Linux-Misc Digest #671, Volume #18 Sun, 17 Jan 99 22:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Bitbucket)
Re: My partition choice (Ilya)
Kernel Recompile - "Ran out of input data" (mike dombrowski)
Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND idiot-friendly?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Win 98 partition (Troy Davidson)
Re: Question: Dial-in line only gives login prompt every second connection (Gregory
G. Woodbury)
Re: My partition choice (James Youngman)
Re: Screensaver capture (James Youngman)
linux reports seeing only 15MB of 20MB installed ("J. Byrne")
Re: lilo stalls at LI ! ("Dave Nelson")
Re: partition table has mess up in MBR. (David Efflandt)
Re: fpc (burk)
Re: traceroute is using the wrong interface (xcitor)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Chris Wolfe)
Re: gui ftp program? (or gui frontend for ncftp?) (burk)
Re: playmidi and SB16 ? (David Efflandt)
Re: FTP Server (xcitor)
Compudex update ("Darren Priestnall")
Re: 'sync' mounted filesystems (xcitor)
Re: Connecting across the internet (Yan Seiner)
Re: Linux on Mac... (Nico Kadel-Garcia)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bitbucket)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:58:12 GMT
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:14:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias
Warkus) wrote:
>It was the Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:25:40 GMT...
>..and Bitbucket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Companies need standardization and support contracts. Even if it is
>> somewhat of a ripoff. Linux right now has neither, and as long as the
>> desktops, community colleges and training centers educate on MS
>> offerings this is not going to change real soon.
>
>Now come on, don't make yourself look ridiculous by claiming that Windows is
>in some way "standardised" or even "a standard".
Well, I suppose to some that may seem ridiculous. But MS does offer a
solution. Flawed, yes. But a comprehensive solution none the less.
When a college or small to medium business shops around or goes to a
consultant for a solution, he sells them on MS because of the name,
level of integration between services and apps, ease of use and yes,
standardization that this solution provides. Too much money? Of
course. dubious quality? of course. But it is an attempt to offer a
full solution to a need , and they are starting to meet it. And
getting better at it. Windows in and of itself is indeed a standard.
By sheer numbers alone it's fits this criteria. It's not a hurdle for
a company to hire PC operators when 90% of home users have a windows
OS on their desktop. If the business uses custom apps that are written
to a windows interface guidelines then the training time is minimal.
And it's getting worse. I see jobs for Unix admins in the paper, I
see 30 windows related jobs to every one of the Unix offerings though.
I'm sure this will change, and change for the better if Linux
continues to grow and improve as it has. But the laws of diminishing
returns effect ALL product models, whether it be a bizarre, or a
cathedral.
The Volkswagen (people's car) was once a standard in Germany.
Was is the best car? No, but it filled a utilitarian need. Windows has
become an appliance for the people. People are leery of anything
free. Didn't we all grow up thinking you couldn't get something for
nothing? I don't believe that since I installed Linux, but I wouldn't
waste my breath trying to convince my sister, or my mother or my
friends who use windows, or my uncle, or my.......
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: 17 Jan 1999 23:04:51 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>BTW - you need a partition for the proc filesystem. It doesn't
> ^
> ----------|
> insert don't
> Oops.
Thank you for clarifying and enlightening.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike dombrowski)
Subject: Kernel Recompile - "Ran out of input data"
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 02:15:19 GMT
I recompiled the Kernel for my system. I copied the new kernel over to
the /boot directory under a new name and edited lilo.conf and ran
lilo. I then rebooted and at the lilo prompt I typed "new". It then
said:
loading new.......
uncompressing linux......
ran out of input data
-- system halted
what did I do wrong? If you need it I can email my kernel config file
so you can take a look at it if you want.
thanks in advance
mike dombrowski
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND
idiot-friendly?
Date: 17 Jan 1999 18:35:49 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Alexander Viro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
scribe5:
: Yes, but to do that you have to fire up Word and be at the keyboard. You can't
: put it into the script and tell to execute it each midnight, mailing the
: output to you. You can't ask the system scan through the news for your name
: as soon as load will be low enough and put the list of postings into the
: file for later viewing (some, erm, net.persons tend to do that, so mentioning
: their names in vain may lead to interesting results ;-)
Like Kibo, for example.
Kibo is famous for that, or was, in the olden days...
