Linux-Misc Digest #920, Volume #18 Sat, 6 Feb 99 00:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Newbie (David Steuber)
Re: Suggestions for new Linux Fortran compiler (Greg Lindahl)
Re: IntelliMouse problem with XFree86 ("Jim Ross")
Re: Can I copy a CD to mutltiple CD-R's at the same time ? ("J. S. Jensen")
Re: Can I copy a CD to mutltiple CD-R's at the same time ? (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Only one browser for linux? (David Efflandt)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Colin Day)
Color in Midnight Commander (RHS Linux User)
Re: No Color in Midnight Commander or SLRN (ekihn)
Re: Library Problems (Matthew W Miller)
command line ftp to download files plus sub directories? ("stephen")
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? (Timothy J. Lee)
DSL and Linux help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2.2.1 and performance. (David Steuber)
Re: mounting a SCSI JAZ drive (Bill Wangard)
Re: use theramin as input device (John Thompson)
Re: linux boot meltdown!! (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Linux on a Toshiba Portege 7010? ("Michael D. Schleif")
Re: Savage 3d video drivers??? ("gm")
Re: Time Server Clients (Mario Moder)
Linux Newbie ("TWK")
Re: [Help] Need to implement SSL (Andrew Daviel)
Re: 2.2.1 and performance. ("David A. Frantz")
Re: how to learn linux? (Seth Van Oort)
Re: Looking for Help... (vi and memory) (Ben Russo)
PPP question ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers ("Keith G. Murphy")
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie
Date: 05 Feb 1999 20:42:55 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-> Come one, come all. If your interested in Linux your in the right place.
-> Post your questions and yee will be answered.
->
-> PS Make sure you read as much documentation on Linux as human'ly possible.
And then read some more :-)
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
When will Altoids be available in 'extra strength'?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Lindahl)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Suggestions for new Linux Fortran compiler
Date: 5 Feb 1999 17:57:41 GMT
Wood Lotz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Absoft markets F77 and Pro Fortran [F90/F77 suite] for Linux/Intel.
But are you ever going to publish SPEC95fp benchmark results so we
have any clue how good the code you generate is?
-- greg
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From: "Jim Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IntelliMouse problem with XFree86
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:39:56 -0500
Wael Sedky wrote in message ...
>In comp.os.linux.misc jackle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Do I understand from this that you can actually use the wheel?
>
>Thanks
Yes. Imwhell will do the job.
Also QT 2.0 is also said to have support.
Works fine.
Jim
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From: "J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I copy a CD to mutltiple CD-R's at the same time ?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:36:22 -0700
John Auld wrote:
> I use mkisofs and cdrecord ...
Since I've not exactly used cdrecord, does cdrecord just take an isofs
image and dump it to the CDR device? I've used dd in the past to dump it
to a device.
> Is there any software or command line tricks that can be used to write
> to many CD-R drives at once ?
Since I'm here taking a stab, try this:
export bs=<whatever_block_size_and_further_options>
dd if=image bs=${bs} |
tee >(dd of=dev1 ${bs}) |
tee >(dd of=dev2 ${bs}) |
... |
dd of=devN ${bs}
Replace `dd' with cdrecord if it takes stdin and one can specify the
output device. the >() construct is a bash process substitution
mechanism, and you can just tee out the data into each respective device.
This is /all/ dependent on the I/O speed of your computer. I just don't
exactly know, sorry.
--
J. S. Jensen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.Paramin.COM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Can I copy a CD to mutltiple CD-R's at the same time ?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 21:43:48 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Auld <> wrote:
>I use mkisofs and cdrecord in a commercial environment for creating
>software CD's for Windows and Unix cutsomers, but I can only use this
>software to create CD's one at a time.
>
>I have a need to create multiple copies from image files, which can
>only be done at the moment on an unreliable Windows machine. This uses
>software to write to eight CD-R's at a time, and so it must also be
>possible on Linux.
>
>Is there any software or command line tricks that can be used to write
>to many CD-R drives at once ?
What happens if you just run more copies of cdrecord writing the same
image to different drives? You can do this from multiple xterm
windows, vt's, or if you don't mind the screen output being jumbled
by running each command line in the background with a '&' so you
can repeat it immediately. There may be some limit to the number
of drives you can deliver data to at writing speed, but otherwise
I don't see why the programs would affect each other. (I only have
one writer so I can try it myself).
