Linux-Misc Digest #858, Volume #20 Wed, 30 Jun 99 08:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I get more fonts for Linux? ("Ryan T. Rhea")
Re: suse mailing list (Neil)
Re: Backup Problem ("M. Carmen Solis Martinez")
Re: IP Alias Timeout??? ("Ricky J. Sethi")
Re: Documentation issues. (Michael Piotrowski)
xplaycd problem (Ken Arromdee)
Re: Identd? Anyone? Help! ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote! (Walter Francis)
Problem with a library ("Thierry BUCCO")
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote! (Villy Kruse)
Re: sig 11 problem (Jens Schweikhardt)
Re: Linux loses in NT tests (Jon Skeet)
Re: Netscape: can't load libXt.so.6 (Anita Lewis)
Re: Visual programming languages for Linux (Tom)
Glade: GUI with gtk (Guillermo)
Re: Documentation issues. (Alan Braggins)
owner of /usr/bin/*? (David Magda)
Re: HELP PLEASE: can't play CDs under Linux (Jon Skeet)
Re: Linux jingle (Jon Skeet)
Re: first/second/third world (Craig Brozefsky)
Re: Newbie: Needs help selecting distribution (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Problem with gnome session manager (Igor Gorbounov)
Please Help - trying to install ZIP drive ("Paul Davies")
[Q] Slack 4.0 install can't set DMA for WDC AC 22100H ? (Andrei A. Dergatchev)
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From: "Ryan T. Rhea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I get more fonts for Linux?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 03:39:07 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Got another question here (I am extremely new to Linux, be nice, k?).
>
> I just installed Linux last weekend (RedHat 6.0) and really haven't got
> much stuff on it beyond what it came with. Well, sitting here using the
> Netscape that came with it, all the words I see are really small and
> damn hard to read. I looked in the little text editor that comes with
> the thing, and I have a font list of, oh, about a dozen. On my MS
> Windows (sorry, sorry, don't mean to utter profanities in this
> newsgroup) setup, I have about 2 or 3 hundred fonts. How/Where do I get
> more fonts for Linux? And after that, how do I install them? Will this
> help my browsing experience, or is there something else I need to do to
> get Netscape to see fonts correctly?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>
> Andrew
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
look at Redhat's ftp server, 'ftp.redhat.com' in the '/pub/contrib'
directory. You will have to do a little searching from there, but you are
looking for the freefonts and sharefonts tar files, which both contain a
number of good fonts specifically for linux and your X server.
Sincerely,
Ryan T. Rhea
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: suse mailing list
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:50:25 GMT
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:23:12 -0400, John W Mislan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>subscribe suse-linux-e
?????????????????
==================================
Neil
ICQ 11875525 - AOL IM "imheifetz"
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From: "M. Carmen Solis Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Backup Problem
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:35:47 +0200
Richard A. Kurnik wrote:
> Has anyone seen the problem where you can't put more than one dump on a
> tape? The dumps seem to go correctly but when I go into the interactive
> restore function it sees the first dump. When I try to get to the second
> dump it returns the error "Is not a dump tape".
>
> I'm using a Sony SDT 7000 with 120M tapes.
>
> The dump command I use is:
> /sbin/dump -0fubds /dev/nst0 126 6100 400000 /
> /sbin/dump -0fubds /dev/nst0 126 6100 400000 /usr
>
> on a Linux RedHat box.
>
> The restore command I use is:
> restore -ivf /dev/nst0
The option s is for a multi-file dump tape, I think you must use the device
"no rewind" (/dev/nrst0 probably) ; in a Sun I usually d'ont use the 's' in
the dump command. but I use the command "mt -f /device_norewind fsf number"
for positioning the tape over the file I need and that I execute the restore
-if /device_no_rewind
--
===================================================================
M. Carmen Solis Martinez
Universidad de Malaga.
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
===================================================================
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From: "Ricky J. Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IP Alias Timeout???