Is Kibo still at it?
[I suppose I'll find out if this gets a response from him. I have invoked
his name thrice, after all....]
:)
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From: Troy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win 98 partition
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:42:30 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you make RH 5.2 recognize a Win 98 partition?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Subject: Re: Question: Dial-in line only gives login prompt every second connection
Date: 18 Jan 1999 02:18:04 GMT
eli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shaped electrons to say:
># dialup lines
>d1:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -mt60 19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS1 vt100
>
>I know mgetty is better suited for dialup lines (after reading the
>Serial and Text-Terminal and Modem HOWTO's ... are there any other
>ones out there that might be useful?) but agetty should work just
>fine too no? I thought maybe the 19200 was a problem but it works
>the same either way.
Agetty might work, if the modem is configured just right, and so on.
I much prefer mgetty because the "gettydefs" capabilities allow one to
set the "modem control" bits on the serial interface. I had this
"every other" problem until I got the modem configuration and the gettydefs
*just* right.
Even now, though, there is one user who can't get a login to last for
more than 60 seconds or so before it hangs up on him. I think it is just
a cranky (bad) phone connection.
--
Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U Erstwhile co-moderator of:
soc.religion.unitarian-univ
"The Line Eater is a boojum snark." Hug your wolf. (Thanks Peter.)
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: 17 Jan 1999 21:18:40 +0000
Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This question was massively crossposted (tsk, tsk). Followups
redirected to comp.os.linux.misc.
> I'd like to know if this will work pretty well for a personal
> workstation and if I can improve this setup in any way. Redhat 5.2,
> 9.1GB hard drive.
I have recently upgraded a Red Hat 5.2 system with an 8.4Gb hard
disk. See below.
> So far, I am thinking about this partition setup. I will assume
> that the real capacity is about 90% of the pre-formatted 9.1GB
> capacity.
>
> /swap 512 MB
How much RAM do you have? 512Mb is a lot of swap. If you want 512Mb
of swap on an x86 system you sould need to use four 128Mb swap
partitions. (As you know of course, you don't actually mount swap
partitions).
> /tmp 350 MB
That's way more than you need. I tend to leave /tmp on the root
partition (though this is *not* standard Unix practice), and 100Mb is
enough. You could go crazy and allow a 200Mb /, or alternativley
allow a 50Mb /tmp, but IMHO you're daft :-)
> /usr 4096 MB
Plenty, unless you have weird stuff in /usr, like every Linux kernel
ever released in /usr/src, or several releases of FreeBSD :-) But in
that case I would prescribe a separate /usr/src partition.
> /var 1648 MB
Planning a news spool? If not, this is way too large. If so, you
should have it on a separate physical disk.
> /home 1024 MB
Personally, I have loads of dross in $HOME. Including my CVS
repository and all my own source code. Hence I have a large /home
(see below).
> / 512 MB
*Way* too big. The smaller the root partition you have, the safer you
are. If you are palanning to keep a.out and libc5 and libc6 shared
libraries in /lib, plus all the usual root partition stuff, plus some
useful files in /root, then maybe 200Mb is a reasonable maximum for
/. Otherwise, 120Mb is plenty. For many systems, 50Mb is enough.
> /proc 48 MB
/proc is a virtual filesystem. It takes up zero bytes of disk space.
It just looks like more. All the /proc data is generated on the fly
as you read it.
> I have pretty much made up my mind about /swap. What I'd like to know if
> 1648MB is enough for /var and if I should decrease /usr to give /var more
> space or if this is OK. Also, is 48MB enough for /proc? 350MB for
> /tmp?
See above. Here is my disk layout for your amusement (/dev/hdc used
to contain most of my files (except /home), before I purchased the
current /dev/hda, an 8.6Gb drive.
$ df | ~/source/tot/tot -e -a
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 198601 91445 96900 49% /
/dev/hda1 10213 1122 8564 12% /boot
/dev/hda9 4195875 1016506 2962248 26% /home
/dev/hda2 204908 43460 161448 21% /mnt/dos
/dev/hda8 2772350 2161242 467747 82% /usr
/dev/hda7 495714 140192 329921 30% /usr/src
/dev/hda6 127329 10996 109758 9% /var/spool
/dev/hdc1 19974 13 18930 0% /mnt/hdc/1
/dev/hdc2 1031279 541528 437310 55% /mnt/hdc/2
/dev/hdc3 1014784 790242 172101 82% /mnt/hdc/3
/dev/hdc4 989740 662413 276197 71% /mnt/hdc/4
/dev/hdd 514930 514930 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
0 11575697 5974089 5041124 0 0 0
Oh, and one more thing; mount /usr read-only. Remount it read-write
to install packages and compile the kernel (unless /usr/src is
separate). You'll thank me for it at fsck-time.
