Linux-Misc Digest #480, Volume #21 Fri, 20 Aug 99 20:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: helping the Third World (MK)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Chris Butler)
Re: Is there a website for minimalist Linux users? (Chris Butler)
Re: gateway: What am I doing wrong? (Chris Butler)
Re: PPP not working in 2.3.13 (Chris Butler)
Dual boot (upgrade to Win98) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Troll (was: why not C++?) (Johan Kullstam)
Re: modules.dep 0 in size? (aka depmod) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Tim Izod)
Problem starting/booting with Mandrake (6135)
Is there a way to mount a samba share as a directory? (K. Eggleston)
Re: ISO9660 Joliet extensions bug? -- Slackware 3.5Kernel 2.0.34 (Pug Fantus)
Re: Clothes design software for Linux? (bill davidsen)
Re: Netscape & Java (Jim Engstrom)
Re: No sound with xmms (Keith T. Garner)
Re: Cracks for Linux? (Oleg Letsinsky)
RPM building documentation. (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Re: Linux Help (John Strange)
Re: TV Tuner in Linux? ("Sean Lincolne")
Re: missing module (Vilmos Soti)
Re: RPM building documentation. (Vilmos Soti)
How to activate mod_perl on Apache... (Mevacor)
Re: looking for adapted LINUX distributions ("Pat Duczyminski")
Re: Upgraded Processor (Jerry Gardner)
Re: Dual boot (upgrade to Win98) (Full Name - Optional)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MK)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 17:49:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Aug 1999 03:40:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
wrote:
>In article <LDHq3.14$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Mark Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>>Or labor
>>> theory of value, i.e. that the labor value is the price minus the
>>> gross profit. By the LTV, the more expensive product contains more
>>> value, so it should be preferred.
>>
>>This does not seem to be true, and I don't know where you get it from marx,
>
>What's hilarious is that the Labour Theory of Value is implicit in the
>GDP. The GDP basically measures the total labour invested by the nation
>and assumes that this is a Good Thing.
GDP measures no such thing. GDP measures output. There are differences
of order of magnitude between GDPs of different countries; does it
mean that rich countries invested 10x more labor? They did not, they
just exploited working smarter, economy of scale and automation,
thus _reducing_ amount of labor embedded in a single unit of
production, not increasing it.
Marcin Krol
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: 20 Aug 1999 11:52:41 +0100
[comp.os.linux.misc - 18 Aug 1999 21:40:47 GMT] * Cameron L. wrote *
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Kostur wrote:
>>220 barb FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-17](1) Tue May 19
>>11:39:59 PDT
>> 1998) ready.
> This FTPd was shipped all over. It was in Red hat and Debian.
> Washington U stopped maintaining it and their final release was
> buggy, and they didn't tell their mirror sites.
Just as a FYI: The latest unstable Debian (due to freeze in November, I
think), contains the latest version of wu-ftpd from ftp.wu-ftpd.org.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Subject: Re: Is there a website for minimalist Linux users?
Date: 20 Aug 1999 11:57:46 +0100
[comp.os.linux.misc - Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:08:16 -0400] * andy wrote *
> Hey all you hardcore commandline users! Keeping that 486 alive, eh? I'm
> just tired of all these apps intended for the wicked blazing smoking
> kick ass 450Mhz-toting user.
> So how much fun can I have? YOU tell ME. I want to make my pitiful 486
> sweat without making it crawl! No KDE, No GNOME. So what do YOU run on
> YOUR box? Did you make it a game server? Gateway router? What?
My 25mhz 386 runs a news server with INN quite happily. Client-wise, it's
usually running tin for news, and rlogin to my Cyrix box downstairs for
most other stuff.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: gateway: What am I doing wrong?
Date: 20 Aug 1999 12:01:25 +0100
[comp.os.linux.misc - Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:57:04 +0900] * Youjip wrote *
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 => fine
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 ==> fine
> ifconfig eth0 166.104.88.108 => fine
> route add -net 166.104.88.0 ==> fine
> route add default gw 166.104.88.1 ==> Ouch!!!
> After executing the previous steps, if I type 'route' it shows the
> first two lines(networks) and stalls. 'route -n' shows the third
> entry(gateway) properly.
It's trying to do a reverse DNS lookup.
Stick 166.104.88.1 in your /etc/hosts, and put 166.104.88.0 in
/etc/networks.