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Only one browser for linux?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:46:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/5/99, 2:59:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Only one=20
browser for linux?:
> In his obvious haste, Marco Tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled =
thusly:
> : Why does there only seem to be netscape that is usuable in Linux. =20
Given
> : the variety of software available, I find it pretty amazing that I
> : can't find a decent browser.
> : Arena is terrible, I know KDE has a built in browser, but where is =
the
> : Opera of the Linux world? Small and Beautiful?
> Arena is still in the developement stage, isn't it?
I think Arena development has ceased or moved from the orignal=20
developers to the guy who does Slackware. It used to be included with=20
most Linux distributions, but never did work with any of them (core=20
dumped frequently).
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From: Colin Day <[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: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:57:13 +0000
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Colin Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Jim Ross wrote:
>
> > > help me there. PPP works in Windows, in Linux for me it does not. Maybe I
> > > could do even more to fix it, but the need is why Linux is not ready. I do
> > > not want to have to troubleshoot it. I shouldn't have to.
> > > Jim
> >
> > OK PPP was easier for me to set up in Windows 95 than in Linux. Of course,
> > I had four or five ISP's include their setup programs on Windows 95, so it's
> > not the fairest comparison. Did you have to type in scripts for PPP in
> > Windows, or were the programs included?
>
> that's weird. i had a bit of trouble setting up ppp in linux
> (slackware), but i read the howto and after that things have been very
> smooth. redhat's netcfg made setting up ppp fairly easy too. but at
> the cost of figuring out a slew of wacky scripts in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts when i wanted to climb in under the
> hood.
>
I managed to get ppp on Linux by using some scripts from my ISP,
but before then I had trouble configuring PPP
>
> i never did manage to get ppp to work in windows despite several
> afternoons of trying. i have no idea what i was missing or how to add
> it since all have is an oem disk and i need to blow away windows and
> reinstall every time i want to read anything from it.
>
That is an annoyance with OEM disks. Did it include DUN setup.exe's
from ISP, or did you already have an ISP?
>
> microsoft windows is often easy to learn. it is easy but somewhat
> tedious to use. however, when windows fails you are SOL. that is
> what is wrong with windows.
>
Yep, I have two modems (the internal modem was a winmodem),and
two phone lines. But can I have the modems at different phone numbers?
It appears not, Dialing Properties insists on having them share a phone
number.
>
> --
> johan kullstam
Colin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RHS Linux User)
Subject: Color in Midnight Commander
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:03:33 GMT
Sorry if anyone read my previous post about this question.
I solved the problem after reading my own post. I realized it must
have something to do with my environment variables. Lo and behold
I had changed my TERM variable from "linux" to "vt100" so that I
could use PINE when telnetting to my ISP. (Otherwise it would give
me this annoying error "unknown terminal type".)
Thanks to anyone who read it or thought about the problem.
Cheers!
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From: ekihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Color in Midnight Commander or SLRN
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:00:14 -0700
Hello,
It seem pretty likely you have 'mc' aliased to 'mc -c'in the root
login. Try and 'alias' and see. If not it's simple to alias mc to mc -c
in individual user
account or across the board.
Ciao
RHS Linux User wrote:
>
> When I start mc or slrn as a user, there is only black and white.
> When I start mc as root there is color.
> When I su (as root) to any user, and run mc there is color.
> When I su -l (a login shell with path etc) and run mc there is NO color.
>
> I can FORCE color in mc by starting it with 'mc -c' but I used to
> be able to get color automatically without forcing it.
>
> Can anyone think of what might be happening? I can't remember changing
> anything really significant.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help posted to the group.
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From: Matthew W Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Library Problems
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:44:48 -0500
Actually, it was downloaded directly onto the linux system itself, which
is one reason why i am so puzzled by the results :/
~Matt
On 5 Feb 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Matthew W Miller wrote:
> >This is for a RH linux 5.2 system; when trying to install libpcap, i get
> >numerous errors which require me to force the uncompress and it also
> >breaks the tar pipe when the -v flag is set.
>=20
> That looks like a corrupted tar.gz distribution file, perhaps downloaded =
as
> "text" under DOS/Win?
> --=20
> Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED]=
cl
> Casilla 9G, Vi=F1a del Mar, Chile +56 32 67=
2616
>=20
>=20
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| suspect my years? O that he were here to write ||
| me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am ||
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From: "stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: command line ftp to download files plus sub directories?
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 02:00:45 -0800
Hello:
Is there a ftp command to download multiple
files plus sub directories? As in fetch an entire
directory structure and it's contents.
