Linux-Misc Digest #771, Volume #19 Wed, 7 Apr 99 09:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter (Gregoire Diehl)
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Michael Behrens)
KDE Install problem ("Jay")
utility for reading wtmp (Clinton Carr)
Re: utility for reading wtmp (Paul Kimoto)
about GNOME (hj)
Re: New Microsoft News (brian moore)
Re: Emacs; is there a third way? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target) (Brian McCauley)
Named Pipes (David Steuber)
Re: KDE Install problem ("Jay")
Re: WindowMaker Uninstall ("Jay")
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Shimpei Yamashita)
souncard config error after warming boot from windows (shu ling)
conio for Linux? (Erwin Waterlander)
Re: VMWARE -- why isn't it the rage topic of discussion? (Enkidu)
Re: Bill Gates looks like Mandark (David Steuber)
Re: question about memory design (William Burrow)
Re: LN03 module for Ghostscript ? (**Nick Brown)
Emacs; is there a third way?
RH5.0: I blew away my Glint and usercfg (Tom Hines)
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? (Brian McCauley)
Re: Installing Linux with Win95/8 (David Martin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregoire Diehl)
Subject: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:14:15 +0200
Hello,
my problem is, that i have create a Bitmap myself and i want to display it
in a Browser.
For this i need a program that convert it to gif or png file
( no jpeg )
Thanks for all help
Gregoire Diehl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Behrens)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
Date: 7 Apr 1999 06:07:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Kendall Bennett wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
> [deleted]
>> Optional components:
>> . Need more suggestions here!
>
> I suggest the incredibly silly "2000" suffix be dropped from any software
> version or platform name.
Positively agreed.
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From: "Jay" <ayadi@~earthlink~.net>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: KDE Install problem
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 21:22:44 -0400
I followed the KDE 1.1 installation direction step by step using the RPM
installer on my RH 5.2 system with kernel 2.2.4. However when I ran the
install-kde file it worked ok till it came to kde-suport rpm and then said I
do not have Mandrake 5.3 installed so it would not proceed further. I have
heard that is is easy to install KDE on RedHat systems. What am I doing
wrong?
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From: Clinton Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: utility for reading wtmp
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 22:55:59 -0500
Is there a utility that can list entries in the .../wtmp file? I wish to
audit previous logins.
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: utility for reading wtmp
Date: 7 Apr 1999 02:54:22 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clinton Carr wrote:
> Is there a utility that can list entries in the .../wtmp file? I wish to
> audit previous logins.
last(1)
: Last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the
: file designated by the -f flag) and displays a list of all
: users logged in (and out) since that file was created.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: hj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: about GNOME
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:42:14 -0600
Hi everyone,
Is GNOME useful? Is it neccessary if I'm using windowmaker as my window
manager?
I know many ppl use it in Enlightment. Does it really help when it's
installed in WindowMaker? Anyone has any advice?
thanx in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: 7 Apr 1999 07:38:23 GMT
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:12:28 -0400,
Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you comparing the cost of racketball to the price of getting the
> knowledge to program?
Sure. I know many people who have spent MORE on racketball in the last
-year- than I have on programming in the last 20.
> There is a big difference not only in monetary
> cost, but also time put into the activity.
Not really. Those who have a knack for programming can start really
cheap. A Linux box, a compiler, and the need is all that it
really takes.
If they don't have the knack or the yen, no amount of schooling will
give it to them.
> There is this thing that is
> called opportunity cost. It takes into account the amount of time that
> you did something and compares it to what could have been done in the
> same amount of time.
Indeed, and learning rewards you.
> Most people who take racketball classes and play
> it, do it in their leisure time or excercise time. They don't have to
> do it!
Um, I have news for you: most of the software running on your Linux box
was written by people in their leisure time, with occasional snippets of
code written while ostensibly at work.
None of them (including Linus) "had" to write a line.
> They choose to do it for whatever reason they have. Maybe they
> like it, maybe they do it so they can stay in shape, or maybe they do it
> for the competition. How many people in the world do you think would
> rather code than do something else?
Dozens that I know personally. Probably tens of thousands total. More,
certainly, if they could experience it.
> And besides my arguement was that *most* people would not code for
> free. And you can narrow that to most programmers. Let's get out of
> the ideal world and into the real one. Think about how much money is
> spent on R&D by some of the major software manufacturers. The majority
> of the people would not do things for others out of the goodness of
> their heart. And there is an even smaller number of people who would do
> something for another while taking a loss for themselves. Money and
> fame are two of the things that drive people to do things for others.