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Chris Butler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPP not working in 2.3.13
Date: 20 Aug 1999 12:04:24 +0100
[comp.os.linux.misc - Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:11:26 +0000] * Andrew wrote *
> Any ideas ?
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Dual boot (upgrade to Win98)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:28:38 GMT
Hi,
I have RedHat 6.0 and Win95 installed on my 6GB
WD hard drive. It has been working great, I recently
wanted to upgrade Win 95 to Win98, but the installation
program (scandisk) told me that it found another
OS (linux) already installed on the same hard drive,
it then asked me to repartition the hard drive.
My question is, if linux can co-exist with other
OS, why can't Win98. Has anybody out there got aroungd
this problem ?
Here is my partition:
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /win95
/dev/hda3 /linux swap
/dev/hda4 /linux
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Troll (was: why not C++?)
Date: 19 Aug 1999 09:35:29 -0400
Stephan Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Joswig) writes:
>
>
> > A Lisp users says: I don't care what language the kernel
> > is written in, as long as it is Lisp.
>
> IMHO, a supposedly "general purpose OS" should do more than
> just please the Lisp users. (Any estimates of the precentage
> of the programming community which consider themselves
> Lisp users?)
popularity means nothing. look how many windows users there are.
compare it to the number of linux users. is windows all that great?
does linux suck so much?
lisp isn't good for everything, but it is a good language for
designing a GUI. imho C++ is awful for this task. but what is
everyone using? the bandwagon effect doesn't select for quality.
> > The difference between a Lisp machine and a Linux
> > system is huge. The Lisp Machine has an open, incrementally
> > changeable and dynamic OS. The OS is written in a
> > pure OOP style. That means that things like
> > IP-Packets or Processes are objects. And operations
> > on them are implemented as methods.
>
> But all this could be provided by a Lisp library which interfaces
> with the underlying OS. Have the Linux kernel start up a Lisp
> interpreter directly after booting and presto: your Lisp OS is
> ready to run. You can then write a GUI or whatever in Lisp and
> have *that* executed on startup.
try to use linux without a libc. everything in linux goes to support
a C environment. static compile languages such as pascal or fortran
do well on unix. dynamic languages such as lisp do less well. this
is because a lisp environment has aspirations of being an operating
system itself and the kernel/app domains overlap.
the kernel of a lisp oriented box could be written in another language
than lisp such as C. however, it would offer a different set of
interfaces and services than unix. what lisp needs from its kernel is
different from what a C program needs.
> Of course, the advantage that this gives you from just running
> a Lisp interpreter from the shell is debatable. At least, you can
> pretend you're not using Linux...
as far as i understand it, it is a world of difference. a lisp isn't
some kind of scripting application. it's nearly a full blow operating
system with compiler, memory management, subprocesses &c. look at
emacs. emacs isn't great lisp, but it sure wants to take over the
world.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modules.dep 0 in size? (aka depmod)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:59:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <gUJj3.11$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Byron Faber wrote:
> > I managed to get my system into a state where depmod -a
> > always generates a modules.dep files of 0 bytes in size.
>
> Is the partition (where modules.dep needs to go) full?
>
> What if you invoke depmod with the "-v" (verbose output)
> flag?
I had this problem when I had "path" entries in my conf.modules that
were not preceded with a "keep" declaration. Without this, the new path
entries that were supposed to be appended to the end of the module path
would wipe out the module path, causing depmod -a not to produce any
output at all.
Adding the "keep" line before the "path" entries solved the problem.
This is all explained in the depmod man page.
-- Scott
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From: Tim Izod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: 20 Aug 1999 17:13:15 +0100
Jim Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Roger wrote:
>
> > NT is reasonably easy to crack - NTFSDOS.EXE will get you into any file
> > on the HDD if you boot from a floppy - most sys admins don't bother
> > setting the BIOS to boot from C only.
>
> Well, what stops you going over to a *nix box, booting from a kernel on a floppy
> disk and mounting the HDD... nothing.
Wasn't there a thread about this a week ago? ;)
> > There are other stupid holes like
> > caching of dial-up passwords, plus earlier versions of NT can be
> > disabled with the Ping Of Death (a very large IP packet). From my
> > experience with NT4 Workstation, it needs a state-of-the-art PC (PII, at
> > least 64MB) for decent performance and falls over more often than Win98
> > (which is fine if you avoid using IE4 - if Netscape crashes it doesn't
> > drag the whole OS down with it).