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:54:18 -0700
Hi guys,
Okay, a couple of (very) kind souls asked for the ifconfig output so here
goes...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:26:4C:5E
inet addr:209.178.112.10 Bcast:209.178.112.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:58673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:59098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:2638 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:26:4C:5E
inet addr:209.178.112.8 Bcast:209.178.112.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800
eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:26:4C:5E
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Any ideas?
Thanks again!!!
Rick.
Ricky J. Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7lbbem$oni$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I just installed Redhat 6.0/WinNT dualboot and I have a question about
> my NIC configuration: the IP aliasing seems to timeout after a
> while under RedHat. I'm using a Linksys Etherfast (with the tulip
> driver) and the aliases work fine under NT. However, after about 40
> minutes, none of the aliases are pingable under redhat. the primary
> interface stays functional throughout but the aliases all seem to
> timeout. A reboot or poweroff doesn't change this. The only thing
> that seems to help is to remove all the aliases and the primary
> interface and then reenter the primary and aliases. It then works
> again for about 40 minutes, after which time the aliases time out
> once again (but the primary interface continues to work). I've tried
using
> both ifconfig and the networking button of the control-panel to
> configure this in vain. So I figured I'd put this up to the real Linux
> gurus out
> there :) Please help!!!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Rick.
>
>
>
>
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From: Michael Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 30 Jun 1999 11:36:19 +0200
Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
>
> >> Yes, it's complex. But you only need to understand all of it if
> >> you're designing a complete publishing system.
>
> > *Total* understanding may only be needed for design of a complete
> > system, but one needs fairly encyclopaedic understanding in order to
> > customize things or to fix problems that come up.
>
> So, you're saying that in order to use MS Word, you need to know the
> user interface, the file format, the Win32 API, and HPCL or
> Postscript?
>
> :-)
This isn't too far off, actually. If everything worked perfectly,
you'd only need to know the GUI, but it doesn't work perfectly. So,
you definitely need to know the user interface, but you also need to
understand the differences between the various incompatible Word file
formats and RTF (e.g., if text is suddenly missing), you need to know
something about TrueType and Type 1 fonts (e.g., if Arial is printed
as Helvetica, or vice versa), and you need to know what kind of
printer you have and which driver to use for it (e.g., if the
linebreaks have suddenly changed).
It's really not as simple as it seems at first glance (menus and
colorful icons), and that _may_ be why corporate IT departments have
to provide hotlines for their Word users.
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Technologies, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
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From: Ken Arromdee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xplaycd problem
Date: 30 Jun 1999 07:06:20 GMT
xplaycd insists that the last track of every CD I have is "data" and refuses
to play it. The only other cd playing program I currently have is cdp, which
does play all of the tracks including the last one. Am I missing some sort
of setup thing or is this a bug? And is there a home page for xplaycd?
I'm running Red Hat 6. xplaycd claims to be version 2.1. My CD-ROM is
actually a Creative 6X DVD, which I suspect shouldn't matter (or else cdp
wouldn't work either).
--
Ken Arromdee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
"I have never seen the inside of the building at Microsoft where the top
executives hang out, but I have this fantasy that in the hallways, at regular
intervals, big red alarm boxes are bolted to the wall. Each contains a large
red button protected by a windowpane. A metal hammer dangles on a chain next
to it. Above is a big sign reading: IN THE EVENT OF A CRASH IN MARKET SHARE,
BREAK GLASS." -- Neal Stephenson
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Identd? Anyone? Help!
Date: 30 Jun 1999 05:11:07 GMT
Tarkaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I need to set up identd... I have no clue where to start. I have
: obtained the required rpm (pidentd-2.8a4-1_i386), but I have
: absolutely no clue how to modify the system. Can someone please tell
: me how?
Assuming you've installed the rpm, then you'll likely just need to
update /etc/inted.conf to get inetd to start handling identd requests.