Also, note that I haven't taken my own advice; /var/spool contains a
news spool for reading news offline (I use newsx). However, there's
only ever one reader at a time, so I don't have to have
/var/spool/news and /var/lib/news on separate spindles.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Screensaver capture
Date: 17 Jan 1999 21:46:02 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'd like to use some of the graphics from various screensavers installed on my
> system (RH5.2, fvwm2) in some other work that I'm doing. Is there a way to
> capure a
> screen while the screensaver is running?
Not an easy way that I can think of. But all the screen savers are
separate programs. See the ouput of "rpm -ql xscreensaver| grep
lib". They're not normally on your $PATH (as of Red Hat 5.2) but they
can be run by giving the full pathname, for example
$ /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/epicycle
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From: "J. Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: linux reports seeing only 15MB of 20MB installed
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:17:19 -0800
The initial boot screen (as well as KDE) report seeing 15 MB. However, my
system has 20MB installed. Any thoughts as to why this is?
My system is an IBM ThinkPad 350 (486 SL w/o FPU identified by Linux as a
486 SX) with 20MB (the original 4 + a 16MB module). I'm running Linux
Mandrake (Red Hat) 5.2 (Linux 2.0.36). If it's relevant, I have a 1.3GB
disk--having shoe-horned RedHat 5.0, X, and a 20MB swap partition on the
original 125MB drive there wasn't much space left.
JB
byrne
at well dot com
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From: "Dave Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo stalls at LI !
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:34:33 -0600
Try boot=/dev/hda1. Install LILO to your primary partition instead of the
MBR.
Dave Nelson
thompson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>> hey y'all-
>
> so I am still having this problem. thank you for your suggestions.
>too bad they didn't change any thing.
> basically no matter what I do lilo stalls while trying to boot off of
>the MBR at LI.
>here is my lilo.conf as it is now:
>boot=/dev/hda
>linear
>install=/boot/boot.b
>map=/boot/System.map-2.0.34-0.6
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda1
> read-only
>
>I had compact in there but took it out (neither worked).
>had linear in and out
>I reformatted my mbr using dos fdisk and :
>a:>fdisk /mbr
>then reinstalled lilo, got the same result.
>I have done a bit on configuring linux and X etc so I really don't want
>to switch drives.
>although I guess I could try copying my / to my other drive.
>I have two drives:
>Quantum Pioneer 2.1 GB eide FATA2 w/64K cache, master on first
>controller
>Maxtor 4.3 GB UDMA 9ms, master on second controller
>CD as slave on first controller.
>(it was just easiest to setup this way)
>anyone pleeze have a suggestion.
>I AM TIred of booting off of the floppy.
> thanks-
> eric
>orig. message:
>> Okay I've now had this problem on two machines. I think I was
trying
>> to boot off of the same drive but I am not sure.
>> I go through the install (first with debian 2.0, then RH 5.0 then RH
>> 5.1) and everything goes fine. it installs lilo in the MBR of
>> /dev/hda. this happens to be a quantum 2 gig drive. master on first
>> IDE controller.
>> when I reboot it displays the LI of LILO but then stalls. This is in
>> the case of both redhat installs. with debian it displays 1FA: (I
>> think) and stalls.
>> this is an error code right?
>> this happened on my old machine and present machine. I did every thing
>> right ASAIK.
>> so I am assuming it is something with my drive.
>> is it the MBR. I am going to try dos fdisk using the /mbr flag and then
>> reinstalling LILO. I can boot fine of the floppy BTW.
>> will this work?
>> any help will be most greatly appreciated.
>> thanks-
>> eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: partition table has mess up in MBR.
