 1 00:52:01 2001
There are 170412 persons registerd.
3023 users have been registered by friends.
There are 92503 machines registered.
I guesstimate that between 0.2% and 5% of all Linux users have
registered with the Linux Counter.
So the total number of Linux users is probably between
3,408,240 and 85,206,000 people.
WHERE LINUX USERS LIVE
The table is sorted by number of Linux users divided by population
No Country Pers Fri Mach P/Mpop Mpop
======================================================================
1 IS Iceland 263 4 125 973.0 0.3
2 FO Faroe Islands 39 0 6 889.3 0.0
3 NO Norway 3517 49 1664 802.3 4.4
4 FI Finland 3729 55 2019 730.4 5.1
5 DK Denmark 3436 17 1426 654.5 5.2
6 SE Sweden 5368 60 2764 603.1 8.9
7 AQ Antarctica 2 0 0 486.0 0.0
8 NF Norfolk Island 1 0 0 452.7 0.0
9 EE Estonia 567 16 390 388.5 1.5
10 SI Slovenia 723 8 203 370.5 2.0
11 NL Netherlands 4403 51 2475 282.8 15.6
12 GI Gibraltar 8 1 11 278.1 0.0
13 AT Austria 1932 31 1166 240.8 8.0
14 CA Canada 6858 83 3852 238.0 28.8
15 LU Luxembourg 97 0 74 233.2 0.4
16 MC Monaco 7 1 5 220.7 0.0
17 IE Ireland 780 5 320 218.7 3.6
18 AU Australia 3646 50 2240 199.7 18.3
19 NZ New Zealand 689 3 433 194.2 3.5
20 HU Hungary 1935 48 1100 193.5 10.0
21 CY Cyprus 142 0 18 190.7 0.7
22 CH Switzerland 1358 16 875 188.4 7.2
23 US USA 48900 832 26950 183.5 266.5
24 BE Belgium 1806 525 975 177.6 10.2
25 DE Germany 11589 187 6629 138.7 83.5
26 GL Greenland 8 0 6 137.4 0.1
27 SG Singapore 449 7 183 132.2 3.4
28 PT Portugal 1273 9 407 129.0 9.9
29 LI Liechtenstein 4 0 4 128.5 0.0
30 KR Korea (South) 5540 19 551 121.8 45.5
31 ES Spain 4760 32 1447 121.5 39.2
32 FR France 7070 111 2992 121.2 58.3
33 PL Poland 4513 55 1858 116.8 38.6
34 KY Cayman Islands 4 0 3 115.5 0.0
35 GB Great Britain 6640 109 3850 113.5 58.5
36 AD Andorra 8 0 7 109.9 0.1
37 IL Israel 590 13 300 108.8 5.4
38 CZ Czech Republic 844 21 471 81.8 10.3
39 BG Bulgaria 659 6 253 76.5 8.6
40 VG Virgin Islands (British) 1 0 0 75.8 0.0
41 CR Costa Rica 256 0 98 73.9 3.5
42 LT Lithuania 253 3 120 69.4 3.6
43 UY Uruguay 215 0 61 66.4 3.2
44 GR Greece 660 13 267 62.6 10.5
45 HR Croatia 305 6 96 60.9 5.0
46 IT Italy 3469 64 1606 60.4 57.5
47 PW Palau 1 0 0 59.0 0.0
48 NC New Caledonia 10 0 15 53.3 0.2
49 SV El Salvador 296 0 35 50.8 5.8
50 BR Brazil 7928 59 1687 48.7 162.7
51 BM Bermuda 3 0 4 48.3 0.1
52 MV Maldives 13 0 1 48.0 0.3
53 SK Slovakia 250 1 150 46.5 5.4
54 VE Venezuela 1012 3 186 46.0 22.0
55 RO Romania 981 36 480 45.3 21.7
56 GU Guam 7 0 2 44.6 0.2
57 AW Aruba 3 0 0 44.3 0.1
58 BN Brunei 13 0 2 43.3 0.3
59 BB Barbados 11 0 3 42.8 0.3
60 MT Malta 16 0 12 42.6 0.4
61 AR Argentina 1457 6 395 42.0 34.7
62 SC Seychelles 3 0 0 38.7 0.1
63 CL Chile 480 6 182 33.5 14.3
64 MX Mexico 3190 18 523 33.3 95.8
65 LV Latvia 82 0 54 33.2 2.5
66 TW Taiwan 681 5 225 31.7 21.5
67 PR Puerto Rico 118 0 28 30.9 3.8
68 VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) 3 0 1 30.9 0.1
69 BS Bahamas 8 0 2 30.8 0.3
70 ZA South Africa 1200 10 531 28.7 41.7
71 AN Netherlands Antilles 6 0 3 28.7 0.2
72 MY Malaysia 565 6 149 28.3 20.0
73 PF French Polynesia 6 0 5 26.7 0.2
74 RE Reunion 18 0 6 26.5 0.7
75 TT Trinidad and Tobago 32 1 5 25.1 1.3
76 FM Micronesia, Federated States 3 0 0 23.9 0.1
77 KW Kuwait 41 0 14 21.0 2.0
78 BA Bosnia and Herzegovina 52 0 7 19.6 2.7