You'll need a line, in inetd.conf that looks like this:
auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -l -e -o
To inetd to recognize the change, do a "kill -HUP XXX" where XXX is
the process id of the currently running inetd process.
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
Faurot | atww.org | -- John Heywood
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote!
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 05:18:40 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Villy Kruse wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Spoken and written natural languages evolve. Early in Linux'
> >lifetime there was a spec: Leenooks (rhymes with books) or Lye-nucks
> >were okay, but Linnucks was rude. (The acceptable pronunciations
> >were derived from Finnish and American pronunciations of the
> >name "Linus." Mispronouncing a man's name is disrespectful.)
>
> Bout that is unavoidable as many continental pronounciations are
> thongtwisters for English speakers. I do find it strange if
> people say lainux instead if linux.
Perhaps others pronounce Phoenix differently than I, but that is how I
describe how to pronounce Linux.. lee nucks.. :)
I have the sample that comes with Redhat, but Linus says it so fast it's
hard to understand.. :)
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat
6.0
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From: "Thierry BUCCO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with a library
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:02:24 +0200
Hi,
Here my problem :
I have a computer with redhat 6.0 and an other with a redhat 5.2
When i compile a program on redhat6.0 he crashs (SEGMENTATION FAULT) on the
redhat 5.2.
But when i compile it into redhat5.2 it works. So i think it's a library
problem, when i execute "ldd myprogram" :
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40018000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
where is the problem ?
Maybe a compilation option to use old library (redhat 5.2) ??
Thanks a lot for your help.
Thierry - FRANCE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote!
Date: 30 Jun 1999 10:19:31 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Spoken and written natural languages evolve. Early in Linux'
>lifetime there was a spec: Leenooks (rhymes with books) or Lye-nucks
>were okay, but Linnucks was rude. (The acceptable pronunciations
>were derived from Finnish and American pronunciations of the
>name "Linus." Mispronouncing a man's name is disrespectful.)
Bout that is unavoidable as many continental pronounciations are
thongtwisters for English speakers. I do find it strange if
people say lainux instead if linux.
Villy
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From: Jens Schweikhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sig 11 problem
Date: 30 Jun 1999 10:12:04 GMT
In comp.lang.c Anthony Lacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# Hi,
# Wondered if anyone has any ideas on this one. All of sudden for no
# apparent reason I can no longer compile my code and get:
# collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
You might want to consult the SIG11 FAQ,
<URL:http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>
Regards,
Jens
--
Jens Schweikhardt http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh/
SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Linux loses in NT tests
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:20:42 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If RH failed to install on 5 different machines, with 5 different
> hardware configurations - but the other distributions succeed. I'd
> certainly suggest to RH to look into their process and debug the hell
> out of it. It certainly shows RH has a inferior installation system
> than the others.
It doesn't "certainly show" that. It *suggests* it, but it doesn't show
it. Suppose we both have dice, and I roll five 6s and you roll five 1s -
does that show that the dice are loaded? No - it suggests it, but it's
hardly proof. Coincidences happen. You've had five RedHat installations
go wrong - I've had five RedHat installations go perfectly smoothly,
including one on a laptop where it was notoriously difficult to install
NT.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape: can't load libXt.so.6
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:51:14 GMT
I was getting a bus error. What I had to do is check dependencies going
into the directory where netscape executable resides and typing ldd
netscape. That gave me a list of links needed. I made a directory
/usr/local/lib/netscape, since my program is installed in /usr/local.
Then I made soft links in that directory to the places indicated in the
output from the ldd command.
I also needed a couple other libraries which came in a fix and I'm using
the script which came from there too. Doesn't sound like you need that
though. I guess you will find out if you do the link/links you need and
then find out it still doesn't work.
The fix, which I understand should not be needed for 4.61 is at
ftp://24.2.168.186/pub/linux/Netscape/fixes/nets-2.0.tar.gz It has some
libc5 libraries.