Date: 18 Jan 1999 02:33:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:43:14 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need an utility to completly fix my MBR, from nothing (everything is wrong
>in it) the partion table is wrong, an perhaps the disk descriptor too. FDISK
>/MBR is useless in this case. fdisk refused to run at first, and then it
>allowed no more than 600 Mo in 2 partitions (my disk is 4.2 Go) scandisk make
>a divide by zero error when analyzing partition table. NDD hangs. linux
>install reports an error when installing lilo. partitions magic 4 refuses to
>read the disk: partitions error #108: bad partition table data. i tryed to
>use an utility in Invircible supposed to fix an MBR, but it didn't worked...
>I have really no idea what to do now!!!
>
>I guess some bit set in factory has been changed (Virus?).
Either that or you are using overlay software to be able to use a large
drive with old BIOS, and don't know it.
Try to get a bootable DOS/Win floppy from another machine. Write protect
it, boot from it and see if you can do a directory listing of your C:
drive.
If think you may have a virus, avoid putting any floppies from that
computer in any other computer until you have a chance to check everything
with an anti-virus program. The Stoned Empire Monk (Monkey) virus XOR's
your partition table and relocates it, putting itself in your MBR. It
also infects any floppies put into the machine, which if accidently booted
on another machine (even non-bootable floppies) will infect that machine.
I got this virus from a refurbished machine. I could still boot to Linux
with a boot floppy, but could not mount any other partitions. I don't
think Norton Anti-Virus was really familiar with LILO, because I could not
boot into Win95. But I was setting up a new primary drive and was at
least able to get data off of the old one.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fpc
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:30:54 -0500
As far as I know, they haven't completed work on a free version of the
VCL. Some delphi code compiles sometimes is my understanding (When I
need to compile Delphi code I use Delphi...I realize this isn't always
an option.) The GUI-building ability of Delphi isn't duplicated yet.
Hope I helped
-burk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor)
Subject: Re: traceroute is using the wrong interface
Date: 18 Jan 1999 00:58:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:51:04 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in message <77tev6$10e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|But now when I attempt a traceroute, it says it has found multiple interfaces
|and is going to use eth0 (which is the wrong one).
|
|How can I get it to choose the correct interface???
Check the -i option. Check the manpage for more details.
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From: Chris Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:03:26 -0500
I have never managed to blue-screen my NT4. On the other hand, the
explorer restarts every time I browse a Windows 95 share, and Doctor
Watson gets to generate an error log every third time I close my IDE or
Netscape, or cancel anything...
FUD? I doubt it.
Chris
Chris Allen wrote:
>
> Shame on you for spreading FUD like that. I work as an NT sysadmin in a
> large development environment. Everyone uses NT workstations or Win95
> laptops. For the first 1.5 years of the project, I was the main person
> providing site support (in addition to maintaining my 8 NT servers). I
> get maybe 2 bluescreens a month out of 200 workstations and 8 servers.
> These machines aren't used lightly, so idle time is not an issue. Many
> have been up for a month or more. The least reliable server has been up
> for 50 days or so. My most reliable servers (a tie between 6) have been
> up continuously for over 6 months (would be longer, but we had to cut
> power to the data center for construction). My personal workstation was
> up for over 30 days before I shut it down to replace it with an NT
> laptop (it's never BSOD on me).
>
> Chris
> Posted via Linux-the only os on my home machine
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From: burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gui ftp program? (or gui frontend for ncftp?)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:37:03 -0500
>
> FileRunner (fr) is pretty much like WS_FTP is in windoze. It requires
> tk/tcl 8.
>
> --
> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
Also, Midnight Commander handles ftp well. If you want a straight ftp
client try wxftp which will remind you strongly os wsftp, if you
remember that program.
-burk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: playmidi and SB16 ?
Date: 18 Jan 1999 02:40:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15 Jan 1999 12:29:01 GMT, Cliff Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just compiled up 'playmidi' for Linux and *cannot*
>get it to play midi files through the FM synth on my
>soundcard! As far as I know, the sound drivers are correctly
>compiled into the kernel, all the IRQ and DMA settings are
>correct. I've tried fiddling with the 'playmidi.h' file
>and tried all the command line options. And I get zip,
>nada, nothing!
>
>It plays successfully through the external midi connector
>to a keyboard, but NOT through the FM synth.
>
>Anyone else had this problem? Anyone know what to do?
