Linux-Misc Digest #447, Volume #19 Sun, 14 Mar 99 13:13:07 EST
Contents:
jdbc:odbc bridge (Hans Wolters)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Moore)
Re: passwd file locked (mike)
Re: Help with Yamaha onboard sound on Intel Seattle2 440BX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Slackware on a second HDD (Jeffrey Straszheim)
Linux,Cgi,Java (Raymond Tong)
Re: NT-Backup-Tapes under Linux (Kai Schnabel)
Re: General Linux Question (Jeffrey Straszheim)
Re: Open source MS bad for Linux? (James Knott)
Re: Help! Install libstdc++... (Unclebob)
Re: rvplayer doesn't work after kernel 2.2 upgrade (Eric Potter)
Re: switching intellimouse between Linux/X and NT ("John Danek")
StarOffice Filter -- That's all I know! ("Benjamin Sher")
critical hard disk error!? ("Craig")
Re: How to "Russify" Netscape 4? (Andrew Comech)
Re: pppd as root only ! (Michael McConnell)
Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!! (Ian Hay)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: jdbc:odbc bridge
Date: 14 Mar 1999 12:08:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,
Is there anybody who can point me to a (gpl) driver (odbc/jdbc) which I can
use to import an msaccess db?
Regards Hans
--
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http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 04:17:11 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 2.0v 4.5x100MHz would boot, but app windows mysteriously disappear, lock up on fp
benchmark. 4.5x103MHz would lock after 15 minutes. Cut the A119, A121 and B119
traces, core voltage up to 2.2V. 100% stable. SL2WM, step 0, Costa Rica, mfg 1/99,
P2B rev 1.02, 1005 bios.
After 3 hours running cpu and disk benchmarks: 32C CPU, 27C mainboard, intel boxed
fan.
early numbers for PII and C300A:
________ nbench _____ _Winbench99_
mem int fp CPU FPU
C300A/4.5x75 (337) 1.501 1.280 2.472
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (333) 27.0 1700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (350) 1.537 1.311 2.537
C300A/4.5x100 (450) 1.998 1.706 3.289 35.6 2380
C300A/4.5x103 (463) 2.033 1.739 3.402
Baseline: AMD K6/233, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: passwd file locked
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:55:32 GMT
I found the .pwd.lock but it turned out I had the chattr i set which
prevented me from writting to it. Thanks for replying.
Mike
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike wrote:
> >I've just recently developed this nasty problem where I can't write to
> >my passwd file, even as root. The permissions are 644, owner root,
> >group root yet when I try to access it as root, it gives me the same
> >permission denied response as if I was logged in as another user. All
> >other root write-only files work fine.
>
> rm /etc/.pwd.lock ... does it complain about file not found though ?
>
> Cheers,
> Juergen
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with Yamaha onboard sound on Intel Seattle2 440BX
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:24:45 GMT
Too many dma values is generated because you are using a newer kernel. Go the
file /etc/conf.modules and find your entry that looks like this one.
Your dma setting will say something like dma=0,1 when it should say dma=0
dma2=1
alias sound opl3sa2
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpu_io=0x330
Rgds
Stuart J. Ewen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RLopez6836) wrote:
> I have a Micron P2 350 with an Intel Seattle2 440BX with a Yamaha YMF 740b-v
> 9844 EAGQ onboard sound. I run RedHat 5.2 with a 2.2.1 kernel. I configured
> sound as a module and have tried all the drivers I can find but I read that
the
> generic OPL3x was the way to go. When I use it with sndconfig I get the error
> message "/lib/modules/2.2.1/misc/sb.o:init_module: device or resource busy" at
> the end when I try to play a sample. I used the dma and IRQ values from
> windows(I dual boot out of neccesity). dmesg says "OPL3 not detected ff".I
have
> also gotten the message "too many dma values max 1" when I tried to use other
> drivers. I read the HOWTO files at Metalab but they do not mention my sound
> situation. Am I just not supported? Any ideas? I am at my wits end! I would
> appreciate any advice.
