Linux-Misc Digest #899, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Jul 99 20:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux Presentation Software ("Tom Emerson")
Re: Kernal 2.2 and Large Hard Drives (Marc Mutz)
Re: I only can login as root (Marc Mutz)
Re: Shared libs: DLL hell for Linux (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: locate - Segmentation fault (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Re: CD Creation Software (Carl Fink)
Re: Howto Erase CD-RW media? (Carl Fink)
Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1 (Warren Bell)
Re: Printing (apsfilter?) problems with SuSE 6.1 ("Christopher A. Gaul")
Candidates for module-loading? ("Edward W. Morris, Jr.")
Running Motif on RH 6 (Anastasios Kotsikonas)
Re: Howto Erase CD-RW media? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote! ("Jim V.")
Re: CD Creation Software (Mircea)
NFS mount problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: soundcore.o file missing/Soundblaster live (Michel Catudal)
Re: Ishmail segfault (Kim Carter)
System halts at bootup ("Bart Janssens")
Re: SuSE-6.1 vs SuSE-6.1 Evaluation ("Christopher A. Gaul")
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux Presentation Software
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:01:19 -0700
Many, if not all, of the newer "suite" type software that is being released
for Linux should be able to READ powerpoint, and potentially WRITE
powerpoint as well [but that will last only until MS makes powerpoint2000
incompatible with ppt95/97/98...]
In particular, I know StarOffice will read ppt slides [although I have a set
of slides in which the "heading" text ends up with a "strikethrough"
attribute set -- not 100% complete conversion, but a boatload better than
doing it from xerox copies of the presentation slides...] Presumably,
Applixware will do the same, and I'd be very surprised if Corel's entry in
this marketplace couldn't do this as well. [err, does the current
corel-for-windows suite do this?]
Greg Comeau wrote in message <7lj9g5$2so$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Kenvyn Davies"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I'm currently working on a web site (www.ivojo.com) for my business. I
have
>>a hint's and tips page which covers presentation software for Windows and
I
>>would very much like to extend this to cover Linux software.[...]
>
>I'd love to hear of this too. Especially something that can read
>PPT (PowerPoint) files and/or let you edit them. [...]
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 23:42:42 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernal 2.2 and Large Hard Drives
Robert Prowse wrote:
>
> Is there a limit to the size of HD that 2.2 can handle?
>
Not one that I can think of and you would reach...
> I was planning on getting a 17gig to house a server install of redhat 6 with
> around 4 gig for root, 10 gig for users homedirs etc.?
No prob.
But make root (i.e. /) as small as possible (mine's 50M), because if a
crash occurs you want to make sure that the probability for / to be
corrupted be minimized. You can always fsck any other partition, but to
fix root, you have to have a rescue floppy handy. Yes, tell me that you
always make an rescue floppy - after every kernel update and after every
new hardware that has been added... :-)
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 23:47:49 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I only can login as root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Then I made an account for me but it doesn't allow me to enter
> with that account.
> I can login as root but noone else. Here is the message in the logs:
> Jul 2 19:56:10 petse login[156]: no shadow password for `frankie' on
> `ttyp2' from `localhost'
> Jul 2 19:56:11 petse login[156]: invalid password for `frankie' on
> `ttyp2' from `localhost'
>
> I removed and created manually the account in passwd and shadow
> I checked home permissions. I can do su - frankie.
> I checked /dev/tty* permissions
>
Remove your account, then re-create it with 'adduser'.
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Shared libs: DLL hell for Linux
Date: 2 Jul 1999 22:52:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter T. Breuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: TRy not to troll so hard. Use of the word "force" somewhat implies that you
^^^^^
: are using redhat, and if so, a victim of your choices.
: Peter
Not a troll. It actually happened to a newbie down the hall. And, yes,
he was running Red Hat. Many folks are running it these days. Basically,
it matters which libraries your system is set up with. I believe he
was using Red Hat 6.0, and the init failed after installation. I told him
to just reboot with the boot floppy, then mount the rescue disk and copy
over and link the correct shared libs. And, this fellow is an experienced
system administrator (but only Solaris, too bad).
Eric
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: locate - Segmentation fault
Date: 2 Jul 1999 18:33:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lh wrote:
>
> Hi, could anyone tell me how to solve this problem. When I do a locate
> <filename> it give me "Segmentation fault".
> Please let me know how to solve this problem.
Try to type "updatedb".
--
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 [Running Linux]
Electric Engineering at Polytechnic School, USP
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1980/ :: Unlimited Simulator Homepage
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: CD Creation Software
Date: 2 Jul 1999 23:19:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:24:21 -0400 Dennis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What programs out there does everyone recomend for burning CD's? It
>*has* to be something reliable and fairly easy to use. I dont want to
>have to spend 100 hours learning how to use this stuff.
