Linux-Misc Digest #293, Volume #20 Fri, 21 May 99 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: SO51 Installation fails!! HELP!! (root)
Linux and ZyXel prestige isdn box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KPPP stops KDE working (Steve Nospam)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with
backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend) (Daniel Ts'o)
Re: Any problems upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6.0 ? (Bob Tennent)
RPM to see what package a file is in? (Sean Godsell)
Re: TTF fonts under Linux (Rod Smith)
Cannot access modem (Jason Bond)
Re: WordPerfect gunzip ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Audio file click removers for Linux (Robert Washburne)
Problems with HP 3100 Printer (Kevin Kelly)
LinuxHQ disappeared? (Johannes Rest)
Re: starting a new shell... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: prevent detection of 2nd HD (Chris Wilson)
Re: RPM to see what package a file is in? (Bob Tennent)
Re: Adding fonts to Wordperfect 8 (Karel Jansens)
Where is CPP in RH5.2 ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Alistair Cunningham)
DTP software anyone? (Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES)
Looking for Red Hat 6.0 Extra. (Timothy Stark)
Re: Cannot access modem (Jason Breitweiser)
Re: NT the best web platform? (John Hascall)
Re: Which version of Linux is best? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Audio file click removers for Linux (Rajappa Iyer)
Red Hat Linux on Sun Sparc IPX? (James Seymour)
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SO51 Installation fails!! HELP!!
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 06:23:20 -0400
Fred Kuipers wrote:
> Greetings, all:
>
> I just downloaded the (huge) so51 tarball. Unfortunately after the
> glibc2 compatiblity check message, I get the following messages and
> setup quits. What could be the problem. I'm running RH 5.9 (basically
> RH 6.0) with kernel 2.2.3:
>
> /tmp/sv001.tmp/startup.sh: /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin: No such file or
> directory
>
> Any suggestions as to why I get this message??
>
> FJK
What did the glibc2 message said?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux and ZyXel prestige isdn box
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:12:13 GMT
Does anyone know if any control software is available for the Prestige
100 line of ISDN routers on Linux
regards
Mike Wright
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From: nospam@nospam!.kom (Steve Nospam)
Subject: Re: KPPP stops KDE working
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:38:52 GMT
On Fri, 21 May 1999 09:15:10 +0100, "Ming98"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an atrocious problem with KPPP. I can connect ok and use some
>applications already launched but KDE is then otherwise 'locked down'. As
>soon as I drop the KPPP connection KDE springs into life. I have found no
>error messages.
>
>I am using Kernel 2.2.2.
>
I have experienced exactly the same problem with KDE 1.1 on Caldera OL
2.2. I am going to try the KDE 1.1.1 update to see if that helps; but
in the meantime, try setting up a new user account and don't use any
of the KDE themes. I found out that if I didn't choose any themes,
Kppp doesn't seem to cause this problem.
-Steve
*The only thing certain about the future is that it hasn't happened yet.*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Ts'o)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact
mgr with backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend)
Date: 21 May 1999 08:06:06 PDT
In article <7hoevs$vk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Gregory Bond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen E. Halpin) writes:
>
>: > page 26 of "UNIX Network Programming", by W. Richard Stevens
>: > (this was in 1990):
>: >
>: > System V restricts you to belong to a single group at a time.
>
>: Hmm, hard to argue with the source, but my first Unix box was a
>: V7-AUSAM system on a PDP-11/23 in 1985. [A whole Unix system, with
>
>I'm also pretty sure that my sun 360, in 1985, had groups to which I
>had to add myself.
>
>I think stevens may be referring to the unique group of the uid. The
>wording is not absolutely unambiguous for me!
>
>: ISTR that had multiple groups, although it may be that the AUSAM
>: people ported the idea from 4.1 BSD (which was current at the
>
>I don't recall the sun 360's os number? 3.9? I think it was just before
>the sun splitoff.