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
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From: Jeffrey Straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Slackware on a second HDD
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:12:08 -0500
Wael Sedky wrote:
[snip]
> I have win98 on a 2GB partition and 340MB partition on the first drive.
> The second drive is currently fat formatted (to be deleted) 1GB.
>
> when i run the boot and root disks. I noticed
>
> hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
> hdc: [PTBL][621/64/63] hdc1
>
> Is this hdc my second drive?
>
> I tried doing fdisk hdc, but i didn't get the fdisk program running. It
> looked like there were some partition table errors although the drive is OK
> with windows.
"hdc" is probably your second drive. If you want to be sure
then open your box and see if your second drive is on a
different IDE cable than your primary. If it is, then "hdc"
is it. "hdb" would name a slave drive hanging from the same
cable as the primary.
hda == IDE 0, master
hdb == IDE 0, slave
hdc == IDE 1, master
hdd == IDE 1, slave
...etc...
I don't know why fdisk isn't working. Make sure you're typing
"fdisk /dev/hdc"; if you leave "dev" out it won't work.
If that doesn't help, maybe you could blow out the partition
in Microsoft's fdisk and furthermore try fdisk /mbr (again
in MS's fdisk) to make sure nothing weird is left on it.
[snip]
Good luck.
--
---Jeffrey L Straszheim
----Systems Engineer, Programmer
=====stimuli AT shadow DOT net
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From: Raymond Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,computer42.mail2news.linux-alert,cz.comp.linux,cz.comp.linux.czman,cz.comp.linux.debian,dc.org.linux-users,de.alt.comm.isdn4linux
Subject: Linux,Cgi,Java
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:38:18 +0800
If you want to learn Linux,Cgi,Java...You have to buy some book about
it,Pls go to the below URL and find what you are finding:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Field/1357/bookstore.htm
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From: Kai Schnabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT-Backup-Tapes under Linux
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:18:06 +0100
Hi,
> > Hi,
> > is there a solution to read NT-3.51 Backup-Tapes under Linux?
> >
> > One soulution would be to read them under NT.51 and write them again
> > with tar for NT (this wors pretty good) but ... I would have to retape
> > all old Backup-Tapes and then rewrite them (costs me a lot of time I
> > don't have)... I don't need those tapes every day but, one never
> > knows...
> >
> > Any other solutions? Read the tapes with dd and then convert ist with a
> > NT_BACKUP-to-tar tool? Does such a programme exits?
> >
> > I want to update our department server from NT 3.51 to Linux and the old
> > Backups are the only thing which let me hesitate.....
> >
> > Kai
> > --
> > Kai P. Schnabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Reformstudiengang Medizin,
> > http://www.charite.de/rv/reform/ | Humboldt Universitaet zu
> > Berlin
> > Tel.: +49 30 450-76112 FAX: -76912 | *Linux for IQs higher than
> > 95*
>
> I remember hearing about a set GNU utils that run under NT 4.0. You
> might look for them and see is 1) they run under 3.51 (they probably do)
> and 2) they have a 'tar' with them.
Thanks for the hint!
The gnu-tools have a 'tar' wiht them, (see above...), so I could read
the backups and write them again in the 'tar'-format. This procedure
takes a lot of time I don't want to spend... I'd rather need a tool
which runs under Linux and can read NT-Backups so I don't have to
translate all my old backup-tapes to the tar-format. I would than just
keep the old tapes and use this tool just in case it's required
(proabably never...)
Kai
--
Kai P. Schnabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Reformstudiengang Medizin,
http://www.charite.de/rv/reform/ | Humboldt Universitaet zu
Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 450-76112 FAX: -76912 | *Linux for IQs higher than
95*
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From: Jeffrey Straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: General Linux Question
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:17:02 -0500
Ben Bos wrote:
> Someone is working on a port of a DOS-based graphical web browser to
> Linux.