I use cdrecord. It took me about five minutes to learn to use. (It
took much longer to get the CD-RW drive working, mind you.) I
generate my disk images with either mkisofs or xcdroast, depending on
the mood I'm in. Neither took any significant time to learn to use.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Howto Erase CD-RW media?
Date: 2 Jul 1999 23:21:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:59:47 -0400 Chris Burkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>None of the CD's I create under Linux work on NT.
What error is NT giving you when you insert the new CD-ROM and try to
open it in the Explorer?
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 18:17:21 -0700
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1
Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Warren Bell wrote:
>
> > I've been running RedHat 5.2 and am wondering how SuSE Linux is. It
> > seems to have a lot of the same features and RPM format. Is it just as
> > good as RH? Better?
> > I just want to make sure SuSE is a good OS and works well. It seems to
> > be packed with features and apps for about half the price of RH 6.0.
>
> Suse is not an OS.
Specifically speaking, thanks for clearing that up for me.
Linux is the OS - no matter which distro you use.
> Don't think it's worth reinstalling Linux w/o specific reasons.
If I didn't have specific reasons, I wouldn't be asking. It's mostly
because of the apps it comes with that if I was to install them in RH I
would have a bunch of trouble with conflicting libs and crap like that.
And for 29.95 I don't have to go through the bullshit, or do I?
Or would
> you simply reinstall because the new distro might have a better
> installation procedure ???
>
See, it's dumb asses like you that make the net trash. I ask a simple
question hoping for a simple answer. People have to come along acting
like they're god-all-mighty of the linux community. It's too bad you
can't give help instead of smart ass answers in the
newsgroups.
Warren Bell
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From: "Christopher A. Gaul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing (apsfilter?) problems with SuSE 6.1
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 19:17:16 -0400
This may sound stupid, but did you use Yast to set-up that print queue? You
should. If not, delete the entry in your printcap and use Yast to add the
printer. In fact you should always use Yast to perform any sysadmin function
in SuSE. If you choose to not use Yast and do everything manually, you should
disable suseconfig, which you have to do from Yast.
Also I would personally uninstall LPD and install PLP. You can use RPM to
uninstall LPD (rpm -e LPD or similar) and you can use Yast to install PLP in
it's place.
Hope this helps,
Christopher A. Gaul
CyberDyne Systems
Tim Sanders wrote:
> I'm still a relative novice with Linux.
> I've recently installed SuSE 6.1 / kernel 2.2.7 (I previously ran Suse
> 5.2 for about 6 months - printer worked OK there - kernel 2.0.33) but I
> can't get my HP Lasejet 4L to print correctly with my new setup. I have
> read as many man pages, HOWTO and documentation files as I can find on
> this and related subjects (don't claim to have understood everything)
>
> I believe that I have solved initial problems connected with configuring
> the parallel port (parport/paride : I have Syquest EZ135 and HPLJ4
> chained on parallel port at 0x378 using IRQ 5. I have followed setup
> instructions, modified /etc/printcap... and the EZ135 works OK) - I
> recompiled the kernel to include all necessary modules. My problem SEEMS
> to be connected with the printer filtering.
>
> While logged in as root:-
> If I enter
> cat /var/log/boot.msg > /dev/lp0
> text is output to my printer, with successive lines heavily indented
> (although no page-throw is appended - I have to initiate printing by
> manually forcing the page-throw). This output looks like classic
> unfiltered format, of the kind I have seen in documentation about
> Ghostscript, apsfilter ,etc)
>
> If I execute lpr against the same file, then
> a) a queued job appears normally, via lpq
> b) output to the printer is in landscape mode, but only prints a fraction
> of a vertical column of the text, in varying positions across the page,
> with occasional garbage added. Again, no page-throw is appended, so
> printing does not start automatically.
>
> c) In /var/spool/lpd/ljet4l-a4-auto-mono-300 there are what seem to
> be valid CF... and DF... files, and the Lock file contains a Lock number
> and the name of the CF file. There is also an error file errsxxxxa00<lock
> no> file which contains 2 lines:-
>
> tail: /var/spool/lpd/ljet4l-a4-auto-mono-300/lock: Permission denied
>
> /var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ljet4l-a4-auto-mono-300 : ${CF} :Ambiguous
> redirect
>
> I have repeated this process several time - same result very time.
>
> From here I lack the basic Linux / Unix knowledge to know how best to
> investigate further. I am looking at the apsfilter shell scripts and
> learning about shell scripting, and looking up manual pages as I go.
> What I really want is to learn how to track this (and future) problem(s)
> down (rather than be handed a solution on a plate, although that would be
> quite acceptable in this case ) - how can get I get further diagnostics?