All of the above is correct. The original Unix including V6, V7,
System III and at least early System V only permitted one group membership
(gid) at a time. Groups were considered marginally useful because of this.
The designers of 4.2BSD sought to rectify this by allowing multiple
simultaneous group membership. So decendents of 4.2BSD have this feature,
including SunOS... which is the OS of the Sun 3/60.
Cheers,
Daniel Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave MS138, NY, NY 10021
212-327-7671, FAX: 212-327-7671
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Any problems upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6.0 ?
Date: 21 May 1999 12:09:48 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Fri, 21 May 1999 10:05:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am using RH5.2, and I have quite a lot of settings and programs
>installed. I want to upgrade to RH6.0 to get the new kernel, and latest
>version of all redhat-distributed programs/libraries I have installed.
>
>Can anybody tell me if this really work without problems, to choose
>upgrade and when done get a fresher system, with all apps and
>installations, like DNS, ISP, mailadress soundcardsetting and so all
>intact (apps naturally upgraded, if an upgrade is in RH6.0)?
>
I had a 5.2 system with many add-ons and upgrades. I upgraded
to 6.0 with very few problems. There are some bugs in
the initscripts that required a couple of single-user boots
to correct; I suggest uninstalling linuxconf before upgrading.
Be sure to go through the installation log and reconcile the old
and new configuration files. Of course YMMV.
Bob T.
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From: Sean Godsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM to see what package a file is in?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:36:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone help me with this problem that I am having with rpm.
I heard that you can find out what package a particular file is in,
using the rpm command. What I am looking for is the one line command
syntax. Not built into any shell scripts.
If anyone knows the syntax of the command to perform this action, I
would really be grateful.
I can view all packages installed on the system using rpm -qa
or find a particular file in a package using rpm -ql packagename | grep
filename
Maybe I am just getting too old, but I can't figure it out.
Signed Please help a desperate man
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: TTF fonts under Linux
Date: 21 May 1999 18:59:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tomas FRYDRYCH" <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> writes:
>
> Is it possible to use Windows TTF fonts on Linux? I am keen to
> leave the Windows platform, but I have tones of documents that
> use specialised ttf fonts, for which I am certain that I will not be
> able to get replacements. Is there any way that Win fonts can be
> used on Linux?
You can use TrueType fonts in Linux, but Linux doesn't have the same sort
of monolithic font system that Windows has, so you may need to use several
different solutions.
For on-screen font display in most X applications, you can use a version
of XFree86 with TrueType support compiled in (I'm not sure how common
these are just yet), or you can use a separate X font server application,
like xfsft or xfstt.
For printing with TrueType fonts, one link in the chain that may be useful
is to install your TrueType fonts in Ghostscript (if you're using a
non-PostScript printer). This isn't difficult; you just need to edit the
Fontmap file in the Ghostscript directory (usually
/usr/share/ghostscript/x.yy, where x.yy is the Ghostscript version
number).
Since you refer to documents, I assume you're talking about word
processor, spreadsheet, or some other sort of document format. Chances
are you'll need to configure your Linux word processor, spreadsheet, or
whatever to use the TrueType fonts. This may or may not be possible,
depending upon the program's design. I've got instructions on doing this
for ApplixWare on my web site at
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/fonts.html. It's not possible to
do this directly with WordPerfect, since it doesn't support TrueType
fonts, but you might be able to convert the fonts to Type 1 format and use
them, or find equivalent Type 1 fonts. I've got information on using font
with WordPerfect at http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/wpfonts.html.
I don't know about StarOffice or most other Linux word processors. The
GIMP will use the fonts that are installed in X, so you don't need
anything beyond configuring XFree86 to use the fonts for it.
In ALL cases, font names may be a problem. Depending upon how you do it
and what options you have available, you may or may not be able to get the
fonts to have the same names in both systems. You'll just have to try it
to find out. In some cases, you'll need to enter the font name yourself,
so you may want to write them down in Windows before you try installing
them in the various Linux font systems.
