Linux-Misc Digest #411, Volume #20 Sun, 30 May 99 02:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Defcon Party (Acid)
Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 ("For Sale")
Re: KDE vs. GNOME (Shimpei Yamashita)
Re: SB PCI 128 under RH 6.0 (root)
Use My Intellimouse? (N R Farley)
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to run? ("Christopher R. Thompson")
How to use compat-libs?? (Derek Sherlock)
Execute java .class file under 2.2.9? (Ken Williams)
Re: Lilo/ kernel 2.2.9 problems. (fwd) ("Gene Heskett")
redhat 5.2 shutdown problems (THE Xfreak)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Ben Short)
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to run? ("Christopher R. Thompson")
Re: first/second/third world (Richard Kulisz)
Procmail Question ("Jeff Grossman")
Re: Seti@Home 'TKSETI' GUI Front end ("Christopher R. Thompson")
Re: Offline newsreader for Linux (Michael Perry)
telnet in as root? ("jimlynn")
Re: telnet in as root? (THE Xfreak)
Re: /usr/sbin/in.identd missing? ("Jeff Grossman")
Re: Installing Staroffice from SuSE 6.1 ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux Registration Number. ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: Differences between Unix and Linux (James Youngman)
Re: KDE vs. GNOME (James Youngman)
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Dinesh Nair)
Re: telnet in as root? (Jon Willis)
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From: Acid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Defcon Party
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 12:59:13 -0700
Eurohack was considering sponsoring a Defcon Party on July 9th/'99 if
enough people were interested. If you're interested email me back or
visit our website and let us know, thanks,
http://www.kalug.lug.net/europroject
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From: "For Sale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nVidia Riva TNT2
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:44:25 +0800
Not working for now.
I just installed a Creative 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra board.
Can't seem to get it running with XF86 3.3.3.1 using the
TNT driver (in SVGA). So have to use generic VGA
driver in 640x480 for now :-(
Guillossou Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7imdrm$t5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Do you know whether the Riva TNT2 works under X (does the TNT driver wor
> ks with it ?)
>
> Please answer bu mail if possible.
> Thanks
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Article poste via Voila News - http://www.news.voila.fr
> Le : Fri May 28 17:48:06 1999 depuis l'IP : 195.36.203.165
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME
Date: 29 May 1999 23:42:42 +0100
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I used KDE and found it to be VERY slow....but comming from FVWM your
>going to notice any desktop being much slower. GNOME has other
>problems, like being poorly designed so that people with small desktops
>are going to have fun using it.
I use Gnome on an 800x600 display, and I don't feel any more constrained
by it than I did with KDE on the same display. You have to put away the
button bar on both desktops to conserve real estate (yes, I know you can
make KDE's button bar smaller, but you still want to put it away because
every pixel is valuable on an 800x600 display).
Once you retract the button bar, you basically have the same amount of
desk space as you do on any other window managers. I don't feel any more
constrained, space-wise, with Gnome than I did when I was using fvwm.
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: SB PCI 128 under RH 6.0
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 01:00:17 -0400
"news.iinet.net.au" wrote:
> >
> > Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> > 7hm5gb$4sr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > How do I get SoundBlaster PCI 128 card to work under RedHat 6.0?
Kernels 2.2.7 and later support the PCI 128 card. I know, because that is
what I have in my system. The driver you want is the Ensonic ES1370. Read
the help when you do the "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" to build the
revised kernel.
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From: N R Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Use My Intellimouse?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 02:50:11 GMT
Is there any way of using my Intellimouse in any linux programs?
Thanks.
Colin
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to run?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:55:23 -0700
Kelly wrote:
>
> I'm very new to Linux and need help getting the Seti@Home program to
> run. Here's my setup:
F.Y.I.
http://x23.deja.com/[ST_rn=if]/getdoc.xp?AN=483444102&CONTEXT=928039855.1027407988&hitnum=0
Since I am getting ready to upgrade one of these days I'd like to know
if it works ok for you on 6.0.
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From: Derek Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to use compat-libs??
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 16:12:34 -0600
Hi Folks,
(If there's a more appropriate newsgroup, please redirect me. Thanks).