> (I haven't seen anything helpful in /var/log/messages, or with dmesg. I
> don't know here else to look).
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim Sanders
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From: "Edward W. Morris, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Candidates for module-loading?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:17:54 -0400
Hey. I'd like to ask for information pertaining to wise and unwise choices
when rolling a kernel and specifiing module loading. Where could I find
such information? I ask myself this question: "If given the choice to
compile a device driver as loadable, is it a good idea". I'm not talking
lack of resources either. I'm just saying that for example, would something
that would be frequently accessed possibly be loaded and unloaded into the
kernel frequently as to simulate thrashing? Thanks.
ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anastasios Kotsikonas)
Subject: Running Motif on RH 6
Date: 2 Jul 1999 22:48:57 GMT
Hi,
upgraded from RH 5.2 to 6.0 and my mwm statically linked executable
no longer works... any suggestions? Please email privately also.
thanks
tasos
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Howto Erase CD-RW media?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 01 Jul 1999 18:55:34 -0700
"Bunbi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an Acer CD-RW-6206A and am using xcdroast-0.96+cdrecord-1.6. I am
> able to burn copy, as well as master the CD. However, I would like to find
> out how to erase a non-empty CD-RW media before I can re-use the CD-RW. I
> tried to use cdrecord to blank the non-empty CD-RW to no avail, i.e.:
>
> cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom blank=track
blank=fast or blank=all
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From: "Jim V." <vman AT toast.net>
Crossposted-To: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote!
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:07:16 -0500
Gimbal wrote in message <7li00s$g36$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>richard van fossan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7lg2ns$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> As George Carlin once said, "You can spell your name "S-M-I-T-H and
>> pronounce it Jenovski if you want to."
>>
>I totally agree with you on that one. I spell my name Gimbal but it's
>pronounced "Throat-Wobbler-Mangrove".
>
>Gimbal
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 21960369
>http://gimbalnet.findhere.com/
>These are The UNofficial ATVRD Pages
>
Wow, irony of ironies. My name USED to be Luxury Yacht, but
was pronounced Throat-Wobbler-Mangrove. I've since changed
it to SmokeTooMuch.
Jim
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Creation Software
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 18:10:06 -0400
3 easy steps:
-gather the files you want in a directory, with the same tree structure
as on the CD;
-make a *.iso image with mkisofs; 'man mkisofs' for detailed info
-burn the image with cdrecord (or cdwrite, suit yourself).
MST
Dennis Barbier wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got an older computer (p166, 48mb ram) and all that I use it for is
> creating CD's. I am sick of having to reboot it or having it crash on
> me, so I want to give Linux a chance with it.
>
> What programs out there does everyone recomend for burning CD's? It
> *has* to be something reliable and fairly easy to use. I dont want to
> have to spend 100 hours learning how to use this stuff.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: NFS mount problem
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 23:37:42 GMT
Hi all,
I've been working on an NFS mounting problem to no avail, so perhaps
someone out there can help me...
I have a machine, running RedHat Linux 6.0, called "server" that has a
directory "/home/test". I would like to be able to mount the
dir read-only over the network from my other similar Linux machine,
called "client". As you can see, these machine names have been changed
to protect the innocent. :-)
Some other info: these machines do not share user ids via NIS or
anything, but all of the network operations are fine. That is, my
network connectivity between the two machines is ok in the sense that I
can ping, telnet, ftp, etc. from one to the other & back. On "server",
all of the necessary daemons seem to be running:
[root@server]# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 rpcbind
100000 2 udp 111 rpcbind
100024 1 udp 1023 status
100024 1 tcp 601 status
100011 1 udp 609 rquotad
100011 2 udp 609 rquotad
100005 1 udp 619 mountd
100005 1 tcp 621 mountd
100005 2 udp 624 mountd
100005 2 tcp 626 mountd
100005 3 udp 629 mountd
100005 3 tcp 631 mountd
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
I have also added the following entry in my /etc/exports file:
/home/test (ro)
As you can see, I'm not restricting access to the server from any
particular machine right now because I'm just trying to get this thing
working. I also ran 'exportfs -vr' as well as directly starting and
stopping nfs services at times to make sure the daemons have read the
/etc/exports file correctly... So, as far as I can tell from the NFS
HOWTO, everything should be set up correctly on my server.
On the client, while logged in as root, I run this command:
mount -t nfs -o ro server:/home/test /mn
but it returns this error:
mount: server:/home/test failed, reason given by server: Permission
denied
I also made sure that my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files don't have any
entries in them, so any machine should be allowed to make rpc calls, as
documented in the man pages. In addition, at some point I have tried
all of these other lines in my exports file, one at a time:
/home/test (ro,no_root_squash)
/home/test (rw,no_root_squash)
/home/test (ro,insecure,no_root_squash)
/home/test (ro,insecure)
Does anyone have any idea why this the client continues to print out the
same permissions error message in all of these cases?