79 MK Macedonia 41 2 5 19.5 2.1
80 AM Armenia 67 0 12 19.3 3.5
81 PA Panama 51 0 21 19.2 2.7
82 MP Northern Mariana Islands 1 0 1 19.1 0.1
83 YU Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte 202 6 86 18.8 10.8
84 BH Bahrain 11 0 6 18.6 0.6
85 BZ Belize 4 0 7 18.2 0.2
86 MH Marshall Islands 1 0 0 17.1 0.1
87 AS American Samoa 1 0 0 16.8 0.1
88 MU Mauritius 19 0 7 16.7 1.1
89 RU Russia 2446 34 928 16.5 148.2
90 MO Macau 8 0 2 16.1 0.5
91 CO Colombia 592 3 173 16.1 36.8
92 TR Turkey 971 9 206 15.5 62.5
93 AG Antigua and Barbuda 1 0 2 15.2 0.1
94 QA Qatar 8 1 3 14.6 0.5
95 AE United Arab Emirates 42 1 15 13.7 3.1
96 PY Paraguay 69 0 18 12.5 5.5
97 MQ Martinique 5 0 5 12.5 0.4
98 TN Tunisia 111 0 16 12.3 9.0
99 UA Ukraine 617 10 253 12.1 50.9
100 DM Dominica 1 0 0 12.1 0.1
101 CU Cuba 131 6 35 12.0 11.0
102 VU Vanuatu 2 0 3 11.3 0.2
103 PE Peru 236 0 35 9.6 24.5
104 NA Namibia 16 0 11 9.5 1.7
105 LB Lebanon 36 1 8 9.5 3.8
106 EH Western Sahara 2 0 2 9.0 0.2
107 CV Cape Verde 4 0 0 8.9 0.4
108 BY Belarus 89 5 36 8.5 10.4
109 VC Saint Vincent and the Grenad 1 0 0 8.4 0.1
110 BO Bolivia 59 0 15 8.2 7.2
111 JP Japan 968 6 322 7.7 125.4
112 EC Ecuador 84 0 19 7.3 11.5
113 MD Moldova 32 0 10 7.2 4.5
114 ST Sao Tome and Principe 1 0 0 6.9 0.1
115 SR Suriname 3 0 4 6.9 0.4
116 PH Philippines 500 4 115 6.7 74.5
117 JM Jamaica 15 0 3 5.8 2.6
118 GY Guyana 4 0 1 5.6 0.7
119 DO Dominican Republic 43 0 12 5.3 8.1
120 GT Guatemala 57 0 15 5.1 11.3
121 BW Botswana 7 0 3 4.7 1.5
122 CM Cameroon 66 0 8 4.6 14.3
123 MN Mongolia 11 0 9 4.4 2.5
124 TH Thailand 251 3 93 4.3 58.9
125 HN Honduras 23 0 7 4.1 5.6
126 NI Nicaragua 16 0 5 3.7 4.3
127 OM Oman 8 0 2 3.7 2.2
128 KZ Kazakhstan 61 0 21 3.6 16.9
129 PS Palestine 9 0 0 3.4 2.6
130 JO Jordan 13 0 3 3.1 4.2
131 ID Indonesia 603 34 192 2.9 206.6
132 AL Albania 9 1 4 2.8 3.2
133 KG Kyrgyzstan 11 0 4 2.4 4.5
134 GE Georgia 12 0 31 2.3 5.2
135 AZ Azerbaijan 16 0 3 2.1 7.7
136 SA Saudi Arabia 38 0 13 2.0 19.4
137 LK Sri Lanka 36 1 3 1.9 18.6
138 ZM Zambia 16 0 4 1.7 9.2
139 IN India 1508 16 370 1.6 952.1
140 ZW Zimbabwe 17 0 8 1.5 11.3
141 NP Nepal 31 0 1 1.4 22.1
142 EG Egypt 83 1 14 1.3 63.6
143 MA Morocco 37 0 18 1.2 29.8
144 UZ Uzbekistan 29 0 15 1.2 23.4
145 CN China 1465 4 253 1.2 1210.0
146 PG Papua New Guinea 5 0 1 1.1 4.4
147 IR Iran 70 0 25 1.1 66.1
148 DZ Algeria 30 0 12 1.0 29.2
149 CI Cote d'Ivoire 13 0 5 0.9 14.8
150 SN Senegal 8 0 0 0.9 9.1
151 GA Gabon 1 0 3 0.9 1.2
152 PK Pakistan 108 5 18 0.8 129.3
153 MG Madagascar 9 0 4 0.7 13.7
154 KE Kenya 18 0 4 0.6 28.2
155 VN Vietnam 47 0 6 0.6 74.0
156 LY Libya 3 0 1 0.6 5.4
157 NE Niger 5 0 0 0.5 9.1
158 TM Turkmenistan 2 0 1 0.5 4.1
159 TG Togo 2 0 0 0.4 4.6
160 MR Mauritania 1 0 0 0.4 2.3
161 BD Bangladesh 47 0 10 0.4 123.1
162 MZ Mozambique 6 0 2 0.3 17.9
163 CF Central African Republic 1 0 0 0.3 3.3
164 RW Rwanda 2 0 0 0.3 6.9
165 ER Eritrea 1 0 0 0.3 3.4
166 KH Cambodia 3 0 1 0.3 10.9
167 SL Sierra Leone 1 0 1 0.2 4.8
168 TZ Tanzania 6 0 0 0.2 29.1
169 LA Laos 1 0 2 0.2 5.0
170 BF Burkina Faso 2 0 1 0.2 10.6
171 TJ Tajikistan 1 0 1 0.2 5.9
172 HT Haiti 1 0 1 0.1 6.7
173 SY Syria 2 0 0 0.1 15.6
174 GH Ghana 2 0 1 0.1 17.7
175 MW Malawi 1 0 0 0.1 9.5
176 UG Uganda 2 0 0 0.1 20.2
177 AO Angola 1 0 0 0.1 10.3
178 NG Nigeria 8 0 2 0.1 103.9
179 YE Yemen 1 0 1 0.1 13.5
