Linux-Misc Digest #708, Volume #25                Sat, 9 Sep 00 11:13:02 EDT

Contents:
  Re: End-User Alternative to Windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: Where is setenv in Red Hat 6.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: End-User Alternative to Windows ("Ingemar Lundin")
  Which directories should I use RAID on? (XWinger)
  Re: Send formfeed to printer? (noyb)
  Re: cursor settings (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
  How to delete -ash (Barry OGrady)
  Re: Newbie questions ("Tony Wainwright")
  Re: How to delete -ash ("Peter T. Breuer")
  Installing Linux on old Compaq Laptop 4mb ram and 428 mb hard drive (mike)
  Re: how to mount a drive during start-up? (Frank Ranner)
  Re: Gnome Xterm not reading .profile (Bit Twister)
  Using Parallel Port Etherenet Adapters ?? (mike)
  Re: Caching files from CD---problem when playing MP3s on CD (Frank Ranner)
  Linux Performance w/ DSL??? ("D. Abuan")
  Re: Linksys Etherfast LNE100TX v4.0 ("Robert E. Blair")
  Re: How to delete -ash (David Rysdam)
  xmms proxy? (Prozessor)
  Re: Gnome Xterm not reading .profile ("Peter T. Breuer")
  Re: How to delete -ash ("Peter T. Breuer")
  Re: Don't mind me, just whining.. =) (Steven Lee)
  Can't log in anymore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Jim Broughton)
  Re: Parrallel connection between 2 Computers? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Anyone got any ideas on when the final 2.4 kernel will be released? ("Dave T")

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:55:59 +0100

jabali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Linux is currently the only end-user system alternative to windows on a PC 
> (IBM compatible in older terminology). Of course you also have Mac-OS.

And what about BeOS? Or Net/open/FreeBSD? Or Hurd?
(OK, Hurd's not ready yet, but I here it sorta works ish).

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where is setenv in Red Hat 6.2?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:17:23 +0100

Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hello, all;

> I have Red Hat 6.2 installed on my home computer.
> A couple of days ago I tried to run the "setenv"
> command and, for my surprise, I got a warning
> message saying that there was no such command.
> Besides that, there is no entry for "setenv" in
> the "man" manuals. However, as I recall, I did
> make use of "setenv" in the past with a different
> Linux distribuition.

> What the heck is going on?

You're using BASH, aren't you?
BASH doesn't have setenv. It's a csh based shell command. Switch to tcsh and
it'll be there.

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From: "Ingemar Lundin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 12:17:39 GMT


> 500 mill for windows?  Um, not.  Maybe for all computers* in the world.
> Linux has WAY more than 2.5 mill.  Estimates from '96 put Linux at 10
> mill.  I'd place it at 20 mill.  This is for users not servers+users.

Thats right Mark, 500 milj Windows...since the introduction of Windows 95,
MS has sold 150 milj copies of Windows 9X (3 milj retail included), and to
that add Windows version 1.0-3.11 + Windows NT 3.01-4.0 + Windows 2000
(execeeding 2 milj so far).
How is that for a sucess story?

Altough i admit that Windows 1.0-3.11 was really DOS with a GUI
But the trade name for them is still Windows...;-)


> *not counting embedded devices.

Yeah well... Windows CE is still the choice of OS for the traditional PC
manufac. even in this field.


> Dude, the number is like 60% which is 20% greater than 50%.  I'd
> consider this fairly significant.

Again...running Apache is *not* the same as running Linux, most of the large
commercial companies is still Unix oriented.


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From: XWinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which directories should I use RAID on?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 12:28:47 GMT

Hi. I have a slow disk and two fast disks and I am planning to run RAID 1 
on those fast disks. But I do not want to dump the slow disk. So I would 
like to know what directories in the tree should I use RAID on to gain 
more average performance. Thanks in advance.

Xwinger

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From: noyb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Send formfeed to printer?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 12:53:00 GMT

On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 07:14:35 -0400, Jean-David Beyer-valinux
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>noyb wrote:
>
>> How do I send a formfeed to the default printer?
>>
>
>Normally you arrange that when configuring the printer. Since you did
>not tell what release you are using, and I am familiar only with Red
>Hat Linux, I will tell how to do it with RHL.
>
>
>   * In an xterm, as root, type control-panel. A button box should
>     come up.
>   * Select the Printer button (third one from the top on my machine)
>   * Another box should come up. Select your printer from the list
>     (will probably be only one printer listed).
>   * Press the Edit button. Edit local printer entry box should come
>     up.
>   * Press Select on Input Filter line. A Configure Filter box should
>     come up.
>   * Under Printing Options at bottom right, check the Send EOF After
>     Job To Eject Page box.
>   * The OK your way out, etc.
>
>There is undoubtedly a way to do this with the normal Command Line
>Interpreter, but I forgot the name of the command.