One interesting thing to note was that I was able to execute the same
'mount' command locally on 'server'. That is, it was able to correctly
nfs mount /home/test locally onto itself at /mnt. Even though this
isn't actually going over the network, I assume that it still goes
through the rpc / mountd / nfs mechanism and thus works on some level.
It just doesn't seem to want to work from my 'client' machine.
Also FYI: I have a solaris machine that I was able to export a
directory from, and both the 'server' and 'client' linux machines were
able to mount it. So, I don't think there is any problem with the
client, from a mounting standpoint. I also tried to mount the directory
on 'server' from my solaris machine, and that didn't work either. It
gives me this error message instead:
solaris# mount -F nfs -o ro server:/home/test /mnt
nfs mount: server: NFS service not responding
nfs mount: retrying: /mnt
And the command just hangs forever at this point, until I use Ctrl-C.
The funny thing is, in this case, 'server' thinks that the solaris
machine has successfully mounted:
[root@server /etc]# showmount
Hosts on server.foo.com:
solaris.foo.com
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Any info will be
greatly appreciated... thanks!
-Curt
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundcore.o file missing/Soundblaster live
Date: 1 Jul 1999 21:08:05 -0500
Ronald Haynes wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a SUSE 6.1 installation to which I have
> been trying to install the Soundblaster Live drivers..
> I had it working but no now. I tried to reinstall following
> the directions provided by the README file.
>
> I copied the required driver and added
> alias sound sblive
> pre-install sblive insmod soundcore
> post-remove sblive rmmod soundcore
>
> to the /etc/conf.modules files.
>
> When I try to load the driver:
>
> modprobe sblive
>
> I receive an error saying that soundcore.o does not exist.
> However, in the first part of the instructions it told
> me to remove any sound drivers from /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc
> including soundcore, so I removed the file.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> R Haynes
You have to load soundcore first. Even with that I got a device
busy error.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim Carter)
Subject: Re: Ishmail segfault
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:12:19 +0059
In article <7lginc$nuc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is anybody running Ishmail?
>
> I just installed it (v1.3.4) on a stock RH5.2 system, and it segfaults
> whenever I select anything from the Options menu. I'm running it under
> GNOME. I've tried reinstalling it from scratch, and that doesn't help.
> I've tried both the tar and pkg downloads (which don't seem to differ
> much).
>
> Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
I also have RH5.2 (u/g to kernel 2.2) and Gnome - Yes I had the same
problem.No 'solution' but as a workaround, try editing the config files
in the ishmail/1.3.4/lib directory (Ishmail.*) - It worked on colours/
fonts so at least you can get rid of the disgusting colour scheme.
You may be able to modify the other settings in the options menues that
don't work in the ~/.ishmailrc file .... without being able to tell what
is in those menu items, how can you tell what you're looking for?
Some option menu items do partly work, others die immediately after
showing a dialog. Another coincidence? is that its crashing appears
to screw nedit (another motif/lesstif app) ...
best I can do
Kim
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From: "Bart Janssens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System halts at bootup
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:24:10 +0200
hello all
I recompiled my kernel, copied /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-backup and
copied the newly compiled kernel to /boot/vmlinuz
When I try to boot the system now, I get an error when loading the kernel:
no more data to load (or something similar). Then the system is halted.
I rebooted with a bootdisk, and copied /boot/vmlinuz-backup to
/boot/vmlinuz, but the same message appeared when rebooting. I used the
bootdisk again, and a ls -l pointed out that the /boot/vmlinuz was actually
a link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk. /boot/vmlinuz-backup was a real file,
however. I copied my backup to vmlinuz again, but when I reboot with the
bootdisk the link to vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk is there again.
Can anyone help me please? What did I do wrong?
regards,
--
Bart Janssens
http://gallery.uunet.be/bartj
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From: "Christopher A. Gaul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE-6.1 vs SuSE-6.1 Evaluation
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 19:08:42 -0400
The evaluation version is just that. It's only one CD worth that includes the
base OS and add-ons (KDE, Gnome, etc.). The full version is 5 CD's and
contains not only the base OS but also over 800 applications as well. The
retail version contains the full version PLUS some additional commercial
add-ons. For example, SuSE 6.1 retail contains a full version of OSS sound
system, and several special bundled non-freeware apps like IBM's DB/2. Also
it gets you tech support and one of the best manuals available with any
distribution.
Christopher A. Gaul
CyberDyne Systems
Bunbi wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me the difference between the distributions of
> SuSE-6.1 and SuSE-6.1 Evaluation found on the ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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