Linux-Misc Digest #405, Volume #20 Sat, 29 May 99 16:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Modem sharing? (NEWS)
Port scanner (NEWS)
Help changing video drive (NEWS)
Re: How to Stay Online - (NEWS)
Re: Curious result from 2 (NEWS)
Maestro Driver ? (NEWS)
OPTi 925 (NEWS)
Re: Linux or linux? (NEWS)
Re: word processing, what (NEWS)
Screenshots from X Desktop (Achim Schmidt)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Andy Smart")
Help setting timezone ("Christopher R. Carlen")
Hp Deskjet 710C (NEWS)
Re: Linux or linux? (NEWS)
Threading (NEWS)
Linux switching time (NEWS)
Re: Commercially speaking (NEWS)
Re: Commercially speaking (NEWS)
Re: ***Amateur Radio Site (NEWS)
Re: Application/PDF in Ne (NEWS)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] how to run? (Kelly)
Seti@Home 'TKSETI' GUI Front end (Kelly)
Re: "tcp/:7100" Not available ??? (Ray)
Re: Offline newsreader for Linux ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: starting a new shell... (Andrew)
Re: Help setting timezone (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Rechte :-( ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: KDE vs. GNOME ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: starting a new shell... (Paul Kimoto)
How to install files with RPM extension??????? (Beed)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Phoebe)
WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux Registration Number. (Stan Ding Water)
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem sharing?
Date: 28 May 1999 04:17 GMT
I'm assuming that you want to share an internet connection here...
if that is true, than what you want to do is setup IP Masqurading, and get
the newest IP chains software. There are various HOWTOs out there on
setting it up. You can get IPchains off of www.freshmeat.net.
Also you should probably grab masqdialer. Masqdialer will let you dial the
modem on your Linux box from any other computer on your network. There are
clients for masqdialer for just about every OS out there...it's pretty
easy to set up too. Again you can get masqdialer off of www.freshmeat.net.
Just use the search engine at the top of the page...if you have any
questions, feel free to email me.
cheers,
Mike
Samuel AU ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is it possible to share a modem in a Linux base network? If yes, how
> to?
> Thanks in advance.
> Samuel
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Port scanner
Date: 27 May 1999 18:32 GMT
Okay, dumb questions and I'm sure I already know the answer. We have a
customer who wants to have a static IP address, but we are concerned
that he would try to run a server on his side and with a simple dial-up
account, that falls into a different payment bracket. To make sure that
he doesn't run a server on his end and stays compliant with the
agreement, I'd like to know a useful port scanner application out there
that would check the ports on an IP address. A GUI interface would work
well, but it doesn't have to be GUI.
Thanks.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help changing video drive
Date: 27 May 1999 13:47 GMT
As you can tell I am very new to Linux. I originally had a 2MB S3 video
card in my Linux machine. I have up graded it to a 4MB S3 video card.
How do I change the driver? Currently, I am difficulty exiting X
Windows and my boss thought it might be due to the new video card. When
Linux starts up, no problem, all the words seem fine. If I go to X
Windows everything is still fine, even in XTerm. But once I exit from X
Windows, all the words on the screen are "garbled" up. The letters are
out of order but linux is still working fine. If I type telnet or
startx, those respective programs run fine. If I use telnet it will
work however the words are still garbled. If I return to X Windows then
evrything is fine, even in XTerm, until I exit again. So the only way
for me to work in a true linux environment without X Windows, is when I
first start up. I apoligize for the length of this message and will
truely appreciate any advise on my problem, be it a video driver or not.
Thanks,
Mike B.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online -
Date: 26 May 1999 22:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short) writes:
>0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * ping -c 3 <someIP> >/dev/null
>2>&1
Have you ever used the -I option of ping?
73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Curious result from 2
Date: 27 May 1999 06:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TurkBear wrote:
> After compiling a 2.3.3 kernel ( I like risks),
> everything works file, but the login screen reads
>
> Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
> Kernel 2.3.2 on an i586
>
> Why 2.3.2 for the 2.3.3 kernel....?
Because the source code still thinks that it's the 2.3.2 kernel:
see the first four lines of the top-level Makefile.
The kernel maintainer forgot to increment the third digit.
(This happens occasionally, but somehow he manages to keep his
position.)
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Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maestro Driver ?
Date: 27 May 1999 15:32 GMT
Does anybody know if there are any Maestro drivers for Linux?
