On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, arachne-digest wrote:
> > What is the status of this software ?? (freeware with source, freeware,
> > shareware ??)
>
> Seems to be shareware - at least for the "lite" version I tried.
It is shareware, but free for non-commercial use. However, registration is
expected if you are living in rich western or central European country,
not mentioning North America.
> > Does it run on a DOS Filesystem ??
>
> Yes and no.
Yes
> > (will it also work with fat32 ?)
>
> Don't know/care.
Yes, as long as your DOS supprts it ;-)
> > Can you run DOS Programms ?
>
> Yes and no.
Definitely Yes, but this depends on DOS, not on Arachne.
> Since several people have mailed about it so I think I should get the facts
> straight for you. A few days ago arachne.cz changed from Red Hat to a
> "home-made" Linux version (Arachne "SC" Linux). Not everything was (or
Yes, NetDave assembled his distribution (I don't know what ASCLinux stands
for myself, I haven't asked him yet. Maybe it is Arachne Supercomupting
Center Linux ;-)
> actually is) as it used to with the servers. I sent a note to the admin
> yesterday and today Michael told me he had started majorodmo up again. And
> since you can see this mail you aren't unsubscribed and never was ;-)
Problems were usual user access rights related, and had nothing to do with
the fact, that Arachne Labs will have our own distribution of Linux web
server (workstation is planned too, but it will be much, much more work
than webserver Linux...)
> The list was down for some time. Now it is working again. It wasn't
> you or your ISP. <G>
It was my sysadmin who caused this ;-) He increase3d security too much.
Old installation was hacked, BTW (fortunately hacker was not too evil)
> Of particular interest to Arachne users is that
> BasicLinux 1.2 now has 1.4meg free on its filesystem
> (after removing the "links" browser). I'm hoping that
> this will be enough space for Arachne (including all
> its support files and SVGAlib). I am very keen to put
Yes, it should be possible!
> Arachne in BasicLinux. Can any of you Linux Arachne
> users tell me whether 1.4meg will be enough space?
> (I am unable to run Linux Arachne myself because all
> my systems use libc5, and Arachne does not currently
> support this library.)
>
Check size of SVGAlib - I think it is under 300 KB, while Arachne for
Linux with only one font set included should be up to 800 KB, or so.
Question is version of libc provided by BasicLinux.
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