--
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot access modem
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:16:53 -0700
When I try and run minicom as a user I get this:
(jbond@blah: ~) minicom
minicom: cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied
and the permissions of /dev/modem are:
(jbond@blah: ~) ls -l /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root uucp 4 Apr 24 18:54 /dev/modem ->
cua2
Is there something I need to change? Thanks much,
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WordPerfect gunzip
Date: 21 May 1999 13:06:04 GMT
In his obvious haste, Jeff Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: I downloaded Corel WP8 (guilg00.gz) and when I try to gunzip I get the
: message "not in gzip format". I clicked on "download now" and
: downloaded the file. After the download was complete I saved the file
: to a temporary directory for unzipping. This process has worked for
: other ".gz / tar.gz" files. I don't understand the problem I'm having
: with Corel. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.
Try
tar -tvf guilg00.gz
There's a chance it might not be gzipped after all...
(I've heard of SOMETHING similar....)
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From: Robert Washburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio file click removers for Linux
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:45:30 -0400
Greetings!
I would like to digitize my old vinyl records and burn them to CD-ROM.
The software is all there to format the tracks and burn the CD. Thank
you J"org.
But it would be nice to filter out the "clicks" caused by dust and
scratches. There is software out there for Windoze costing a mere
$400-$750. Or I could get a $40 shareware program to visually edit the
file by hand.
Does anyone know of similar software, even the simple graphical editor
kind, available for Linux?
Thanks in advance!
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From: Kevin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with HP 3100 Printer
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:42:34 GMT
Anybody out there using an HP 3100 Printer. This is actually a=20
multifunction unit (print, fax, scan and copy). The software/drivers=20
included were for NT/95/98 (suprise..suprise). I am using RedHat 5.2=20
and cannot get any docs to print out. I have printed to other HP=20
laserjets in the past 4/5/6 but can't get this HP 3100 to work. =20
Kevin
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From: Johannes Rest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: LinuxHQ disappeared?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:14:12 +0200
Hi!
I've noticed that one of my favourite web-links isn't available
any more: www.linuxhq.com. I've used this link to track
the kernel versions 2.2.x and now I do not know where
I can find the current development resources/kernel versions.
What happened to LinuxHQ? Is there any comparable site
with the high quality information LinuxHQ provided?
Thanks in advance
Johannes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: starting a new shell...
Date: 21 May 1999 12:58:15 GMT
In his obvious haste, Oliver Gebele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: hello everyone,
: on the local system i can't change the login-shell
: (via chsh, too bad)
: so i'd like to start the tcsh from .login
: and terminate the old shell automatically.
: how do i do this?
Have you tried chsh?
(CHange SHell)
It's available on a lot of systems and is one of the easiest ways of
changing your default shell...
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From: Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: prevent detection of 2nd HD
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 20:30:29 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How can I prevent Linux (or Windows, for that matter) from knowing about
> the 2nd hard disk? I would like it to stay spun down, but every now and
> then linux accesses it for whatever reason. (Windows does too.) The OS
> is RH5.2.
If you want to prevent the kernel from ever knowing about the drive,
then pass it the following option on boot-up
hdb=noprobe
(hdb should be replaced with the actual device you wish to hide)
Alternatively you can search out which program is touching the drive and
spinning it up.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: RPM to see what package a file is in?
Date: 21 May 1999 19:43:18 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Fri, 21 May 1999 15:52:25 -0400, Sean Godsell wrote:
>
>I heard that you can find out what package a particular file is in. sing
>the rpm command.
rpm -qf filepath
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Reply-To: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net
Subject: Re: Adding fonts to Wordperfect 8
Date: 21 May 1999 13:35:17 GMT
On Fri, 21 May 1999 02:31:54, "jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I add other fonts to the limited ones that come with the downloaded
> version of Wordperfect 8?
>
You can't.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_ibm_dot_net
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Having a kid at sixty, that's an accident.