Also does anybody know how to tell if a modem is a winmodem. I have a
Lucent modem and I am not sure, but it doesn't seem to work under Linux.
Thanks.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPTi 925
Date: 27 May 1999 22:17 GMT
I am trying to install a OPTi 82C925 based soundcard into my RH 5.2
system but I keep on getting a:
sb: Interrupt test on IRQ15 failed - Probable IRQ
conflict
Any suggestions?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux or linux?
Date: 27 May 1999 12:47 GMT
James Knott wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> >>
> >> Look a little around. We use in measurments units named after people
> >> and it is accepted to capitalise those. Hertz, Pascal, Newton, Avogadros
> >> number, are just few.
> >> As it is named (rightly or not) after the man that got the whole thing
> >> rolling it is Linux.
> >>
> >> Some accepted things are not given to interpretation.
> >
> >Just like the Holy Bible.
>
> No point in trying. It would just be a matter of "Garbage in, garbage
> out".
>
1 Corinthians 1:18.
Mark.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: word processing, what
Date: 27 May 1999 12:17 GMT
Michel wrote:
>
> David Steuber wrote:
> D. Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since when was vi a word processor? vi is only a text editor.
>
> Wrong! vi is also a piece of shit.
Wrong! vi is a very nice, quick way to edit text files. Perhaps
compared to real word processors, vi is lacking, but I use it quite
often.
David
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From: Achim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Screenshots from X Desktop
Date: 29 May 1999 18:31:09 GMT
Hi,
I'm looking for a software to generate screenshots from any
X Apps. xwpick doesn't run because I've true color configurated.
Does anybody know a good software ?
thx
achim
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From: "Andy Smart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:59:58 GMT
As a total newbie I have tried both (both came free with magazine covers),
from a newbie install point of view I found RedHat 5.2 way more user
friendly
Syed Mujtaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello folks,
> i am currently in the market to buy Linux, and cannot decide whether
> to get SuSE 6.1 or Red Hat Linux 6? any input on the matter would be
> most appreciated.
> thanks
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help setting timezone
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 11:13:14 -0400
Hi
I used to live in EST (EDT). I moved to California. I thought it is
PST here?
Whhat are the timezone codes for CA (and daylight saving time timezone
code).? Is there a place in the docs where this is indicated?
Thanks.
--
_____________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- Remove "bogus_field" to reply !!!
My OS is Linux 2.0.29
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hp Deskjet 710C
Date: 27 May 1999 00:47 GMT
Hi!
I'm running redhat 5.1 and i try to install my new Deskjet 710C.
I install the pbm2ppa programs from Tim Norman at www.httptech.com to
manage my printer, but it's not working.
The problem seems to be that it does'nt "recognize" the Alladin
Ghostscript provided with RedHat. I went in the source and it looks for
a script beginning with P1 or P2.
Is there someone who make it work with RedHat 5.1 and Alladin
Ghostscript, if not the case, does somebody knows where i can find one
of those Ghostscript version?
" Next time i'm gonna look at the news groups before to go shopping"
-- A wise guy --
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux or linux?
Date: 27 May 1999 11:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
>>
>> Look a little around. We use in measurments units named after people
>> and it is accepted to capitalise those. Hertz, Pascal, Newton, Avogadros
>> number, are just few.
>> As it is named (rightly or not) after the man that got the whole thing
>> rolling it is Linux.
>>
>> Some accepted things are not given to interpretation.
>
>Just like the Holy Bible.
No point in trying. It would just be a matter of "Garbage in, garbage
out".
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E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_________________________________________________________________________
The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
IBM Canada Ltd.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Threading
Date: 27 May 1999 16:32 GMT
Where Do I find a technical description of the Threading which is in
Linux?
Thanks
Chip
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux switching time
Date: 28 May 1999 01:32 GMT
Hi, friends,
I wrote a small program which can test process/thread switching time
from the user's view. Is there anyone there did the similar thing or
knows a benchmark for finding the switching timings ? I will appreciate
anyone can give me more information on this.
The following are some preliminary results observed on my Linux box
(Pentium II 400 MHz installed with RedHat 5.2 + kernel 2.0.36).
Thread switching:
Observed min: 2.95 micro-seconds (using yield())
8.48 micro-seconds
Process switching:
Observed min: 3.55 micro-seconds (using yield())
9.25 micro-seconds
This is only one point. Is there anywhere more comprehensive evaluation of
this kind of low-level benchmarking ?