'fame' can motivate a Free Software programmer. (ESR claims it's the
major motivator, which I disagree with.) It's certainly not a motivator
for Microsoft programmers -- how many of the tens of thousands of
Microsoft drones could be called famous?
There is also a sheer joy in programming. Solving a problem is fun.
Making software do cool tricks is fun.
So it doesn't thrill -you-. BFD: it does thrill lots of people.
Hint: why do you think Linus wrote Linux 0.1: it wasn't to become
famous. It wasn't to make money. It wasn't even credit for a class.
It was because he didn't like the choice of DOS or Minix that he had,
and he thought he could do something cool and learn about x86 MMU
programming.
> You're the one that needs to get a clue.
Indeed.
> And actually racketball is fun.
No, I say it's not, and with your logic, if one person says it's not fun
it can't be.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Emacs; is there a third way?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 09:59:13 GMT
> Hello,
>
> The distributions of Linux that I have used thus far
> all claim that the X- and non-X versions of emacs
> can not coexist; you either have the one or the other.
> This presents a considerable problem to me and my wife;
> she, due to her visual handicap is forced to use the non-X
> version, whereas I use many Xwindows applications, and find
> it therefore a nuisance to part with X-emacs.
>
> Have any of you managed to install both versions side by side?
> -- I am more than willing to rename the X version to Xmacs (X-mas??)
> or something, but do not know if there are deeply hidden dependencies
> in the system that need to be addressed first in order to achieve this.
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Hans Pelleboer
The name Xemacs suggests that it needs X to run, but this is not true.
You can use it in text-mode as well. If it says `Cannot connect to X
server...' then invoke it with the option `-nw' (stands for no windows).
The same is true for GNU-emacs, it runs in text-mode and under X. And
there is no problem, to have both versions (GNU- and X-) coexist.
Typically the GNU-emacs binary is named `emacs' whereas the Xemacs
binary is called `xemacs'.
Hope, this will help you
Carsten Luckmann
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target)
Date: 7 Apr 1999 08:41:03 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have been reading my linux book and searching the man pages but I
> can not seem to find out what to do in Linux, when you want to
> diskcopy a: a: /v as in MSDOS.
There is no equivalent that I know of.
Unix tends to be simpler - you can just do:
cp /dev/fd0 imagefile
cp imagefile /dev/fd0
rm imagefile
(Note: pedants use "dd" not "cp").
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Named Pipes
Date: 06 Apr 1999 15:57:18 -0500
--Multipart_Tue_Apr__6_15:57:17_1999-1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Craig Kelly posted in another thread that it would be more efficient
to use a named pipe rather than a crontab to modify a .signature file
each time it is used. That is, I currently use a cron job to modify
my .signature file every fifteen minutes. He suggested using a named
pipe which would only call fortune on demand. I tried this with
unsatisfactory results. The constant text for my .signature file gets
through, but the fortune text ends up on STDOUT. This is the current
state of the Perl script I am playing with:
--Multipart_Tue_Apr__6_15:57:17_1999-1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mail-sig"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (1) {
open (IN, "</home/david/scripts/mail-signature");
@sig = <IN>;
close IN;
open (IN, "|fortune -a");
@fortune = <IN>;
@signature = (@sig,@fortune);
close IN;
open (OUT, ">/home/david/.signature");
$ofh = select (OUT);
$| = 1;
select ($ofh);
print OUT @signature, "\n";
close OUT;
}
--Multipart_Tue_Apr__6_15:57:17_1999-1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Is there anyway to get the behavior I want? I have not been able to
find any documentation on named pipes beyond how to make them with
mkfifo(1).
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are
3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand,
who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a
nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
--Multipart_Tue_Apr__6_15:57:17_1999-1--
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From: "Jay" <ayadi@~earthlink~.net>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: KDE Install problem
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:07:00 -0400
Got KDE from www.kde.org. So it must be the right version.
Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7eegq7$68o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Obviously, you are not using the correct rpms. I installed KDE 1.1 on
> RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.2.5 with no problems. This isn't the first time
I
> have seen this problem in this newsgroup but I have never found a
"Mandrake"
> version of KDE 1.1 yet. Maybe you got it directly from the Mandrake ftp
> site?