I want to install redhat 6.0 (uses glibc2.1), however there are two programs I
depend upon which need to be socksified - perl5 and rsync. Since libsocks5
currently fails under glibc2.1 but works fine under glibc2.0, it seems logical
to install the glibc2.0 backward compatibility libraries (compat-glibc, and
maybe others like compat-libs, etc) from the RedHat 6.0 distribution, and run
just these two programs under the older libs. Obviously, I'll use the older
RedHat 5.2 versions of these two programs' executables too.
I've scoured the web for a FAQ, HOWTO, or Dejanews posting. But I can't find
any instructions for how to use the compat-* series libraries. Can anybody
point me in the right direction?
What I have tried so far:
1. Installed all of:
compat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpm
compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
compat-egcs-c++-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
compat-egcs-g77-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
compat-egcs-objc-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
compat-libs-5.2-1.i386.rpm
2. Downgraded rsync to the version that came from RedHat 5.2 (rsync-2.1.1-1).
3. Tried to run it (no socks yet):
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib rsync
rsync: /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6: no version information available
(required by /lib/libNoVersion.so.1)
rsync: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6:
undefined symbol: _dl_global_scope_end
Desparate measures I haven't tried yet....
a) Running the programs "chroot /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/", with all the
executables moved to the corrsponding places. (This idea is problematic because
I need to access data located elsewhere.)
b) Running a RH5.2 installation using vmware under RH6.0. (Half serious!)
Any suggestions, or pointers to documentation would be most welcome.
Thanks,
Derek.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Execute java .class file under 2.2.9?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 05:05:48 GMT
I keep getting
bash: ./HelloWorld.class: cannot execute binary file
I have not compiled in Kernel support for JAVA binaries (obsolete), but I did
compile in Kernel support for MISC binaries.
I tried it with JAVA binaries, but it still doesnt work.
glibc 2.1, kernel 2.2.9, jdk117 v3.
Any idea?
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Date: 29 May 99 23:57:42 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo/ kernel 2.2.9 problems. (fwd)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to G. Georgiev;
GG> Hi,
GG> Something simple. but I can'f find the solution:
GG> I want to install kernel 2.2.9, but it fails to boot with
GG> 'Loading...... wrong loader: giving up.'
GG> No problem, my Lilo is probably old. The problem comes when
GG> lilo-21 does not want to compile:
GG> /home/dev/lilo/device.c:119: undefined reference to `stat'
GG> /home/dev/lilo/device.c:133: undefined reference to `stat'
GG> /home/dev/lilo/device.c:137: undefined reference to `mknod'
GG> /home/dev/lilo/bsect.c:59: undefined reference to `fstat'
GG> and similar.
GG> Those functions as far as I now are not defined in glibc2.x, so I
GG> force it to link against libc5.x, but nothing good happens - it links,
GG> but it dumps core when I try to run it.
GG> So, how to make lilo and boot 2.2.9 ???
I *think* the site with the step-by-step for this is www.kernelnotes.org
I followed, fairly closely, their multistage method this morning, and
installed 2.2.9 from the 'make oldconfig' stage this morning, and its
working just fine on the default library that comes with RH5.2. I've
even gone back and re-compiled one of the modules 3 more times, but I'm
thinking now that maybe the old drive has a very narrow peephole to get
data thru.
There's a place or two where, if you think about it, a minor step was
left out, but its obvious to the one actually studying what it is you
came here to do, so you'll do it. This is part of the 'learning
process' I think.
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE Xfreak)
Subject: redhat 5.2 shutdown problems
Date: 30 May 1999 05:14:30 GMT
Currently I'm running RedHat 5.2 on a p200 with 64 megs of ram. I'm also using
kernel 2.2.8. Here's my problem: every once in a while, some of my daemons
will just die for no reason. Usually it is sendmail, smbd and nmbd, anything
to do with NFS, and sometimes crond. I have no idea that they're gone until I
shutdown, then it gives the message such as 'shutting down sendmail: (606) No
such PID' or something close to that. I couldn't have done anything to the
daemons to cause them to die because I wasn't using them at the time. I can
restart them using the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d, but that's not the problem.