Thank.
zhuhe
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking
Date: 27 May 1999 18:17 GMT
Jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> It is amazing the number of people that do not realise that Win 95 is
> running on top of DOS just like 3.x did. They just put a (not so)
> pretty picture up at the begining to hide the DOS stuff at boot time.
just wait "Now you can turn off your pc" screen and type in keyboard:
mode co80 (enter)
Wow!! You are in dos....
or type in turn off screen: format c:.... no just a joke :-)
Duncan
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking
Date: 28 May 1999 11:17 GMT
Duncan / ir BaRRiL wrote:
>
> Jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > It is amazing the number of people that do not realise that Win 95 is
> > running on top of DOS just like 3.x did. They just put a (not so)
> > pretty picture up at the begining to hide the DOS stuff at boot time.
>
> just wait "Now you can turn off your pc" screen and type in keyboard:
> mode co80 (enter)
> Wow!! You are in dos....
> or type in turn off screen: format c:.... no just a joke :-)
>
> Duncan
This is only true if you boot to a DOS prompt, and then start Windows
with "win". Otherwise Wondows is tha ctual command shell. It is sort of
like running X from an xdm, or from a command prompt...
gus
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ***Amateur Radio Site
Date: 27 May 1999 13:17 GMT
Thanks for posting this info - I've got a KPC-II connected to an old 386
that I want to set up for this, and have been looking for information on
how to do this. Now I just need to contact my IP address coordinator
and get an address, and I'm back on the air! <G>
73 de kd4ldo
"Jeffrey M. Swiger" wrote:
>
> This site has plenty of information for the Ham radio user... Take a
> look!
>
> http://www.casema.net/~aba/
>
> Just wish someone would do somthing like this for the HP620LX I'm forced
> to have. ( Least I'd have a reason to have it on the desk then)....73 de
> N8NOE
> --
> " What A LONG Strange Trip It's Been! "
> Jeffrey M. Swiger
> *** N8NOE ***
> ( Linux Redhat 5.1 )
--
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Novell Support Connection SysOp - http://support.novell.com/forums
Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
Please note that as an NSC SysOp, I do not provide support for Novell
products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Application/PDF in Ne
Date: 28 May 1999 04:17 GMT
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Kaya Imre wrote:
> I downloaded and installed Acrobat4 and set it as an
> application to Netscape4.51. When I call a pdf file
> the acroread comes up but it cannot find the downloaded
> pdf file. If I search the cache directory and find it
> in a subdirectory there the I can read it fine.
> How could I do this automatically?
when you set it up did you remember to append %s so that it actually
starts up with the file you download?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelly)
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to run?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 18:39:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm very new to Linux and need help getting the Seti@Home program to
run. Here's my setup:
P-233
Red Hat Linux 6.0
Which client should I download?
After I download, how do I get it to execute?
I tried the i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 verison, but I can't seen to
execute it. I extracted it, and did a chmod +x setiathome, but the
file refuses to run. Any help would be appreciated.
-Kelly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelly)
Subject: Seti@Home 'TKSETI' GUI Front end
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 18:39:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone tried this yet?
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti/tkseti.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: "tcp/:7100" Not available ???
Date: 29 May 1999 18:54:00 GMT
Well, something must be running there. Try running it at 7101 and see what
happens.
On Fri, 28 May 1999 02:14:00 +0000, Joseph White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Glenn,
>
>I don't have xfs running as far as I can tell, just xfstt.
>
>
>
>Glenn wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to reomve xfs so there is only one font server or is
>> there no problem and no reason to do this? I just run with xfsft and all seems
>> well.
>>
>> Glenn
>> --------
>>
>> Ray wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:42:13 +0000, Joseph White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >Hi All,
>> > >
>> > >I'm trying to get xfstt font server working on my Redhat 5.1
>> > >system. I'm using Accelerated-X 4.1.2 and in there
>> > >instructions there web site (see below) they say to add
>> > >"tcp/:7100" to the [FontPath] section of the Xaccel.ini
>> > >file. Then run xfstt --sync and then start it with xfstt&.
>> > >My problem is when I start the xfstt server it reports "Port
>> > >7100 not available please select another Port".
>> > >
>> > >Any idea what it is referring to? Or what what other port
>> > >number I could use.