Thanks for your very fast reply.  I didn't mention my distribution
because I was really looking for a generic answer.
However, I have RedHat 6.2.

In dos/windows98 I have a little batch file called TOF.BAT which does
     echos ^f >prn
I also have a FF.COM file which loads a 0ch (ctrl-L) into a register
and does a system print call.  Don't think that would be so easy under
linux.

I'm really looking for some kind of script that will act like my batch
file or some way to create a file with only a formfeed in it so I can
     lpr special_file.

Thanks, Larry Alkoff


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: cursor settings
From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Sep 2000 15:54:43 +0300

Followups set.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B.Lim) writes:

> Is there a way to change the colour as well? I've read
> VGA-softcursor.txt in the source tree but it doesn't say how to compile 
> it in the kernel - only through crude 'echo' commands.

You can change the color with the crude 'echo' commands.  Edit
the number in front of the 'c'.

> I've tried 
> modifying /usr/src/linux/include/linux/console_struct.h but I don't 
> know how to disable the blinking. Any suggestions?

Try changing CUR_DEFAULT in that file.  To 0x200011, for example.
Its relation to '\e[?c' numbers is in linux/drivers/char/console.c:

  cursor_type = par[0] | (par[1]<<8) | (par[2]<<16);

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry OGrady)
Subject: How to delete -ash
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:12:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How can I delete a file called -ash?
When I try rm treats the file name as parameters.


Barry
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From: "Tony Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie questions
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 14:23:19 +0100


Cheers guys and gals - am just printing off your responses and am more than
sure the advice you've given will help my enjoyment
Tony



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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to delete -ash
Date: 9 Sep 2000 13:25:21 GMT

Barry OGrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: How can I delete a file called -ash?
: When I try rm treats the file name as parameters.

Unix faq. Read it :-).

(I'm sure you'll think of it soon)

Peter


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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux on old Compaq Laptop 4mb ram and 428 mb hard drive
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:30:40 -0400


Hi All,
        I just inherited an old Compaq 486 laptop with 4 megs
of ram. It had maybe a 60 or 70 mb hard drive. I just installed
a 528 mb drive that I was also given.
  I was thinking of installing Linux on the system. I have
noticed that Slackware allows for basic floppy installation
so that's one possiblilty. I have heard that it's hard to install
Linux on a laptop with 4 mb of ram. I would imagine that
it would be hard or impossible for X-Windows to run on it.
It doesn't have a cd-rom drive or pcmcia adapter availability.
  I was also thinking of the possiblilty of using a parallel
ethernet adapter and doing a "network install" I have never
done it before.
  Another idea that I had was to link up the laptop with
workable Windows / Linux computer and download the
Linux to the laptop using a serial or parallel cable connection.
The hard drive on the laptop presently has Windows 3.11,
I think.
  Any ideas will be appreciated.

                                                    Thanks

                                                        Mike

P.S. If all else fails, in terms of installing Linux, I will consider
       using the laptop as a remote dumb terminal to be able
       to log into another Linux box through a "getty".


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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount a drive during start-up?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:14:21 +1100

Hammer wrote:
> 
> 
> [snip]
> > !! Well, you have plenty of experience of msdos systems, and I am sure
> > you never saw an owner or group field in any of them. You're not at
> > all surprised by an msdos file system lacking those attributes.  You
> > are surprised by your own new realization of that.  You also have
> > to think about its consequences ...
> 
> Now this does amuse me in the more traditional sense ;).  I obviously
> know  a FAT file system does not have these constructs - neither
> conceptual nor physical.  However, I *ASS*umed the vfat fs driver would
> account for that absence via an abstarction, to keep this very type of
> scenario from coming up.  There are all sorts of judgements which may be
> made about that ASSumption, but it does not deserve an admonishment,
> IMO, even from the "informed" person such as yourself (I don't mean that
> sarcastically, either).
> 
Is this a private argument or can anyone join in?

There is an abstraction at the fs driver level. If you look at the mount
options
for FAT you will notice a uid=value and gid=value parameter. This sets
the user and
group for the entire filesystem. The default is whoever mounts the fs,
usually
root.

Another option is to mount as umsdos, which then stores unix metadata in
dos files
in each directory, with the obvious performance implications that that
entails. The
umsdos filesystem actually precedes vfat, so metadata files stored the
translation from
long name to msdos 8.3 format. It also handled symbolic links, device
files, and fifos.