Having a piano fallen on your head, that's just bad luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Where is CPP in RH5.2 ?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:33:47 GMT
Which rpm contains the cpp ?
I get complaints that is is not installed, when upgrading to windowmaker
0.52, but I cant figure out where it is .
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From: Alistair Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.help,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: 21 May 1999 20:29:19 GMT
In uk.comp.os.linux Erik Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't exactly say 4Front has "gained the good will of the Open
> source community". It is my belief from what I read that most of the
> Linux community that cares about audio holds 4Front in contempt.
Did I say that it had? No. If you go back and read what I wrote, I said
that if you GPL, you will gain that good will. On the other hand you
could go the route of 4Front. I quite clearly changed the subject in
between - hence the new paragraph.
I agree totally that the Linux community doesn't like 4Front - hence
ALSA (as I said that if you don't go GPL, someone will make a GPL
clone)
> IMO Apple was trying to pay lip service to the Open Source crowd and their
> attempt back fired. The lesson learned here is any commercial open source
> initative had better be genuine.
Agreed. Better to be totally commercial than 'lip service' open source.
> Now why is allowing "distributions to include your program" a good thing?
* Large market penetration.
* Free (to you) ports to new architectures/kernels/libc versions/etc.
* Free creation of install scripts, auxiliary programs, etc.
* For Debian, a dedicated maintainer, who will feed you updates, bug
fixes, etc.
* Again for Debian, the bug reporting system
(http://www.debian.org/Bugs/)
* If you've a good enough accountant, it could be tax deductible.
Why do think Corel, and another large company (who I'm not allowed
to name at present), are so keen to create distributions based on
Debian?
> The GNU people are afraid of license dilution.
After the QT fiasco, are you surprised? Although QT is now sort-of
free, it's license is going to continue to give us problems.
> .... the GPL license is
> becoming synonymous with Linux.
What's wrong with that? Linux is, after all, released under the GPL,
and is the most famous product to do so.
Alistair Cunningham.
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Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:31:52 +0000
From: Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DTP software anyone?
Hi,
I'm trying to convince my Dad that Linux is a good idea. He's getting
close to accepting it, but I just need to find some desktop publishing
software for him. Does anyone have any suggestions? He's currently using
Serif Page Plus.
Thanks!
Paul
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From: Timothy Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for Red Hat 6.0 Extra.
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:09:46 GMT
Hello Folks:
I am looking for Red Hat 6.0 Extra package. I was surfed through some web
sites that sell products for Red Hat Linux platforms. I can't find "Red
Hat 6.0 Extra" that contains a library of PowerTools itself but they sells
regular version of "Red Hat 6.0". Only I found one web site
(http://www.linuxmall.com) that sell "Red Hat 6.0 Extra" but full price
(not discounted).
Does anyone have any information about any vendors that willfully accept
pre-orders for Red Hat 6.0 Extra?
Thank you!
-- Tim Stark
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whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Amen." -- John 3:16 (King James Version Bible)
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From: Jason Breitweiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot access modem
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 20:17:58 GMT
Try linking /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS2. Its currently linked to
/dev/cua2, which is the old way. Some distros do not use this method
anymore.
Jason
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I try and run minicom as a user I get this:
>
> (jbond@blah: ~) minicom
> minicom: cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied
>
> and the permissions of /dev/modem are:
>
> (jbond@blah: ~) ls -l /dev/modem
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root uucp 4 Apr 24 18:54 /dev/modem ->
> cua2
>
> Is there something I need to change? Thanks much,
>
> Jason
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hascall)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 21 May 1999 20:22:06 GMT
Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hascall) writes:
}>Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}>}[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benoit Goudreault-Emond) writes:
}>}>Then again, NT caches files as well, so the OS cache should be about
}>}>equivalent.
}
}>}In fact, the OS is really the thing that knows the best about caching and
}>}that is by far best suited to cache things.