"mget" only gets the top level files and complains
about sub directories. Example:
| -- file_a
|
| -- file_b
|
| -- dir_1
| |
| | -- file_c
| |
| | -- file_d
|
| -- dir_2
|
| -- file_e
|
| -- file_f
I can't get file c, d, e and f using "mget".
I can however "mget" file c, d, e and f only
if I make the sub directories ahead of time
on the receiving computer. This is not practical
with a long directory tree.
Thanks in advance.
Stephen
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:34:23 GMT
"Javier Pulido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|Problems with the booting of linux in a computer AMD K6-2 (300 MHz) with
|i430TX (no AGP) and 128 MB, two hard drives and 1 CDROM. Can you help me?
Does an "i430TX" motherboard support a 300 MHz K6-2 processor and
128 MB of RAM?
--
========================================================================
Timothy J. Lee timlee@
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DSL and Linux help
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:07:59 GMT
I'm having a little trouble setting up my DSL in Linux. The ethernet card is
a 3com 3C905-TX, Linux picked up with no problem. I have a couple question
abut some configurations. I read the Net3 how to and just got totally
confused. I would appreciate any help. 1. The host name (my.isp.net) I
understand the last two, isp.net, however the first part is throwing me. Do I
have to register that with my ISP. For instance athena.isp.net. Do I just
choose a random name, similar to a name one chooses for Windows machines? 2.
I have my IP address, Gateway, Subnet, and DNS numbers, which were enough to
get my windows machine up and going. I'm assuming these are the same on
Linux, but what is interface IP? and what is the difference between the host
IP address and the interface ip address? And what is a Broadcast IP address,
I've never heard of that before, sorry I'm migrating from windows please
don't hold it against me =)
Again thanks in advance
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 and performance.
Date: 05 Feb 1999 20:38:10 -0500
"David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> I've seen gains even on my laptop with 24 meg of ram. This is really
-> excellent. My question is has anyone successfully targeted something
-> other than i386? In other words has anyone attempted to compile for i586
-> or 686. I could imagine great performance increases by do that. Its
-> like my old laptop has been reborn.
I built my kernel for the 686. Works fine for both 2.0.35 and 2.2.1.
I haven't tried with other software. That's a lot to go building. I
guess I'm just to lazy to do that.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
When will Altoids be available in 'extra strength'?
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From: Bill Wangard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting a SCSI JAZ drive
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:26:24 -0700
ezjab,
Jaz drives come from the factory set up in "read-only" mode (which makes
no sense). You need software to make it able to write. This software
(from Iomega) is available for Mac and PC only. They don't support there
hardware for unix machines. Boneheads!
Anyway... Lucky for us, someone has written a program to save the day.
Bob Willmot has written jaztool, which allows you to control the
read/write mode of the drive with a simple command.
This program is available from
ftp://grashof.engr.colostate.edu/pub
as a tar-gzipped distribution.
Compile it on your machine and change the mode of the jaz drive.
Then insert a jaz disk.
I think you are okay at this point if you want the disk msdos formatted?
I didn't try. I wanted ext2! So I
repartitioned it and used mke2fs..... Here's how.
fdisk /dev/sd*
Where * is the appropriate letter
While in fdisk, you will notice that you are partitioning the 4th
partition on the drive. I don't know why this is the case, but it doesn't
seem to matter. When I print the partition table, I get
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb4 * 1 1021 1045488 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Then use mke2fs to make an ext2 filesystem (format) the jaz disk
Then you can mount the drive as normal
cd /
mkdir jaz
mount /dev/sd*4 jaz
You may want to add a line to your /etc/fstab file. My entry was
/dev/sdb4 /jaz ext2 defaults 0
0
Good luck.
--Bill
ezjab wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm reposting because I did not see any responses in the newsgroup, nor
> did I see my post.
>
> I have a SCSI JAZ drive that I would like to mount, but I'm not sure
> which device, i.e. /dev/???, to use when formating and mounting
> the JAZ drive. Can anyone advise me how to do this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Jim Anderson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:25:54 -0600
Jehan Sappideen wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.development.system Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : No. He means the wailing thing that goes "wee-ooo-wee-ooo" in
> : _Good_Vibrations_ by the Beach Boys.
>
> : SCNR
>
> As a point of trivia.... I read somewhere recently that it wasn't
> actually a true theremin making that sound... just a hardware emulation -
> maybe they'll sue ;). The guts were the same, but it was just a guy
> twiddling a knob to get the sound.