> Have a look at:
> http://home.arachne.cz/linux/
> Until this is finished, X is your only option.
Not true, if you're happy with text only web browsing
lynx still works. Of course, in this world of frames-
only sites and overblown imagemaps, that is becomming
less of an alternative.
--
---Jeffrey L Straszheim
----Systems Engineer, Programmer
=====stimuli AT shadow DOT net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Subject: Re: Open source MS bad for Linux?
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:54:57 -0500
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In any event MS are already on record as saying that their accounts
>software is so messed up that they cannot determine exactly what a days
>profit is (from another law suite)
That'll teach 'em to run Windows! ;-)
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IBM Canada Ltd.
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From: Unclebob <unclebob@this-ain't-it.net>
Subject: Re: Help! Install libstdc++...
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 07:33:08 -0600
Andrew Shiue wrote:
> I cannot rpm -i the libstdc++; it ask me for libm.so.6 & libc.so.6 (failed
> dependencies). I have checked my system and I do have the two files in /lib.
> Did I forget to setenv something ?
> Thanks a lot.
> Andy
Hi; did you try to force -f?
ub
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Subject: Re: rvplayer doesn't work after kernel 2.2 upgrade
Date: 13 Mar 1999 19:28:59 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
mike enlightened this group thus:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> After upgrading my kernel to 2.2 (I
> went to first 2.2.1 now 2.2.3)
> rvplayer doesn't work.
> The utility starts up no problem but
> when I try to play any rm file I
>get:
>
> ****audio: write error: 384 bytes
>errno: 0
>
> in the shell that spawned it. The
> pluggin doesn't work either. My sb
> 16 card is otherwise working fine.
> Most of my audio utilities can still
> play through the soundcard. I've
> upgraded my entire system to be a
> full Redhat 5.2 and mod_utils I
> upgraded to the latest version.
> Could I be missing a library or a
> compile option?
>
> If anyone has any ideas how this can
> be solved, any help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
It's all explained here:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
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From: "John Danek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: switching intellimouse between Linux/X and NT
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:05:32 -0500
Thanks everyone for the feedback,
Well I have found a satisfactory solution...
(1) It seems the Belkin Omniview is not Intellimouse 'friendly'. I have
since borrowed a Cybex SwitchView that claims to be Intellimouse compatible.
Using the Cybex switch, the mouse worked perfectly under NT ( no more delay
or temporary loss of cursor) but under Linux, the the pointer still jumped
to the upper right hand corner of the display.
(2) Changed the protocol in XF86Config back to a generic ps/2. Seems to work
ok and the wheel acts like the third button when clicked.
-John
MokeKahuna wrote in message ...
>I had the problem initially but got it to work between my NT workstation
and
>Slackware 3.5 (now up to Slackware 3.6) using the gpm. Initially my
problem
>was the -R switch causing some problems when I switched back to NT. I
found
>that if I killed the PS/2 mouse on Linux and restarted it, my mouse
>capability came back up in NT. It took me a while but finally just tried
>removing the switch (-R was default in 3.5 for PS/2 for some reason).
Until
>I figured out removing the switch helped, I relearned all the hot key
>functions in NT.
>
>BTW I'm using a simple, stupid manual switch box and not familiar with the
>OmniView. I sure it costs a LOT more than my piddly manual box but I have
>no complaints. It also works in X-windows with no adverse affect to my NT
>workstation.
>
>Moses
>gus wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Eric Gentry wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:08:52 -0500, "John Danek"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Hello,
>>> >
>>> >I have an OmniView switching between two systems; NT 4.0 Server and
>Linux
>>> >5.2 with a Microsoft PS2 Intellimouse. The mouse stops working when I
>>> >switch from NT back to Linux/X. Restarting X corrects the problem. I
was
>>> >hoping that someone had some insight on how to correct this. I'm
>guessing
>>> >that this problem is caused by some mouse initialization code in NT
that
>>> >prevents proper operation when switching back to Linux/X.