}
}>}In more complex and more real world situations, when you have to
}>}have a balance between various uses of memory, larger data sets, etc.
}>}that is what a good VM system does for you. In addition, it lets you
}>}more easily (in some cases) avoid copys when doing IO if it is from
}>}kernel memory to the network.
}
}> Well, on 'any decent' system there is scant difference between
}> pages cached by the buffer cache and pages the application
}> has cache (e.g., in malloc'd or mmap'd space).
}
}Incorrect. If it is in the kernel's memory then it can, aside from
}being shared, also do copy avoidance in some situations on some platforms.
}That can be a real win in some situations.
Huh, applications can share memory (in the case of thttpd,
which is what I was using, this is a moot point, since it
is a single process). Is there something other than HP-UX
which has this copy-avoidance kluge?
}> The difference being you save time and cycles if the app
}> caches it because the OS has to do less work (e.g. path
}> chasing, access checking, etc).
}
}Not really if you already have the descriptor open.
(as I mention in the my very next sentence)
}>}Now, you still can use a cache (eg. file descriptor cache), but caching
}>}the data isn't necessarily the thing to do.
}
}> FD caching (esp, if the underlying I/O system is good)
}> may well get you most of the way there.
}
}> However, in my profiling of my modified version of
}> thttpd, I discovered that the hot spots were all
}> essentially loops like:
}
}> for (fd = 0; fd < maxfd; ++fd) {
}> /* do something */
}> }
}
}> so keeping maxfd's down seems like 'a good thing'.
}
}You need to have both an OS that can handle large numbers of
}open descriptors in a process efficiently (many don't yet) and be
}sure your application deals with it well.
Right. One of things I'm looking at is trying out:
tempfd = open(request->filename, ...);
fd = nextFreeHighFD();
dup2(tempfd, fd);
close(tempfd);
to segregate the socket fds from the other fds, so that
select() has a more compact range of fd's to look over.
I also wonder how to deal with keepalive effectively.
Without keepalive, typically, only the accept socket
a brand-newly-accepted sockets need selecting -- that
is once you accept a connection, typically you select
it only once, you read the request getting the whole
request, and that's it -- you could dup2() the fd up
out of the way for writing. With keepalive, you've
got this wad of idle sockets bloating your select array.
John
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which version of Linux is best?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:37:32 +0100
On Fri, 21 May 1999, a 406 Hepcat wrote:
> I'm a prosepective Lunux user and a multimedia (mainly pro-audio)
> producer and engineer. I'm using BeOS, but I'm also interested in
> Linux to (almost) completely relplace my Windoze systems. There are
> plenty of commercial versions of Linux out there to choose from (Red
> Hat, Open Linux, etc.), but which one is the best for what I want. Are
> the only differences the GUIs, or do they go deeper. I'm expecting a
> lot of responses to this, so don't let me down.
You need to consider available applications not the specific
distribution. If there are no applications that meet your needs then
Linux is a waste of time. If your after support for exotic sound hardware
or advanced sound appications you may be disapointed
David
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From: Rajappa Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio file click removers for Linux
Date: 21 May 1999 16:03:34 -0400
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Robert Washburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know of similar software, even the simple graphical editor
> kind, available for Linux?
Check out gramofile.
http://cardit.et.tudelft.nl/~card06/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Seymour)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Red Hat Linux on Sun Sparc IPX?
Date: 21 May 1999 19:58:16 GMT
I'm looking to set up a "low-intensity" web/ftp server. I have a spare
Sun Sparc IPX with 2gb Connor drive, 64mb, and the Weitek upgrade in
it.
I'm wondering if I can run Red Hat Linux 6.0 on the thing (along with
the other necessary stuff such as Apache, anon FTP, ht/Dig, Perl, GCC,
etc.). Anybody care to report their experiences with RH Sparc Linux?
The Compaq 850R we have presently doing the same thing has been the
epitome of reliability. Can I expect the same level of reliability?
Any caveats?
Thanks,
Jim
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