>
>
> Jay <ayadi@~earthlink~.net> wrote in message
> news:7eec1f$na4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I followed the KDE 1.1 installation direction step by step using the RPM
> > installer on my RH 5.2 system with kernel 2.2.4. However when I ran the
> > install-kde file it worked ok till it came to kde-suport rpm and then
said
> I
> > do not have Mandrake 5.3 installed so it would not proceed further. I
have
> > heard that is is easy to install KDE on RedHat systems. What am I doing
> > wrong?
>
>
>
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From: "Jay" <ayadi@~earthlink~.net>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: WindowMaker Uninstall
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:07:34 -0400
That did not work.
Wildman, the Cuberstalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7edjuh$n2s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 06:21:56 -0400, Jay <ayadi@~earthlink~.net>
> wrote:
> >How do I uninstall Window Maker on a RH 5.2 system?
> >
>
> Ummm...
> #rpm -e windowmaker
> would be my first guess.
>
> --
> The Wildman ICQ# 32609427
> Fight spam - http://www.spamfree.org
> Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:03:29 +0100
Rick Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I still use Agent under Wine for news, but I'm working on
>understanding INN. I now use Lyx for document production. I use
>Navigator for the web...
If you are merely trying to read news offline, leafnode is probably
the easiest thing to use. Setup literally takes only a few minutes of
work, whereas with INN you could spend hours and hours just reading
the documentation, 98% of which you aren't going to use because you
are not trying to run a real news server.
The major downside (IMHO) is that leafnode doesn't let you filter
articles, so if you have a lot of killfiles you could end up
downloading a lot of articles you don't read. However, if you get
bogged down trying to set up INN, you might want to give it a shot.
ftp://ftp.troll.no/pub/freebies/
If you decide to adopt slrn as your newsreader, you can also use
slrnpull to fetch articles.
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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From: shu ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: souncard config error after warming boot from windows
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:05:02 +0800
I discover my sound card cannot be configured correctly by the linux
kernel if I do a warm-boot after shuting down from windows. There is
completely no problem if I do a cold boot.
What is the explanation for this phenomenon? Any way to get around this?
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From: Erwin Waterlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: conio for Linux?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:48:33 GMT
Does there exist a Linux port of Borland's conio?
This could be used to port DOS text programs to
Linux textconsole.
Erwin Waterlander
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWARE -- why isn't it the rage topic of discussion?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 20:15:24 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fishbowl wrote:
>
> Okay, but what did you have that could compare to Quicken, or
> Linux for that matter?
>
Dunno, but we could do it all in 2Mb of memory, and support a
hundred or so users!
> I used those systems too, but c'mon, we are not talking about
> things with the same impact. I'm living in TODAY, and TODAY
> we are seeing systems that have benefits far beyond what the
> previous generation of systems had, even in their day. (I'm
> an old bearded hack myself, I was there, and I am still here...
> the industry, and the culture, are different now.)
>
Sure were! Those systems used to cause jaw drops and hushed
voices. The bigwigs were fitted into the visitors' white coats
and ushered round the machine room like school kids. If the
CFO dared to rest a hand lightly on the machine, he'd get a
glare from the Chief Operator and remove it guiltily!
> Okay, so VM isn't a new concept, but it has a potential to be
> sexy all of a sudden. CICS was never that!!!
>
Oh yes, it was. I recall that champagne corks popped when
systems went live in those days. These days they just "release"
all the contractors!
Cliff
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bill Gates looks like Mandark
Date: 06 Apr 1999 16:08:13 -0500
Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> Talks and acts like him too, except Bill's less intelligent. Bill says "and
-> now I will rule the world with my shitty OS, a ha ha! a ha ha ha!"
I like the spoof in "Tomorrow Never Dies".
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a
receipt.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: alt.computer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: question about memory design
Date: 7 Apr 1999 02:22:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:24:18 -0500,
A Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2 questions:
>
>Time to read x bits from memory in FPM, knowing the access time and cycle
>time, would be access time + (cycle time * x-1) right?
Ummm, no.
>How do you find the maximum amount of interleaving that can be done in a
>system with 6 memory modules, with specific amount of words in them?
What does this have to do with Linux? It is an entirely hardware issue.
Pick something like...
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
or a more relevant newsgroup.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LN03 module for Ghostscript ?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:34:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks... my problem was probably using Aladdin-GS 5.50 from Debian
2.1. When I went back to GNU GS 5.10 (also from Debian 2.1 !) I found
the ln03 filter. I wonder if "they" (Debian ? Aladdin ?) might not
have dropped the ln03 in 5.50.
In the meantime, I'd downloaded the source of 5.10, but I wasn't getting
very far with compiling it. The instructions for modifying the
makefiles are not trivial (I was getting stuck with JPEG library
versions).