>
> I refuse to believe that NT crashes anywhere near as often as Win 9x. The crashes
> in 9x are often fatal, but 95% of the time NT can bring up the task manager (Ctrl
> Alt Del) and end the process.
It doesn't. But when we used NT as a desktop it still fell
over _very_ easily without any obvious cause. Not infrequently the
only recourse we had was to the power switch.
> I use Linux as my home gateway to work and the internet, but I have
> to use NT or Win95 for development as that is what my users have.
> Both OS's have their strengths, but time will tell if Linux really
> takes off on the desktop.
KDE 2 and GNOME 2 should do a lot to change this froma
productivity point of view. What is less needed than the "killer apps"
are killer games which run at least as fast and more stable than with
The Other OSs. This brings "pester power" into play. And all the
little monsters wanting to play Quake 9 or whatever will hassle their
parents into running a linux box.
--
Tim.
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Subject: Problem starting/booting with Mandrake
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (6135)
Date: 19 Aug 1999 21:08:00 -0500
After I power-cycle, the boot up code goes through
all kinds of diagnostic-type tests, then says the
following:
/dev/hdb1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY;
run fsck MANUALLY
(i.e. without -a or -p options) [FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** When you leave the shell, give root password for maintenance
(or type control-d for normal startup);
Then, I type control-d and it just freezes.
Any assistance would be greately appreciated.
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. Eggleston)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Is there a way to mount a samba share as a directory?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:46:11 -0500
Hi... Is there a way to mount a particular samba share as a directory?
I'd like to work with files on remote machines just as if they were local
on my machine. FTP and smbclient are good but working with my remote
files using bash would be best.
Thanks,
-Kim
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From: Pug Fantus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISO9660 Joliet extensions bug? -- Slackware 3.5Kernel 2.0.34
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:30:52 GMT
Ok, there are three problems here, one, it sounds like either yer kernel
doesn't support Joliet (that kernel is soo old, I don't even remember
anymore) or you at least don't have it installed on yer box. Two, I'm not
sure about slack, but you can't burn a RedHat cd in windows, and expect it
to install. Windows does not copy the perms over, and it messes up the
file names and some times the sizes. Three, and most importantly of all, I
seen from several other posts on here, that the Adaptec software writes the
CD in the UDF format, which linux doesn't have support for, yet, I believe
that they are working on this in the 2.3.xx kernel. So even if you got
Joliet working, all yer file sizes will be WRONG! That's what I've found
on all my cd's I burn at work, I have to mount them on a winbox, and copy
them over my network via samba to my linux box, and reburn the cd there...
it's a pain in the ass... I hope this helps.
Psybermac wrote:
>
> Many happy greetings,
>
> I downloaded a whole bunch of stuff (using the LAN @ work), including
> Slackware 4.0 and burned it onto a CD-R using Win98 and Adaptec's
software
> to create an ISO9660 disc w/ Joliet extensions. The burn seemed to come
out
> fine, but when I view the contents on my Linux machine, all of the files
> without file extensions (such as README) have a dot appended to the end.
Of
> course the dots don't show up on a Windows machine. Is there a bug in
this
> kernel that makes the dots show up on CD's with Joliet extensions?
Besides
> being annoying, it renders Slackware's setup program unable to read the
> tagfiles to install the packages.
>
> On a related note, when I mount this CD at boot-time, I get the message:
> "Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859-1 (nls_iso8859-1)"
>
> That's all I have for now. I'd like to know the answer before I go
through
> the hassle of compiling a new kernel or recreating the CD.
>
> Thanks
> Psybermac
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Clothes design software for Linux?
Date: 20 Aug 1999 22:01:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Linux users wear clothes???
Only caps and tee shirts. No one has ever given me a pair of pants at a
convention. So you walk around in a tee shirt with all the buttons and
pens clipped on...
Maybe not.
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The Internet is not the fountain of youth, but some days it feels like
the fountain of immaturity.
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From: Jim Engstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape & Java
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:43:59 +0200
"Scott W. Kinkele" wrote:
> I am running RH6.0 & Linux 2.2.10-ac5. When using Netscape Communicator
> 4.61 and accessing a page that uses Java Netcape exits. It doesn't do a
> core dump it just exists. Anyone have any idea why this occurs?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
I found this at netscapes news server:
"Running below command will solve the problem. :)
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith T. Garner)
Subject: Re: No sound with xmms
Date: 20 Aug 1999 22:02:43 GMT
At one point, SkAtAn said something like:
> However.. xmms uses A LOT resource.. so mpg123 is better
xmms takes a lot less CPU then mpg123 does on any system I've run it on.