Maybe so, but the British Group "the Bonzo Dog Band" used a
real theramin in their concerts and recordings. One fellow
even played it with his leg to good efect... :-)
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: linux boot meltdown!!
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:52:14 GMT
In article <79f6ba$rf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Help!!! My linux 2.0.27 is suddenly booting my root directory as
>read-only!! I "accidently" changed my BIOS setting for my hard disk
>and re-booted. I got a bunch of "04"'s scrolling across my screen. I
>switched back my hard disk parameters in BIOS and linux started to
>boot with my root directory as read only. Which makes working difficult when
>you only have a swap partition and a /tmp filesystem. Essentially everying
>not in /tmp is read-only!! ARGHH!!!
... the Linux "user messes around with BIOS settings self defense driver" ....
>
>The boot process also starts to encounter errors (becuase of the read-only
>/ filesytem). When booting there are error messages (which don't show up in
>dmesg output) that the system can't find ulimit and can't find export. And
>I've even lost my system name on my login prompt!!
... strange, since there should be something like this ...
mount -w -n -o remount [/dev/...] /
... somewhere. Mind the -n and do it on the shell level (-n means do not
try to write /etc/mtab).
[...]
>Is my hard drive hosed??
I guess not, but skim through /etc and take a look at /lost+found whether
something is there. It really sounds rather like some init script is not
in good shape anymore.
[...]
>After downloading tomsrtbt (Tom's root/boot) I did a e2fsck on my
>partitions, hda1 (/), hda3 (/tmp). hda1 and hda3 came back with zero dates
>on inodes errors and were corrected. A second run of e2fsck came back with
>no problems on either filesystem.
Very good, no reason to panic, stay calm else you might really do something
wrong. Unices are pretty robust systems.
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on a Toshiba Portege 7010?
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:59:30 -0600
I don't know why; but, the following is *substantially* more current ;)
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> All your laptop needs:
>
> http://temp.redhat.com/linux-info/laptop/
>
> -chad
> >
> > has anybody experiences with Linux on a Toshiba Portege 7010?
> > I wonder if there are problems with the CD Rom drive because it's only in
> > the docking station.
> > Does the internal modem work?
> >
> > There are a lot of questions. Perhaps somebody is willing to help me and
> > the other readers.
--
Best Regards,
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888.250.3987
"Dare to fix things before they break . . . "
"Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we
think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . "
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From: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] REMOVE NOSPAM to reply>
Subject: Re: Savage 3d video drivers???
Reply-To: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] remove NO_SPAM to reply>
Date: 4 Feb 1999 17:41:35 -0600
I believe the X server for this is XF86_VGA16, a generic driver.
The chip is listed on the latest release of XFree86, 3.3.3.1
I had read that there is work in progress for a driver that
will take advantage of more capabilities of this chip, so
you could check at
http://www.XFree86.org
regards,
gm
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From: Mario Moder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time Server Clients
Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:27:44 GMT
Tim Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running RH 5.2 did any kind of Time Server client come with this
> release, and if not what is available to use to sync my server's time up
> with and Internet time server.
Works for me:
netdate TIMESERVER
Mario
--
AS LONG AS THERE IS LIFE THERE IS HOPE FOR AN END
(Dismal Euphony)
My Homepage: http://www.fbam.baynet.de/~moderm/
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From: "TWK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:29:03 -0600
Can anyone recommend a NG(s) for those interesting in learning more about
Linux, starting with the basics? I ended up in this ng because it seems well
populated compared to others.
Thanks..........Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Daviel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: [Help] Need to implement SSL
Date: 5 Feb 1999 00:55:55 GMT
Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: All,
: I neeed to implement SSL in a server that I have. I wrote the code for
: the server and need
: to add a Secure Socket Layer to it. I'm looking for a good description
: of how the protocol works
: and any examples I can get.
: Thank you,
http://www.free.lp.se/ssleay/ etc.
--
Deniable unless digitally signed
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 and performance.
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:55:25 -0500
Guys;
I've seen gains even on my laptop with 24 meg of ram. This is really
excellent. My question is has anyone successfully targeted something
other than i386? In other words has anyone attempted to compile for i586
or 686. I could imagine great performance increases by do that. Its
like my old laptop has been reborn.
EGCS can do i486 the question is how much of an additional benefit would one
get by going to the pentium compiler? Beyond the kernel which library
should be optimized next? My goal is to make my laptop with its 133 Mhz
processor perfrom like my desk top unit. Thats a stretch considering the
Desktop runs at 333mhz but it is hampered by NT.