Anita
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visual programming languages for Linux
Date: 30 Jun 1999 10:30:42 GMT
Take a look at:
IBM's visualage for Java, thier beta linux port:
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document2590
I've been playing around with it a little.....
You have to register, but it's no big deal....
Tom
Ananke wrote:
>
>
>
> Just wondering if anyone can suggest a good visual language for
> developing and using a database online on a Linux box.
>
> Thanks, Ana
>
>
>
>
> Liberal Party - proudly leading Australia into the digital dark ages.
>
> http://www.internettrash.com/users/ananke
================== Posted via SearchLinux ==================
http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Glade: GUI with gtk
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:40:46 +0200
glade is a environment to design graphic user interfaces using the gtk
libraries
guillermo
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From: Alan Braggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 30 Jun 1999 11:36:35 +0100
Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > *Total* understanding may only be needed for design of a complete
> > system, but one needs fairly encyclopaedic understanding in order to
> > customize things or to fix problems that come up.
>
> So, you're saying that in order to use MS Word, you need to know the
> user interface, the file format, the Win32 API, and HPCL or
> Postscript?
If you're the Microsoft developer trying to fix problems in it, yes.
Making it impossible for other people to fix problems doesn't solve
the problems involved in doing so.
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From: David Magda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: owner of /usr/bin/*?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 22:05:01 GMT
Why are the files in /usr/bin (and other places) have the ownership of
root.root? I know FreeBSD has it as bin.bin. Also the permission is set
to 755 vs. the 555 (I think) of FreeBSD. Is there any particular reason
for this?
--
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>, 2nd Year Electrical Eng.
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and think.
Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a
moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were,
but he didn't know what it was called. - A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP PLEASE: can't play CDs under Linux
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:53:01 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have SuSE 6.1 on a Gateway 2000 PC with a
> Mitsumi 13x/32x CDROM drive.
>
> I'm trying to use xmcd to play audio CDs. The cd is
> recognized by Linux, but there's no sound emanating from
> the speakers.
If you plug headphones into the CD player's front panel, do you get sound
then? If so, maybe it's your mixer settings.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:05:32 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : How about "Send in the Geeks" sung to the tune of Send in the Clowns?
>
> What about the old Flanders & Swann song 'I'm a Gnu' ?
Does that make Linux a Gnother Gnu? (And Windows the three-toed sloth?)
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: 29 Jun 1999 23:31:41 -0700
Rob Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The US owns those countries now? When did this happen?
Well shit dewd, where have YOU been? Well, maybe you aren't old
enough to remember Allenda, and the United Fruit Company, and Arbenz
in Guatamala and the United Fruit Company again, and your namesake
Hughes Telecom was also instrumental in the overthrow of Allende.
Then there is the little fact that Columbia's death squads are funded
and trained by U.S. military, and happen to have a death and
disappearance rate comparable to that in Kosovo prior to NATOs
destruction of Yugoslavia.
BTW, I think Kulisz means Haiti. An island with a very long history
of foreign destruction, including several U.S. invasions. Aristide is
the president of Haiti, not Tahiti.
Colonialism and Imperialism do not mean outright ownership,
particularly not this late int he 20th century. You can look at the
way we enforce different economic structures on these countries to see
things very similiar in the way that Britain forced India into an
export economy so they could not sustain themsleves and became
dependent upon their British exporters. NAFTA and it's effect on
Mexico are very telling in this respect.
Check out Chomsky's "The Washington Connection: The U.S. and Third
World Fascism" for more information and tons of documentation.
> Richard Kulisz wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Precisely which of our colonies are we exploiting?
> >
> > Tahiti; the atrocities committed by the recently ousted regime can
> > be directly attributed to the USA since Uncle Sam is the one who all
> > but killed Aristide and even now refuses to let Aristide serve out
> > the remainder of his term as President. Tahiti has trouble feeding
> > its own population and yet it is a net *exporter* of food (one guess
> > where the food's going); nuts and such.