Even counting the graphics. xmms does use mpg123 at least the decoder
part, but they do some magic to make it take less CPU.
Keith
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From: Oleg Letsinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cracks for Linux?
Date: 21 Aug 1999 01:58:16 +0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku) writes:
> I tried the 4Front technologies driver for my sound card. It locked up my
> kernel hard so I never looked back at the crap again. That is just lousy
> programming.
>
> I wish that a hole in the ground would open up and swallow up these guys. Not
> only do their drivers suck, but they are also getting in the way of free sound
> development by getting into bed with manufacturers who then don't want to
> release specs.
I'd second that. The fact that there is a company which signs NDA and
releases closed-source drivers for soundcards disturbs me. Look at
Aureal's WWW site, 'Drivers' page. There are drivers for Windows 9x
(of cause :-/), Windows NT, Win 3.1 (what?!), OS/2(err... I'm not
sure, what these letters mean? :-))... There are no fscking drivers
for Linux, only link to www.opensound.com. 'OpenSound', my ass!
Why is it 'open'? Is it a joke?
$20 for soundcard, which itself costs < $20, and *no sources*? Sorry -
no source - no love. But the problem is that Aureal doesn't seem to
care about releasing specs on their hardware, since 'drivers' for
Linux already 'exist'.
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.rpm.general
Subject: RPM building documentation.
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:22:08 -0400
I'm trying to build an rpm of a tar.gz source package, but I've found
that the info I've looked at so far isn't enough to help me. I've tried
rpmbuilder, which came with practically no documentation and always
exits with an error, and I've also tried building the normal way after
reading the RPM-HOWTO. This also didn't work, as I found that it wasn't
in-depth enough for my needs. For example, the rpmrc file on my system
(RH 6) Has many more parameters defined than are explained in the HOWTO,
and the spec file I built always gets changed from what I saved it as,
leading to an error during the build process. Is there a complete guide
to RPM building somewhere? I heard that the book "maximum RPM" is
online, does anyone know where?
Regards,
Mladen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Strange)
Subject: Re: Linux Help
Date: 20 Aug 1999 17:57:49 GMT
Goto http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart
order your $4 CDs plus shipping.
Read the Install instructions.
Boot the CD and you will be back at about where
your are now.
The win modems will not work in Linux.
Cannot help on the riva or monitor.
BD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I was recently given a left-over copy of Sam's teach yourself linux in
: 24 hours book. So I thought I would give it a go (already knowing a
: little about linux).
: This book included RedHat 5.0 on CD.
: I have it installed on my computer although I have a few problems...
: I want to upgrade to redhat 6.0 and I have no idea how to do it.
: I have a 56k 3com robotics winmodem, and I read someone that generally
: hardware that carries the win label are not compatible,
: linux does not list my dell 17' m770 monitor or my 16mb nVidia riva tnt
: I would really appreciate some help with the above problems as I want to
: be part of the linux revolution =)
: My system specs are
: a dell pentuim3 500mhz
: 17' Dell m770 monitor
: 128MB RAM
: 12GIG HD
: 16MB nVidia RIVA TNT (agp)
: Internal 3Com 56K v90 U.S. Robotics winmodem
: Turtlebeach montegeo 2 sound card
: altec lansing speakers
: logitech wheele mouse
: Zip Disk
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From: "Sean Lincolne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: TV Tuner in Linux?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:27:14 +1000
Reply-To: "Sean Lincolne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
According to http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html it is
Sean
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Diamond DTV2000 TV tuner card and I'd like to know if there is
> anyways to make it work under Linux? Anyone?
>
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: missing module
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:27:47 GMT
"Kurt V. Hindenburg" wrote:
>
> I'm getting the following error on startup:
> :can't load module: char-major-108
>
> If I remember correctly, an alias has to go
> in some file...don't remember which file or
> what the alias should be...any help or
> pointer appreciated.
> Kurt
Hi,
Your file is /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf depending on your
system.