The handling of the error is another concern. I guess it could fake a
successful result 
to the chmod, but that would not be a good idea. chmod is setting
security on the file, 
and one would want to know if that didn't work. After all, an ms-dos
file system could be
mounted anywhere, and you may not be aware that the files is being
copied to an fat fs. At
least the failure to set attributes serves as a warning that the files
are not secure.
This may seem nit-picky to one coming from a dos/windows background
where there is no file 
security, but in an environment like Unix/Linux which has always
supported multiple users, 
file security is taken very seriously.

Keep persevering with Linux. It really is a powerful system once you get
tha hang of it.

Regards, Frank Ranner

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Gnome Xterm not reading .profile
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 13:36:39 GMT

try putting the variables in  .bash_profile
logout/login  and see what you see.


On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 18:36:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   I have a great .profile in my home directory, however Gnome xterm (or any
>xterm) won't read and implemet it. But when I . ./.profile, su to myself or
>telnet in, it gets read and implented. Please Help
>
>Mitch.
>
>


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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using Parallel Port Etherenet Adapters ??
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:36:09 -0400


Hi,
    I would like to know if Slackware or Linux , in general,
allows the use of parallel port ethernet cards. If so, would
it allow the installation of Linux through it?
Any info about this would be appreciated, including specific
details. If this is all possible, I would like to know what
companys make them and what the cost is.

                                                    Mike




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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Caching files from CD---problem when playing MP3s on CD
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:31:42 +1100

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> 
> Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > The same sort of idea strikes me as possible for what I want: I just
> > > need a user-mode filesystem (and I'm sure I've seen such things
> > > around, although I don't recall the name), and it could layer on the
> > > CDROM---each time a file is opened, it could copy it to somewhere on
> > > the hard disk and operate on that.  Similarly, these temporary copies
> > > could be deleted.
> >
> > This sounds pretty much exactly like union-mounting, only COW.
> >
> > Does Linux-2.4's union mounting support COW like that? (I don't have the
> > 2.4 kernel here atm because of a crisis involving `rm -r' and fingers
> > typing faster than brain, so I can't easily tell.)
> 
> Don't I want copy-on-read?  I'm not intending to try to change the
> MP3's (or Ogg files or whatever)---just read them.
> 
> However, that's a plausible place to look: if I had a union mounting
> system which did COW, then perhaps it would be easy to make one which
> did COR instead.

I saw something like that on an old Linux distribution called Linux-Ft.
It had a
caching scheme that worked like this: 

You create a directory and put in a control file that nominated how many
megs the
directory would hold and where the source data was. Then all the files
in the destination
were symbolic linked from the source directory. Now, when the file was
opened, the file
system code noticed the symbolic link, and replaced it with the real
file, and then proceeded
with the open. Once the directory got to the pre-ordained number of
megs, it started to free up
space by blowing away files based on access time, replacing them with
the original symbolic link.

The original idea was to run live of the CD, with your working set of
programs migrating to hard 
disk. I havent seen this since, presumably because hard disk got bigger
and cdroms got faster.

Regards, Frank Ranner

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From: "D. Abuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux Performance w/ DSL???
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 13:47:29 GMT

Running a check on my home system :

Gateway to the net:

Linux Redhat 6.2
P-233 64MB, 2x Dlink-530TX

Hub: Standard 10MB Hub (Kingston EtheRx KNE8TP/WG)

Other PC's
Various Win98 Boxes
P3's and P2's all w/ 128MB, Dlink 530TX

I ran a check with this DSL speed test
http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest500.asp

and found that on the win98 boxes, the speed was around 600kbs but
tested the same page on the linux box that is acting as the NAT/firewall,
I'm getting speeds of around 900kbs consistently.

How could there be a 30% drop in speed through my network?
Where is the bottleneck???

Any help to solve this problem is greatly appreciated.






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From: "Robert E. Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linksys Etherfast LNE100TX v4.0
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:12:01 -0500

Has the card been assigned an IRQ?  This might indicate that the
hardware is not getting the resources it needs to function properly.
Check /proc/pci for details of what the card has latched onto at boot.

Mike Pullen wrote:

> I can not get this network card to be recognized.  I am using the
> latest tulip drivers per the manual and web page.  I am receiving the
> following error:
>
> insmod tulip
>
> tulip.c: init_mod.c: Device or resouce busy
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Mike Pullen

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Rysdam)
Subject: Re: How to delete -ash
Date: 9 Sep 2000 13:46:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Two things to try:

First, try it in quotes: 

rm "-ash"

Second (and this is more likely to work) try wildcards: 

rm ?ash 

or

rm *ash

Don't accidentally trash other matching files, though...