>>> >
>>> >Regards,
>>> >John Danek
>>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> Better check Belkin, but I don't think the OmniView supports the
>>> Intellimouse. I think you need the new OmniCube. Also, I couldn't
>>> get my Intellimouse (configured as an Intellimouse) to work under
>>> Linux (Red Hat 5.2). The pointer would just go whereever it wanted.
>>> Selecting "Generic PS/2 mouse" corrected the problem. Linux doesn't
>>> support the wheel yet anyway, so it didn't matter to me.
>>>
>>> If those two check out as not the answer, this might help.
>>> I recently bought an OmniCube switch. It has an option to use the
>>> <Scroll Lock> key to switch via the keyboard, rather than by the
>>> button. I don't know if the OmniView has this feature, but I know
>>> that sometimes the <Scroll Lock> will freeze the mouse/keyboard in
>>> Linux (imagine that - Scroll Lock actually working as it should).
>>> Pressing Scroll Lock again fixes the problem.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> Eric Gentry
>>
>>
>>I have the belkin omniview, and experienced the same problems.
>>
>>AFAIK this is because of the following two potential reasons. The
>>intellimouse uses all 8 pins of the connector wheras most mice use only
>>7. *Manual* switch boxes seldom switch the eighth, and thus do not
>>support the intellimouse. Further, the intellimouse uses a bidirectional
>>protocol, and it requires itself to be permanently connected to the
>>computer using a protocol which is slightly different to other mice.
>>Thus, when you switch the mouse away from the linux box (or the other
>>machine), the omniview does not respond correctly with the "dummy" mouse
>>responses. Thus, the protocol is "broken". In Win98 this is symptomised
>>by a few seconds where the mouse "catches up" with itself (which is
>>annoying but manageable), and in Linux it is revealed as jerkiness, and
>>the buttons don't work properly, etc. (The cursor for me used to end up
>>in the top right of the screen). This reaction is documented in the
>>omniview manual.
>>
>>The solution - get another mouse ;-)
>>
>>I have heard that it is possible to fix it some way, I think by using
>>gpm to feed the X server instead of the X server using it's own driver.
>>I am unsure of whether this works. It will be pointless (no pun
>>intended) anyway if you get the same effect when you are at a console
>>terminal session.
>>
>>So, in desperation I bought another mouse, except I have limited desk
>>space, so I bought a trackball (logitech). Thus, my omniview only
>>switches the monitor and keyboard.
>>
>>That was my fix.
>>
>>I am unhappy anyway with the quality of the image , so I am still unsure
>>of whether the idea is OK. I think I just need a bigger home with more
>>desk space to fill with more computers ;-)
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>gus
>>
>>P.S. FWIW, X does support the wheel .... I have the intellimouse driving
>>the linux box and the trackball on the Win98 machine.
>
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice Filter -- That's all I know!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:37:34 GMT
Dear friends:
Unfortunately, that's all I know about the new StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate.
I myself have not yet installed Linux (will be receiving it hopefully this
week) so I don't know what's in it. I'll be the last to know. Best wishes
to everybone.
--
Benjamin Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: "Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: critical hard disk error!?
Date: 14 Mar 1999 09:11:39 PST
Ok, I've really gotten myself into a mess this time... (And sorry for the
long post, but I have to go back to work tomorrow with my laptop)
I dual boot my laptop with Win98/RH Linux. Over the weekend I decided I
would reformat and repartition my hard disk. During my initial installation
of Linux I used Disk Druid (RH partition utility) and just created a /
(800MB Linux Native) and Linux swap partition (50MB) which I quickly figured
out was not enough after adding KDE and some other software.
At this point I used PartitionMagic 3.0 to delete my Linux partitions within
the extended partition they were in. That left me with a FAT32 partition
(win98), and extended and another FAT32.