The format of the string would be something (from my system)
alias char-major-116 snd
You can find more info about these numbers in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.*
Vilmos
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.rpm.general
Subject: Re: RPM building documentation.
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:21:39 GMT
Mladen Gavrilovic wrote:
>
> to RPM building somewhere? I heard that the book "maximum RPM" is
> online, does anyone know where?
http://www.rpm.org
Vilmos
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From: Mevacor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to activate mod_perl on Apache...
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:32:06 GMT
I installed mod_perl and mod_php3 on my Apache server. I updated
httpd.conf, access.conf, and srm.conf. Now, I am able to parse files end in
php3 before it is showed to a browser. However, I tried to do the same
thing with files end in .pl for perl scripts. But, it only shows the
source. When I am in an Xterm, I can execuate the perl script. Does anyone
know how to make the registry handle all perl files? Thanks in Advance.
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From: "Pat Duczyminski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for adapted LINUX distributions
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:56:44 -0400
In my opinion (and opinions will vary) Mandrake will be the best for you.
It is pretty much Red Hat with some tweaks. It is set up to run better on
newer Pentium machines whereas Red Hat is still set up for older 386/486
machines. They are both very easy to install and admin work can be done 2
ways besides commandline. Linuxconf, control panel. There are other
flavors but I let Mandrake.
Gilles RONVAL wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>LINUX is a new toy for me and, to begin with at work and at home, I
>would
>like to know which of the available distributions to choose, according
>to
>the context. The different cases I am interested in are following:
>
>(1) at work, a multi-processor PC used in developing and running
> scientific applications;
>
>(2) at work, a PC used as an active network equipment like a switch;
>
>(3) at work, a PC used as an internet or intranet server;
>
>(1-3 bis) a Sun workstation in the same cases as above;
>
>(4) at home, my PC used with applications like Star Office and
>Netscape Communicator, connecting to internet via an internal
>USRobotics MODEM, and used sometime to compose MIDI music with
>a Sound Blaster AWE 64.
>
>A distribution is good, in my opinion, if :
>- it gives all what you need and only what you need;
>- it is bug-free;
>- it is easy to install and manage for any UNIX administrator;
>- it is documented at least on the web;
>- successive releases respect at least backward compatibility;
>- the distributor is not going to move away tomorrow without leaving any
>address...
>
>That does not exist, probably, but thank you very much if you can help
>me in any way to find something approaching.
>
>Gilles Ronval
>Electricit� De France
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Gardner)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,msn.computingcentral.os.linux
Subject: Re: Upgraded Processor
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:25:29 GMT
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:30:26 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>Hello,
>I was running Redhat 6.0 on a Pentium 133 with 32 megs of ram. I just
>upgraded the motherboard and installed a Pentium II 350. I installed 64
>megs of ram on this motherboard. I was wondering, now that I am running a
>Pentium II, should I recompile my programs and/or the kernel? Will I see
>more of an increase with the programs recompiled?
You can recompile the kernel and other apps using the 686 processor
type, but you won't really see much, if any difference in performance.
--
Jerry Gardner | "Bill Clinton has all the steely resolve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of a kamakaze pilot on his 37th mission."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Full Name - Optional)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Dual boot (upgrade to Win98)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:04:29 GMT
I had similiar problems when i had this set-up:
hda win95b
hdb1 windows partition
hdb2,3,4,3,ect... linux partitionS
I had to switch hda & hdb (as in switching which one is master/slave)
and reinstall as follows:
hda1 win95b
hda2 windows partition
hdb1,2,3,4,ect... linux partionS
Windows apparently doesn't like the existence of other OS and their
file systems. With my original configuration, win95b kept asking if I
wanted to format drive D:\ (which was actually my linux partitions).
So basically it works better if windows doesn't even know the other
harddrive exists, much less what OS and filesystem is on it...
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:28:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I have RedHat 6.0 and Win95 installed on my 6GB
> WD hard drive. It has been working great, I recently
> wanted to upgrade Win 95 to Win98, but the installation
> program (scandisk) told me that it found another
> OS (linux) already installed on the same hard drive,
> it then asked me to repartition the hard drive.
>
> My question is, if linux can co-exist with other
> OS, why can't Win98. Has anybody out there got aroungd
> this problem ?
>
> Here is my partition:
>
> /dev/hda1 /boot
> /dev/hda2 /win95
> /dev/hda3 /linux swap
> /dev/hda4 /linux
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
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