> >
> > Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, and Chile are all prime examples. Does
>
>
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--
Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig
Less matter, more form! - Bruno Schulz
ignazz, I am truly korrupted by yore sinful tzourceware. -jb
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie: Needs help selecting distribution
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:50:55 GMT
Alex Flinsch wrote:
> My questions to you are:
> Are there any other strengths/weaknesses to either distribution?
> Any experience with the support services offered by either company (good
> or bad)?
>
> TIA
Those questions are coming directly from Windows(tm).
Linux is good. bad, indifferent on the level of the person banging on the
keyboard.
The underlaying kernel is the same in all distros.
The other parts are cosmetics, and you HAVE TO invest some effort
(meaning learning) to make most of it.
The installation procedure is only the fist part, if it is too easy then you
have
learned nothing in your first meeting with the new OS and every problem
catches you unprepared.
>From various distros that visited my screen during last three years I chose
Slakware as my workhorse, and S.u.S.E as secondary distro.
Both reside on my disks, together with Windows95.
And speaking of disks. Do yourself a favor.
Sit down before the new box and partition your drives before installing
either OS. (The Windows CD is included in the price - of course).
And then install and compare Windows and lets say S.u.S.E .
Suse wins hands down on the number of boots you need to install
the OS. (So do other distros too).
So now is the time to order your admin. hat and start behaving as
the rightful owner of the property you bought.
And don't forget to get from the supplier technical specs on everything
that is thrown in the case.
Winmodem - God forbid!!!
Go Linux and start enjoying computers.
Stanislaw.
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From: Igor Gorbounov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Problem with gnome session manager
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:36:59 +0400
Hi, Leonard!
Leonard Evens wrote:
> I've upgraded to RH 6.0 on a Winbook laptop. Whenever I
> reboot, and then login as myself,
> instead of getting a message about the enlightentment
> window manager starting, I get gnome logo and then nothing
> for quite a while. Eventually I get the enlightentment message
> and then after some more waiting my desktop. However, at
> this point clicking on logout fails to bring up the logout
> menu. Checking my configuration, I find that the usual
> menu for the session manager fails to bring anything up.
> The only way to get out is to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill
> X.
I've got the same trouble. If you take a look in your home directory
you'll see
a file 'session-errors' (or something like this) with authentication
error
messages. I don't know yet how to fix it. When I see the gnome logo
without window bar I simply Ctrl-Alt-Backspace it and relogon.
Igor Gorbounov
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From: "Paul Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help - trying to install ZIP drive
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:05:39 +0100
Hi
I'm running RedHat 5.2 and wish to install an external parallel Iomega ZIP
drive.
I've run the command "insmod ppa" but the following happens
/lib/modules/preferred/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy.
What do I need to do? Do a need to rebuild the kernel? Does RedHat 5.2. come
with all the modules?
Thanks
Vijay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei A. Dergatchev)
Subject: [Q] Slack 4.0 install can't set DMA for WDC AC 22100H ?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:23:46 GMT
Hi,
I've got a tricky problem and I wonder if some one
could advise me on it.
I have Slack 3.something (can't remember, it came
with 2.0.30 kernel) running on PII. I upgraded to 2.0.36
and I tried to go to 2.2.x and all latest modules by
installing a fresh Slack 4.0. However, for some mysterious
reason setup procedure (I'm using bare.i and color.gz)
can't recognize DMA for my (PrimaryMaster) WDC.
A few days ago I installed the same Slack 4.0 on another
PC, which in fact has very similar HW configuration
together with current one, and the only difference
I can see is motherboard. Install succeded with Pentium
200 on LTX but failed with PII on SE440BX-2.
I'm getting something like "DMA disabled" or something
during installation (and I noticed that loading of the ramdisk
takes way too much then usually).
Is there anything I can do to get my DMA back together
with Slack 4.0 ? Of course I can update all modules and
kernel piece by piece instead of just one installation, but
somehow I'm not too happy with such solution :-)
Andrei
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