Thanks again for your help.
Grant Taylor wrote:
> The ln03 driver is distributed with the gs sources. If you can't find
> a prebuilt Ghostscript with the ln03 driver, just built gs yourself.
>
> See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
--
===============================================================
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: <@worldonline.nl>
Subject: Emacs; is there a third way?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 08:32:26 GMT
Hello,
The distributions of Linux that I have used thus far
all claim that the X- and non-X versions of emacs
can not coexist; you either have the one or the other.
This presents a considerable problem to me and my wife;
she, due to her visual handicap is forced to use the non-X
version, whereas I use many Xwindows applications, and find
it therefore a nuisance to part with X-emacs.
Have any of you managed to install both versions side by side?
-- I am more than willing to rename the X version to Xmacs (X-mas??)
or something, but do not know if there are deeply hidden dependencies
in the system that need to be addressed first in order to achieve this.
Many thanks in advance
Hans Pelleboer
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From: Tom Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: RH5.0: I blew away my Glint and usercfg
Date: 07 Apr 1999 05:22:52 PDT
Hi. I have RH5.0. I downloaded the latest version (tar.gz) of Python
from python.org. Before installing it, I uninstalled the old Python
RPM. There were some dependencies including Glint and usercfg, so I had
to use the --nodeps switch. After installing the new Python and
changing the sym link in /usr/bin to point to the new Python, all the
apps that were dependent on the old Python RPM are now broken. So I
tried reinstalling the old Python RPM, but the apps are still broken.
Does anybody know why, and more importantly, how do I get those apps
working again with the new Python?
Thanks.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:29:25 +0100
"Efi Merdler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know that Melissa is a macro virus,therefore, it will not run under
> Linux,however ,we all know that sooner or later a virus will attack the
> Linux community, is the OS protected ?
There is nothing that an OS can do about application macro viruses.
If MS Office were ported to Linux it would still be vulnerable. If
another office suite had similar security holes then it would be
vulnerable. Likewise if you use security-hole-free office suite on
Windows then you would not be vulnerable.
> I read an article written by John C. Dvorak on PCMagazine
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/insites/dvorak/jd.htm
>
> he wrote:
> "...The real culprit here is Microsoft. The operating system has never been
> made virus-proof, and allowing macro capabilities in Word and Excel invites
> destructive code..."
All these statements are true, but the virus vulnerability of the OS
is a completely independant of the virus vulnerability of the
application software.
> Is Linux virus-proof because if not, it is just a matter of time and then
> Linux will get a very bad publicity.
Linux is not virus proof. Clearly good housekeeping can restrict the
risks. If you ever run any code of dubious origin as root then you
are taking a risk. Note: If you ever run dubious code any user then
any file writable by that user is immediately "dubious" too.
Unless you are prepared to accept the "trusted base" security model
you will sooner or later get a virus.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux with Win95/8
Date: 7 Apr 1999 12:26:46 GMT
In article <S8HO2.56726$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Graeme Fenwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've wanted to install Linux on my PC for a while now, and I figured that I
> should actually get round to doing it at some point...
> Thing is, I already have Windows 95 with FAT32 installed and I don't want to
> risk sacrificing that (I know how much you folks hate Windows, but...) or my
> existing data. AFAIK there's a freely-distributable partition utility that
> will work with FAT32- that's not the problem, the real trouble is that I
> don't have any way of backing up any of this data if the whole thing goes
> wrong. Granted, I should probably already have a way of backing up more data
> than I do just now, and I guess the problem could be solved by throwing
> money at it (expensive backup device). That's not a very attractive option
> for rather obvious reasons. Any thoughts?
For a first attempt, I would strongly reccommend that you acquire another
hard drive of a suitable size and install Linux on that. Boot into it with
LoadLin from the Win95 disk.
This allows you to get a full Linux install without messing about with the
Master Boot Record. Great for sorting things out and working out how it all
goes together.
I'd reckon you'd be fine with the SUSE 5.2 cover disk (PCPlus I presume?) for
starters. If you like what you see then upgrading to later versions of
everything can be done by spending good money on SuSE 6.0 (or 6.1 if you want
to wait a moment or two).
There maybe an upgrade possibility in the 6.0 install.. I think YaST can handle
it but someone else will fill you in on this.
every distro has its own peculiarities. I want to try the new Debian one
primarily because of the document processing tools it comes with. I am just
waiting for the chance to buy a new machine to put it on.
..d
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