>--
>Cliff
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
Apparently the midi is only for hardware midi (like your external
keyboard) or if you have built-in or loaded wavetables (?). Compile in or
use the command line switch for OPL4. That works even though the SB16 is
OPL2/3.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: FTP Server
Date: 18 Jan 1999 00:58:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:20:25 GMT,
Jeff Grossman wrote
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|Hello,
|
|I must have done something today that killed my FTP server. I cannot
|connect to it anymore. I have restarted the Linux box, but it still
|does not work. Does anybody have any ideas for me?
Start by telling us what you did today...? Anything with
/etc/services? /etc/inetd.conf? /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny?
Exactly what is not working for you?
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From: "Darren Priestnall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compudex update
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:13:24 -0000
I have finally got around to upgrading my Linux software web site.
It now includes updated information about all my Linux CD's as well as links
to useful Linux sites.
The links list is being updated regularly and anyone interested in adding to
this list should email the web address and details to me.
The developer CD has been further updated to now include several new
packages.
These include the official Sun Systems Java Development Kit, EGCS which is a
big improvement over the standard GCC tool, the latest developer Kernel
which boasts many new features and bug fixes, the Data Display Debugger for
professional development and several other new beta packages along with the
latest version of LessTif.
The Office CD is now complete and shipping and includes the full list of
software including Corel Word Perfect 8 and Star Office 5.
The graphics CD is also complete and includes the full list of software as
well as the latest version of X-Amp which is the new Linux version of WinAmp
from Windows 95.
I'm also looking at collecting together a CD of alternative X display
servers along with XFree and a list of window managers to present the best
selection of desktops around.
If people would like to see such a CD, let me know and I will double my
efforts to create the finished CD.
I'm also looking at distributing my CD's in future through MicroWorld which
advertise in the PC press.
This will further expand the user base of the Linux CD's.
They can be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lastly, I would like to ask that anyone with ideas or input about my web
site or future CD's should contact me.
This includes web links, new software packages, suggestions for alternative
operating systems including BeOS and suggestions about my mailing lists or
other services.
I am thinking of creating a member based group in the future which entitles
members to cheap CD's, support and a printed magazine covering all things
OS.
As a developer I am also looking at presenting more in-depth support for the
Linux development community.
My experience in development is mostly MS Windows based so I would require
user input from other sources to ensure it is a success.
Would anyone be willing to support a printed product of this nature with
articles etc ?
It's still a rough concept idea but one that may be realised in the future.
So far, I have sold about 4 CD sets and haven't even covered the cost of
cutting these CD's.
However, this is probably due to my lack of advertising and I am not a fully
fledged company intent on making profits.
Compudex is run part time from home as a hobby while the majority of my time
is spent developing tools for the MS Windows community.
It's for this reason that mass sales and new projects such as a printed
magazine would be difficult to manage myself in a part time capacity so
friendly user input from other members of the Linux community would
certainly be appreciated.
Feel free to make any comments or suggestions in the future.
I am trying to work with the rest of the Linux community and have had great
input
from many users and developers including Code Forge who are keen to support
the Linux community with their exciting new development environment.
This I may supply in the future as a complete seperate product if the demand
is there.
Darren Priestnall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor)
Subject: Re: 'sync' mounted filesystems
Date: 18 Jan 1999 01:03:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:37:14 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|Anyone know what mounting a filing system with the 'sync' option is
|actually supposed to do ?
>From the man page for mount(8):
sync All I/O to the file system should be done
synchronously.
Beyond that, I'm not sure.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba
Subject: Re: Connecting across the internet
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:09:32 -0500
IMHO, getting linux to act as a server for Win95 has everything to do with
Samba. I just need to do it in a secure way over the internet rather than
copper in the building...
Yan
Brian McCauley wrote:
I can't help but I can tell you that you are asking in the wrong
> place.
>
> Getting Win95 to do PPP over ssh (if it can be done at all) has
> nothing to do with Linux, Samba or SMB.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico Kadel-Garcia)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux on Mac...
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 02:59:44 GMT
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:04:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Macintosh G3 at home. I have been very interested in trying to run
>Linux on it. I know that there are many solutions out there, but I have some
>basic questions:
>
>1. Do I need to reinitialize my hard drive to install/run linux?
>
>2. What is the best solution available for the Macintosh?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ryan Born
>Gundersen Lutheran Information Systems
>
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>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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