And Barry OGrady Spoke:
>How can I delete a file called -ash?
>When I try rm treats the file name as parameters.
>
>
>Barry
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From: Prozessor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xmms proxy?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:22:58 GMT

hello,

does anybody know, how to activate http proxy support in xmms.
the web page of xmms says, that xmms supports proxy authentification,
but there's nothing said about how to do this.

thanks 
Markus Rieser

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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome Xterm not reading .profile
Date: 9 Sep 2000 14:16:05 GMT

Bit Twister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: try putting the variables in  .bash_profile
: logout/login  and see what you see.


: On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 18:36:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>   I have a great .profile in my home directory, however Gnome xterm (or any
:>xterm) won't read and implemet it. But when I . ./.profile, su to myself or

Man bash (or your shell). It only reads .profile when it's a login
shell, and it explains what that is in tha manual.  If you want a login
shell - which isn't really necessary - use the appropriate option to
xterm (i.e. -ls). It will/may be different for other terminal
emulators.

:>telnet in, it gets read and implented. Please Help

Peter

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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to delete -ash
Date: 9 Sep 2000 14:25:04 GMT

David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Two things to try:

[snip two or more shell expressions that will expand to rm -foo]

None of these can possibly work. You have a fundamental misconception
concerning when and what does pattern expansion, and what gets passed
to the application as a result. You (too) should go read the unix FAQ.
Run, don't walk, over to comp.answers or your hard disk ...

: And Barry OGrady Spoke:
:>How can I delete a file called -ash?
:>When I try rm treats the file name as parameters.


Peter

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From: Steven Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Don't mind me, just whining.. =)
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:32:06 -0400

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> on the drive.  Fire up DOS setup boot disk, and it says it needs to
> "configure your hard drive for DOS" (ummm, partition it??).  "Ok!" I say
> and merrily let it.  BAM! Wiped out all my other partitions (Even my
> freakin' phpdisk partition!!) and used the whole damn thing for Fat16.

Heheh.  (Sorry, I TRIED not to laugh).  When I was still in college 
about six years ago, one of my officemates at my on-campus job did 
_EXACTLY_ the same thing when he tried to make the Linux box in the 
office dual-boot.  Everyone (there were six people sharing the same 
office) lost homework assignments stored on the disk and we remind him  
the incident frequently until the day he graduated.... :-)

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't log in anymore
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:29:01 GMT

Good day,

While doing a network backup from one RedHat 6.2 machine to another
RedHat 6.2 computer, got a Connection terminated.

Cannot log in anymore on this server, even at the console even after a
clean reboot.

What is strange is that anything else on this server works (apache,
sendmail, wu-ftpd, ipop3d, etc...).

So, we can do ftp on/from this machine, web sites are still working
fine, can retrieve correctly POP3 emails, etc... but... just can't log
in!

/etc/shells is ok

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Regards,



Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:40:48 GMT

Gary Hallock wrote:
> 
> Jim Broughton wrote:
> 
> > boot. REXX a software programming (language?) was pioneered on the amiga and later
> > spread
> > to other operating systems. (although it never really caught on and got left in the
> > dust)
> 
> Actuall, Rexx was pioneered on VM/CMS.   I used it when it was still in beta testing 
>for IBM internal use.   It only later spread too other operating
> systems and is now available on most OS.    Rexx is still very much alive with 
>Object Rexx available now for Linux.  There is also  NetRexx which is
> somewhat of a merging of Rexx and Java.    All develpoed by Mike Cowlishaw of IBM.   
>Check out http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/rexx/
> 
> Gary

 What I meant to say (was in a big hurry when I slaped that post together) was that
the amiga was one of the first desktop systems to have rexx and was therefore a 
pioneer in that reguard.

-- 
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(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
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Following Air and Water the third most abundant
thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parrallel connection between 2 Computers?
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 14:28:47 +0100

Gursoy TURAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Is there a way to connect two computers with a parallel cable. My aim is
> to copy files from my desktop to laptop.

> I've read the nullmodem serial HOW-TO, but still am wondering if there
> is a way of simply accessing the hard drive of the second computer and
> then simply copying the files to a local HD.

You need to read up on PLIP.
It's the parallel version of SLIP.

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From: "Dave T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone got any ideas on when the final 2.4 kernel will be released?
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:57:41 +0100

Anyone got any ideas on when the final 2.4 kernel will be released?

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