I booted to DOS and did a "format c:" and then installed Win98 thinking that
I should now have one big 4GB FAT32 partition. Wrong... After installing
Win98 I installed PartitionMagic again and was going to use it to create my
Linux partitions. When I opened it, it said "partition table error #113
found". The detailed explaination says "the hard disk contains erroneous
values". It doesn't allow me to do ANYTHING to the disk.
In the 'resolving partition table errors' section of PM3.0 manual it says I
need to delete the partitions using FDISK. When I boot to DOS and run fdisk
however, it just seems to hang forever. It's like it's working, but never
comes up (and I've waited for at least an hour).
What can I do now? How do I delete my partition table and start fresh??
Thanks,
Craig
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From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to "Russify" Netscape 4?
Crossposted-To:
soc.culture.russian,comp.unix.questions,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
Date: 14 Mar 1999 12:32:13 -0500
Hi,
have you read
http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/x-windows/
?
It answers at least questions about Netscape.
Best,
Andrew
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd as root only !
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:59:58 +0000
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Len Cuff wrote:
> I have set up pppd and can connect to my ISP fine but only as root ! If
> I try as a 'normal' user then I get a permission denied on pppd. I've
> checked the settings and pppd is set as -rwsr-xr-- which looks correct.
> If I set pppd to 777 just to try it, I still get an error saying that
> only root can use it with a NAME ?
On my system, I have pppd like this:
-rwsr-x--- 1 root modem 117128 Mar 11 01:16 pppd
My modem's serial port is set to this:
crw-rw-r-- 2 root modem 4, 65 Mar 14 16:24 /dev/ttyS1
..and any user (i.e. myself) is added to the group 'modem' in /etc/group
A pretty messy way of doing things. But it works. Only problem is you still
have to be root to kill it ... so I wrote myself a tiny setuid binary (not a
script) to call my hangup script - as for some reason setuid has no effect on
bash scripts.
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
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From: Ian Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me, Linux is dying on me!!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:35:37 GMT
Karl -
You've left a lot of information out of your description. For instance
- what kernel are you using/what distro are you using? If the kernel is
2.0.33 or greater, then Linux can already read FAT32 drives, and
converting to FAT16 was unnecessary. Also - how big was the FAT32
partition before the conversion? If it was greater than 2G, then it
could not have converted to FAT16 without splitting the partition. Have
you tried booting from a floppy and re-running /sbin/lilo? Disk
geometry may have changed, etc.
I.
Karl Bengtsson wrote:
>
> I'm having a lot of trouble with Linux (again...)
>
> The problem: last night I changed the filesystem on my Windows D: partition
> from FAT32 to FAT16 (using Partition It from Quarterdeck). The reason is
> that I want to access my personal files, like documents and mp3s that are
> stored on this partition, using Linux. It's about 600 megs. The C:
> partition that Windows is installed on is still FAT32, mainly because I
> have no info on this partition that I need to access from Linux, it's all
> just programs.
>
> Now when I start Linux it wont mount the file system. I get this message:
>
> Partition Check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <hda5>
> <technical specs for my FAT16 partition>
> kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 03:03
>
> Before I changed the filesystem, it would report a linux partition on hda3
> and boot from it. I've tried to use the bootdisk used to install Redhat,
> and at the boot: prompt I typed:
> "vmlinuz root:/dev/hda3"
> but it doesn't work
>
> I also think it's kinda odd that it reports five partitions , as I only
> have 4:
> Windows C: (FAT32)
> Windows D: (FAT16/VFAT)
> Linux Native
> Linux Swap
>
> Could someone PLEASE help me with this... what do I do? If I absolutely
> have to, I could change the fs on D: back to FAT32, but I'd prefer not to.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Karl
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Linuxing about since June 21, 1998 <Redhat 5.1 - 2.0.35>
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