They shouldn't be dying at all. People run them on servers and have lots of
uptime, yet these things just die on my box. What could be wrong? Any help
would be great.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:13:19 +1000
In article <49043.12042$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
I'd definitely go for SuSE. Last time I tried installing redhat,
the install program kept crashing (yes, crashing), because I hadnt made a
big enough swap partition.
The other big advantage of SuSE I have found is YaST. It makes
configuration a helluva lot easier ;)
Ben
> Hi I tried redhat 5.1- 6.0, caldera 2.2 and SuSE 6.1
> I go for SuSE 6.1 GREAT!!!!!!!!!
> What's wrong with RedHAT 6.1 I bought it from cheapbytes.com for $1.99
> I will never buy redhat products for sure!!!
>
> ed johnson a �crit dans le message <7iocmj$4os$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >NO NO NO. Suse 6.1 is best
> >
> >
> >Syed Mujtaba wrote in message <[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. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to run?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:36:50 -0700
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Kelly wrote:
>
> 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
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/software/setiathome-1.1.i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1.tar
This is the one that worked for me on RedHat 5.4.
I didn't have to do anything special just
mkdir /var/log/setiathome
cd /var/log/setiathome
tar -xpf the-download-file.tar
../setiathome
Then you got to type some junk in. When its finished collecting is files
and starts working <CTL-C> to kill it and then again type.
../setiathome > worklog 2>&1 &
and it's off and running. You can tail worklog every so often to check
on progress.
Look Here's what it found yesterday.
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spike: power=1.779702e+02 ra=13.089 dec= 12.19 time= 2451186.87928 freq=1420919228.51
fft_len=131072 chirp_rate=3.360608e+00
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<ogh ncfft=2935 cr=4.051955e+00 fl=32768>
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<ogh ncfft=3061 cr=4.229413e+00 fl=65536>
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fft_len=65536 chirp_rate=4.229413e+00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: 30 May 1999 05:23:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The Ghost In The Machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, dumb question. What would be considered a "modern OS"?
>
>BeOS, maybe, though it's not open source?
BeOS seems to be a traditional Unix OS.
>QNX, mostly because it's got real time response capabilities?
>Windows NT, because it's there?
Yeeeeuww.
>Hurd?
Not sufficiently different from Unix to matter.
>Um....did I miss one? :-)
Plan 9 and VSTa. Grasshopper if you include research OSes.
Unix is a very old and obsolete design. Plan 9 took the principles that
were learned in Unix and created a completely new *clean* design but in
the end they proved that;
1) one of the three principles they based their OS on (disjoint namespaces)
is brain-dead; it makes the system very hard to understand and
debug at run-time
2) they weren't radical enough to succeed in their design goals; the mistakes
of Unix are far more deeply built-in than they originally thought
Every OS project I know about is based on an imperative or functional
paradigm. In fact, I'm certain that very few researchers even understand
what it would mean for an OS to be OO. It's a shame too because I know
enough about it to say it would kick ass.
The big problem is that in order to make a novel design, you have to be
a complete neophyte about implementation details; so you don't come to
the job with any preconceptions limiting your vision of what's desirable.
Lots of scifi authors hate learning about modern technology because the
irrelevant details will hamper their vision of what a /desirable/ future
would be like. Designing an OS is the same.
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Procmail Question
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:47:03 -0700
Hello,
I finally got Procmail working to sort out some of my incoming mail. But,
now it tells me that every message goes to "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" instead
of my e-mail address in my mail log file. Is this normal? Or is there
something I could do to fix it?
Here is an example:
May 29 21:35:35 apple sendmail[17133]: VAA17129: to="|exec
/usr/bin/procmail", c
tladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (500/500), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=pro
g, stat=Sent
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seti@Home 'TKSETI' GUI Front end
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:42:17 -0700
Kelly wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried this yet?
> http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti/tkseti.html
Naw.. I like doing it the old fashioned way.
Kill -19 setiathome to swap it out... and
Kill -18 setiathome to let it run again.
Saves time having start up some silly X-application.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Offline newsreader for Linux
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 04:42:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 29 May 1999 18:30:22 +0000, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Thanks guys.