Dave
Brian mitchell wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>gus wrote:
>>
>> I installed / compiled kernal 2.2.1 over the weekend, and have noticed a
>> performance gain in orders of magnitude over the 2.0.36 I was running.
>> Is this normal ;-)
>>
>> Seriously, X is flying, Compile seems to be quicker, although I have no
>> benchmarks, and generally I feel I get better response. My major thing
>> is Netscape. I had it loading in about 10 seconds b4 the upgrade, and it
>> now loads in a couple seconds. I have a mostly SCSI PII400 w/ 192M.
>>
>> I was not expecting such a performance change, and although pleasantly
>> surprised, I would like to know if this is expected, and why? Is there
>> some hardware which is better used?
>>
>> gus
>
>I have noticed the same. - Dual PII300 w 128M - Around 50% faster at a
>guess.
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to learn linux?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 01:45:29 +0000
Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini. And to save you the trouble,
the full source for his examples are at
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/linux/drivers mentioned on page 11 of the
book (I didn't think this was mentioned in the most visible place). A
lot of the examples really don't make sense without the full source.
Also look at Documentation/kernel-docs.txt in the source of 2.2.1.
Seth
���¼� wrote:
>
> I and my friends have plan to study about Linux.
> We are going to analysis code of kernel.
> Could you recommend good book to study?
> could you tell me where i can find good source?
> I am really new to linux.
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for Help... (vi and memory)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:55:59 -0500
Zhiruo Cao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have too questions. First, I cann't use mouse to cut and paste in
> Vi. Vi always interprets the mouse click as some special command, and
> switches to the command mode.
>
> Now the second problem. After I've brought up Netscape (3.0) and used
> it for a while, I can see the free memory shrinks (by free command).
> The problems is after a while, I could not start any application at
> all. Even I quit the netscape, the memory does not seem to be returned.
> And when I start a new application, the program just stalls there, giving no
> response.
>
> I'm running afterstep window manager, slackware 2.0, and Linux 2.0.36.
>
> Any anyone give me some help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zhiruo
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This was a very common problem when people were using those libc versions
and netscape.
There were hundreds of web-pages that told a user how to get specific versions
of libc to fix a malloc bug and how to set their LD_LIBRARY_PATH to that
directory while running netscape to avoid the mem leak.
Search the web with "Linux" "Netscape" "<netscape version number>"
and "malloc". Try:
http://www.enmu.edu/~moorej/cis/java/Howto-2.html
It isn't directly related to your problem, but has a link to the malloc lib,
and instructions
on how to set your LD_LIB stuff.
-Ben.
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP question
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:45:07 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's a quickie. When I dial into my ISP using RedHat 5.2 and the
control-panel to activate my connection, the response I get back from
their USR chassis interrupts the chat login script that comes with the
official RH 5.2 setup. Is there any way to suppress the message coming
back from the modems at the ISP?
Thanks.
KJ
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From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:01:20 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kinkster wrote:
>
> On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:10:48 -0600, "Keith G. Murphy"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Kinkster wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:51:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Excellent post. It should be required reading for all the m$ofites out
> >> there.
> >
> >Please don't quote a whole long post just to say you liked it. Bad
> >Usenetiquette, you know.
>
> If you don't like it just don't read it.
It's not got a thing to do with whether I liked it. Mostly agreed with
it, in fact.
It's wasted bandwidth on the 'Net to quote it like that. Not to mention
that I've had to download the whole thing again just to read that you
liked it. Seriously, I'm not trying to be a butt, I'm trying to turn
you on to a little Usenet etiquette.
>
> >
> >[cut] [see what I'm doing? Cuts down on the redundancy]
> >> >If Microsoft wants to create a proprietary Internet, I don't suppose there is
> >> >anything wrong with that, aside from the fact that it would be horrible.
> >
> >I had to laugh at that.
>
> Do you laugh at the truth often? Are you naive and think m$ has
> invested millions of dollars and taken on the DoJ and 19 states to
> give you a FREE product with _NO_ thoughts of getting that money and
> more back in some way ??
"I don't suppose there is anything wrong with that, aside from the fact
that it would be horrible." Nope, nothing funny about that phrase...
;-)
For the record:
I *do* laugh at the truth often. Keeps me from crying.
I don't *think* I'm naive, but then, naive people rarely think that they
are...
No, I don't think MS has invested all that money with no thoughts of
getting it back.
Sheesh.
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