180 ET Ethiopia 4 0 0 0.1 57.2
181 XW The World (Somewhere in it) 255 207 0 0.0 5771.9
182 SD Sudan 1 0 0 0.0 31.5
183 MM Myanmar 1 0 0 0.0 46.0
184 CD Democratic Congo 1 0 1 0.0 46.5
185 WF Wallis and Futuna Islands 1 0 1 0.0 0.0
WHERE PEOPLE USE LINUX
Place Users Percent
==============================
school 35434 21.09%
home 149569 89.01%
not used 21 0.01%
work 74296 44.21%
somewhere 2810 1.67%
==============================
TOTAL 168035 100.00%
NOTE: The total is the 168035 users who answered this question.
Some gave more than one answer, so the number of answers is 262130
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From: "percy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp error
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:52:54 +0800
Dear Linuxers
i have a problem that is my linux dialin system can not receive the user's
dialin suddenly.
after i checked, i discover that user can not run pppd after they dial in.
the error message is
[percy@master percy]$ ppp
/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
setuid-root
the ppp is an alias(is it a problem?)
i add a execute permission to
chmod u+x /usr/sbin/pppd
but it is not effect.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pentium 4 support?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:02:15 GMT
>>>>> "Ron" == Ron Cresswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ron> Does anyone know whether the 2.4 (or even 2.2.x) kernels can take
Ron> advantage of the SIMD pipeline processor built into the Pentium 4
Ron> chip? Or even if this is a kernel requirement (in other words,
Ron> does the chip take care of it behind the scenes?)
The most relevant dependancy here would not be on the kernel, but
rather on the _compiler_ being used to compile the kernel. Which
would be GCC.
Reviews, by the way, seem to indicate that the present version of the
P4 is "pretty bad."
See <http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001122/p4-05.html>, for
instance.
The usual expectation would be that the CPU should take care of a lot
of this itself, invisible to the generic "Pentium code" being run.
But it's _possible_ that the pipeline processor requires writing code
specifically attuned to its use, in which case it won't get used well
until (if?) GCC gets modified to be "Pentium 4-aware."
In any case, it's not primarily a kernel issue...
Ron> PS If there is a better newsgroup for this type of question,
Ron> I'd appreciate being pointed in it's direction :)
comp.os.linux.development.system, probably...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: lpr: print file too big - How to correct?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:02:17 GMT
>>>>> "georgiev" == georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
georgiev> Hi, The lpr program refuses to take files bigger than ~800K
georgiev> for print - what means I can not print images. I have 9Mb in
georgiev> the printer, and anyways the lpr may not know how big will
georgiev> be the file after the filter processes it, so it has no
georgiev> business to limit the file size - the print filter may do
georgiev> that.
georgiev> I read almost anything around and did not found how to
georgiev> increase the limit.
georgiev> So, may please someone tell me how to increase the lpr/lpd
georgiev> file size limit?