>
>I'll give it a try.
>
>Steve
Check out leafnode also. Makes almost any newsreader an offline reader. I
use it on a laptop which I travel with.
Works great here!!
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "jimlynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: telnet in as root?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 01:32:49 -0400
Hi,
I have a RedHat 5.2 system and I want to be able to telnet into the
system as root. How would I go about setting this up?
Thanks,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE Xfreak)
Subject: Re: telnet in as root?
Date: 30 May 1999 05:36:07 GMT
bad idea. telnetting in as root can lead to security problems because your
password is sent plaintext over the line. this is why it is normally not
allowed. you could log in as a normal user and then use su to become root.
this also has that same problem, as the pw is sent plaintext. you could use
ssh, which doesn't send the password as plaintext.
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/in.identd missing?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:05:37 -0700
I get this same error running a Redhat 5.2 and 6.0 box.
Jeff
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Jeffrey Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm running to boxes networked together, one runs Slackware-2.2.8 and
> the other runs Stampede-2.2.8
> I was checking out my Stampede's syslog file and came across an error
> that I can not figure out..
> syslog states: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd no such file or directory.
>
> I try and <locate> in.identd and nothing comes up, I look in /usr/sbin
> and nothing there either. I've noticed
> that there is a in.identd on the Slackware box.
>
> Can anybody explain what in.identd is for? I've tried using man but can
> not find anything about this.
> Could I just copy Slackware's in.identd over to Stampede?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Jeffrey A. Bell
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
> -- Wernher von Braun --
>
>
>
>
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Staroffice from SuSE 6.1
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:47:21 +0200
For Sale wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After we installed SuSE 6.1 and StarOffice OEM that is bundled with it,
> when we run sosetup, it ask for some sort of #. Where do we get it from?
>
> Thanks
There should have been a little piece of paper in the box. Looks
like an add, but that's where your # is on.
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux Registration Number.
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:51:39 +0200
Stan Ding Water wrote:
>
> 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
In your home directory it's in /.wprc/.wp8key
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Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Differences between Unix and Linux
Date: 29 May 1999 22:44:50 +0100
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, most source code has to be ported as I understand. Its easier
> then porting to win95, but still a task....thats why most *nix code has
> LOTS of #ifdef #endif checks.
In my experience, once a program has been ported to run on more than
one Unix, the amount of work to port it to yet another system
approximately halves each time.
(This estimate ignores factors like porting to a Unix which has no
ANSI C compiler etc., which will always be a whole lot of
otherwise-unnecessary work.)
To address your main point:-
$ find . \( -name \*.cc -o -name \*.h \) -print | xargs cat |
grep -c '^#' | awk '{tot += $1;} END { print tot;}'
307
$ find . -name \*.cc -o -name \*.h -print | xargs cat | wc -l
21138
$ echo "scale=3; 100*307/21138"|bc
1.452
Call it 2% of the lines. This program runs at least 12 different
types of unix (not counting different release numbers of each type).
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME
Date: 29 May 1999 22:46:22 +0100
Robert Washburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings!
>
> I am currently running the default fvwm2 under RH 5.2.
>
> I am concidering "upgrading" to either KDE or GNOME. But I would like
> to do it just once; not install one, decide it was a mistake and install
> the other. Life is so short.
Upgrade to Red Hat 6.0. It contains both. They are not incompatible.
> -) GNOME is a GNU project and so must adhere to known coding standards
> (such as being proof against buffer overflow attacks).
That's no guarantee that it actually *is*.
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From: Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:27:53 +0800
Chris Hedley wrote:
> files at slightly over twice the speed of FreeBSD. Why? [For those with
> suggestions, it may be of use to know that I tend to use "bleeding-edge"
> kernels, so this is on Linux 2.3.x and FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT. The FS' in
it has been mentioned here, in another thread, that linux usually mounts
filesystems async by default while freebsd doesnt. could this be the
difference you're seeing ?
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From: Jon Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: telnet in as root?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 01:57:59 -0400
jimlynn wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a RedHat 5.2 system and I want to be able to telnet into the
> system as root. How would I go about setting this up?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
In my experience, you don't. you add a user and "su -"
jw
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