>> >
>> > Sounds like xfs is already running on port 7100. xfstt should then be run
>> > on 7101.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ray
>
>--
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.nmia.com/~jwhite
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Offline newsreader for Linux
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:50:59 +0200
> I've just started using leafnode to make my machine into a little private
> mail server. Then read them at your leisure using slrn (or whatever you
> prefer).
newsserver, you mean!
One should tell Steve: Under Linux you don't need an offline reader
(infact they don't exist). You set up your own newsserver with INN
or leafnode.
Read about this, Steve, in you documentation.
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting a new shell...
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 20:00:26 +0100
In your '.login' file, where you have 'tcsh' or whatever your new shell
is, set it to 'exec tcsh' - which will mean that your new shell will take
the old memory space of the old shell - thereby terminating that shell
terminates your login. The main disadvantage with this is that if you
have a '.logout' script it will not be executed, but if you can live with
this, it is about as good as I can suggest.
I do the same procedure here in college, where NIS is used which stops
chsh from working.
Andrew
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Oliver Gebele wrote:
> 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?
>
> thanx, oli
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Help setting timezone
Date: 29 May 1999 15:07:55 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher R. Carlen wrote:
> I used to live in EST (EDT). I moved to California. I thought it is
> PST here?
PDT, no?
> What are the timezone codes for CA (and daylight saving time timezone
> code)? Is there a place in the docs where this is indicated?
You want to look for the files /etc/localtime, /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime,
/var/lib/zoneinfo/localtime, /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime. Some subset of
these files contains the information for the local time zone.
You can find appropriate time zone contents in the /usr/share/zoneinfo
or /usr/lib/zoneinfo directory; probably you want something like
US/Pacific.
For the localtime files that are symbolic links (use "ls -l" to see),
change them; for those that are regular files, copy the contents of
your desired timezone file.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rechte :-(
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:52:39 +0200
Hey, this is an English speaking group. What are you saying?
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:58:07 +0200
Robert Washburne wrote:
> I am concidering "upgrading" to either KDE or GNOME.
Don't!! Both are memory hogs, slow and tend to crash or do some
other funny things nobody has an explanation for. At best I would
say, they are still beta software, although the programmers don't
like that. Stay with fvwm2. It's rock stable and fast.
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: starting a new shell...
Date: 29 May 1999 15:12:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew wrote:
> In your '.login' file, where you have 'tcsh' or whatever your new shell
> is, set it to 'exec tcsh' - which will mean that your new shell will take
> the old memory space of the old shell - thereby terminating that shell
> terminates your login. The main disadvantage with this is that if you
> have a '.logout' script it will not be executed, but if you can live with
> this, it is about as good as I can suggest.
>
> I do the same procedure here in college, where NIS is used which stops
> chsh from working.
I would find out where your desired shell is (say /usr/local/bin/tcsh),
and then put in the startup file
test -x /usr/local/bin/tcsh && exec /usr/local/bin/tcsh
in case the file /usr/local/bin/tcsh is not there (because of some
networking problem or because the system administrators removed it).
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beed)
Subject: How to install files with RPM extension???????
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 19:20:17 GMT
Please Advice me. Thank you very much!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phoebe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 19:17:28 GMT
As a new user these are my results:
>1) Ease of install and configuration for 1st time user
Redhat f******d up my existing windows.
suse 5.2 installed a dream, including lilo and dual booting.
>2) Ease of install and configuration for experienced user
>3) Ease of post-install administration for 1st time user
no real problems except with my modem which i suspect is not
compatible.
>4) Ease of post-install administration for experienced user
>5) Choice of included packages
i just installed everything !
cheers
P
>
>In my case I have used RH (4.2 and 5.2), SuSE (5.3, 6.0 and 6.1) and
>Slackware (3.6).
>
>I give SuSE top marks in all of the above. I found RH and Slackware to
>be close in all the above categories. Slackware is just a little less
>flashy.
>
>Of course RH and SuSE are not the only choices. Caldera has had good
>reviews for its 1st-time user friendliness.
>
>____________________________________________________________________
>Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
>If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
>inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Ding Water)
Subject: WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux Registration Number.
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 17:52:35 GMT
I have a registered copy of Corel WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux on my
machine. I am unable to find the registration number which I will need
to reinstall on my new machine. Does anybody know where it might be
hiding?
Thanks,
STW
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