The manual page for printcap certainly documents this. If you don't
have appropriate man pages installed, see:
<http://www.linuxprinting.org/man/printcap.5.html>
The critical thing to introduce to your /etc/printcap file is the string:
:mx#0:
That sets the maximum document size to be unlimited. The default
value is 1000 blocks of size BUFSIZ.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: c-pen
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:02:22 GMT
>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stefano> Hi, I would like to know whether anyone is working on making
Stefano> the c-pen (http://www.cpen.com) work with linux.
<http://www.datamind.co.uk/merchant/pen_scanners2.htm> seems useful
in providing comparative information, and indicates that the Siemens
Pocket Reader may be a better choice.
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PASCAL is not a language. It was an experiment combining the
flexibilty of C with that of a drug-crazed penguin. It is also the
'language' of choice of many CS professors who aren't up to handling
REAL programming. Hence, it is not a language.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: red-carpet for redhat
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:02:26 GMT
>>>>> "Fabrice" == Fabrice Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fabrice> John Hasler wrote:
>> Ahmad Al-rasheedan writes: > Is red-carpet for Debian based
>> distros. only?
>>
>> What is 'red-carpet'?
Fabrice> From http://www.ximian.com/, Red Carpet is the "next
Fabrice> generation Ximian updater and software management
Fabrice> application". It's not Debian only. At the moment it
Fabrice> supports both RPM and DEB based systems.
apt-get configuration for it can be located at:
deb ftp://spidermonkey.ximian.com/pub/red-carpet/binary/debian-22-i386/ ./
The thing that is confusing/irritating is that the marketing spiel
does _nothing_ to document just what the differences between "Red
Carpet" and apt-get are, and why, aside from it using "k001 web d00d
terminology," it should be considered preferable to the existing
stuff.
If 'red-carpet' was built as a spiffy GUIed front end to put in front
of apt-get, providing a UI for manipulating the "channels" one might
put into /etc/apt/sources.list, and providing a UI to manipulate the
packages being selected from that list, that would be well and good.
But it appears to be Yet Another Package Management System,
gratuitously separate from apt-get or Auto-RPM.
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ibcs broken in 2.4?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:05:48 GMT
I've compiled the iBCS modules dosens of times in previous versions of
Linux: Slackware, RH, Mandrake, SuSE.
But in 2.4.0 (SuSE 7.1) it won't compile:
bash-2.04# make
set -e; for i in iBCSemul Tools; do \
test ! -d $i || \
{ make -C $i; }; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ibcs/iBCSemul'
cc -D__KERNEL__=1 -DMODULE -D__NO_VERSION__ -I../include
-I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -DSOCKSYS_MAJOR=30 -DEMU_SCO -DEMU_ISC
-DEMU_BINFMT_COFF -c xnx.c
In file included from xnx.c:38:
../include/ibcs/ibcs.h:47: warning: function declaration isn't a
prototype
xnx.c: In function `xnx_pathconf':
xnx.c:378: warning: implicit declaration of function `kmem_cache_free'
xnx.c:378: `names_cachep' undeclared (first use in this function)
xnx.c:378: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
xnx.c:378: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [xnx.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ibcs/iBCSemul'
make: *** [all] Error 2
bash-2.04#
Anyone succeed in compiling it on linux 2.4?
TIA
John Sandell
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web page publishing
Date: 28 Feb 2001 19:02:37 -0600
Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:56:05 -0500, wrote :
G> Jeff Roediger wrote:
G>
G>
G> > Brian
G> > You wont find anything like FP on linux or freeBSD.
G> > There are programs like Bluefish that are out there. But you do need to
G> > know html.
G> > but just about any text editor will do.
G> > jeff
G>
G> Yes, I finally figured this out although I settled on QUANTA2 which at
G> least makes an attempt to be for those of us who are not programmers. With
G> it I believe I can muddle my way though the site update.
G>
G> Thanks. I just didn't want to have to install a text editor, learn how to
G> use it, install an ftp program, learn how to use it. Linux is wonderful
G> but sometimes trying to get any work done is a bear.
G>
G> For example, I wanted to change my logo so I decided to install the GIMP.
G> 7 meg rpm download. My package amanger complains that it won't handle
G> anthing with major number => 3. Downloaded 3 new versions of RPM to no
G> avail Now in the process of downloading theGimp sources 12 megs. No doubt
G> when I try to compile it, something or other will be missing and I'll spend
G> more time plinking around.
G>
G> There's something to be said for just going down to the Office Depot and
G> buying a program in a box.
What Linux distro did you install ?!? GIMP is included in RedHat 5.2 through
6.2 (Don't know about RH 7.x).
G>
G>
G> --
G> thanks....Brian
G>
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