Linux-Misc Digest #523, Volume #26 Mon, 11 Dec 00 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Recognizing multiple CPUs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller ("Phil R Lawrence")
Can't set video refresh! ("Phil R Lawrence")
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K## scripts DO NOT WORK on RH 6.2 (Kevin Taylor)
What is the difference? ("Keith")
Re: Redhat 7 won't run quake/quake2 (Paavo Leinonen)
Re: lost file on erased partition ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Telnet problem (Joerg Morbitzer)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: A great Shockwave flash movie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need Help installing Linux Please! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A great Shockwave flash movie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ramdisk size ("Peter T. Breuer")
Filesystem for use with SAN on mixed Linux/Solaris fabric? (Steve Wampler)
export display from aix to redhat 7.0 ("James Bishop")
Re: Kernel sees only part of memory
Re: Linux freeze
Re: Launching linux without XWin
Re: ramdisk size (Timo Benk)
Re: Considering Linux. Advantages over Solaris? Which version? (Grant Edwards)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recognizing multiple CPUs
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:40:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.questions ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe he should wait on RH 7.0, and settle for 6.1 since GCC is not
> adequate in 7.0 . . .
"Adequate for what?" being the operative question. Any program is
inadequate for something.
>> You will want to install Red Hat 7.0, and then upgrade
>> to the 2.4 kernel whan it comes out (probably by the
>> end of the year) to get max performance.
test10 or some other snapshot is in the preview directory, along with
a copy of glibc optimised for 2.4. Personally, I'm waiting for 2.4.0
before even contemplating a move though.
--
Matt Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Phil R Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:40:46 -0600
"Jason Greenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install Redhat Linux 7.0 on a computer with a Promise
Ultra66
> controller. It seems that Linux cannot find the drive attached to this
> controller. Does anyone know a workaround?
I had to specify
> linux ide2=noautotune
when I starting the install process from my mandrake 7.2 from CD.
Phil R Lawrence
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From: "Phil R Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't set video refresh!
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:44:43 -0600
I must have a loadstone under my cubicle, because 85Hz refresh rate flickers
horribly. Fortunately I have a Gateway vx700 monitor, which (along with my
ATI card) does 100Hz @ 1024x768.
Unfortunately, I can't get this setting in mandrake. My monitor and card
are detected correctly. XF86Config-4 has the correct ranges for vertical
and horizontal refresh rates. I ran xf86config by hand and it produced the
same output that is already in XF86Config-4, no additional parameters for
specific refresh rates were evident. when I startx, however, my monitor
reports it is running at 85Hz.
How can I force this thing to do 100Hz @ 1024x768?
Thanks,
Phil R Lawrence
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From: Kevin Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K## scripts DO NOT WORK on RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:31:33 -0500
I'm trying to get a script to run on startup and shutdown....it just
creates a file on shutdown and deletes it on startup....this shouldn't
be tough.
However, I'm noticing that the script is NEVER executed on shutdown.
Redhat just bypasses all those K scripts and runs it's
/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt program.
Does anyone know what's going on here?
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From: "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is the difference?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:45:08 -0500
What is the difference between Publishers, Standard, and Professinal Edition
of Linux?
Thank you!
Keith
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From: Paavo Leinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7 won't run quake/quake2
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:54:06 GMT
Hi,
this problem was solved (very quickly) by bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21047
I installed ld and libc5 from RedHat 6.2 distribution
on my RedHat 7.0 system, and everything works fine now!
rpm -i ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm
rpm -i libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm
And this is the script I use now (added that export):
#! /bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
<my favorite quake or quake II command here>
Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]!!!
-Paavo
Paavo Leinonen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> glibc-2.1.94-3 was available through update agent, I took that,
> but it didn't help. What are my options?
>
> - go back to RH6.2 or some other, more stable distro?
> - wait RH7 to get better (RH6.2 did run quake 1&2 fine)?
> - get rid of faulty libs and replace those with food ones?
> - something else? Good suggestions welcome!
>
> First one does not look good, I've just installed an X-terminal,
> too, and I'm not too eager to configure *everything* again.
>
> Third one is a scary one, too, I'm not that familiar with Linux,
> and I'm a bit afraid that changing something like glibc might
> broke something else, quake (1) and quake 2 servers are not the
> most important things to run you might guess...
>
> So waiting RH7 to become more reliable is what I'll do?
>
> -Paavo
>
> Thomas Zajic wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:08:39 GMT, Paavo Leinonen wrote:
> >
> > > glibc 2.1.92 is installed (it was part of the default Gnome-
> > > workstation install), but I have not done any configuration
> > > to use glibc instead of libc's. What should I do? RTFM? :)
> >
> > Ouch, that's a development version - I've had some problems with it
> > at work, too (Debian 2.2 unstable (Woody?)). The new ld/ld.so wouldn't
> > load the game .so's from Q3A Rocket Arena 3 v1.3, so I had to downgrade
> > our RA3 server to v1.0 (my Slack 7.0 at home with glibc-2.1.2 loads &
> > runs RA3 v1.3 just fine).
> >
> > Unfortunately I haven't found a way yet to back out unstable packages
> > that don't work properly. I'm tempted to remove the unstable branches
> > in /etc/apt/sources.list, 'apt-get update', and then 'apt-get --reinstall
> > install libc6 ldso', but libc6 and ld.so are probably not the best
> > packages to start experimenting with. Any experienced Debian users out
> > there who know the right way?
> >
> > Thomas
> > --
> > =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
> > - Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux-2.2.17/slrn-0.9.6.3pl1 -
> > - "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) -
> > =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lost file on erased partition
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:46:19 +0100
> Put back the partition table. Use gnu parted? Or whatever their
> partition searcher is called ...
>
parted is GNU's repartitioning tool,
to recover a partition there's gpart (I'm not sure if it's GNU)
But I'd advise the OP to go with svend-olaf's findpart. I've seen him do
"miracles" with that.
Eric
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From: Joerg Morbitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Telnet problem
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:59:11 +0100
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Martin wrote:
> I set up an telnet server at Linux, but when I login from ourside, I
> need to wait about 2 or 3 minutes to get the login prompt, I tried to
> comment the 'ident' statement in the inetd.conf, but problem still
> exists.
>
> Does anyone know why this happened, and please help me to solve it,
> thanks!
Perhaps the telnet server tries to resolve the name of your
incoming ip address - and it can take a while until until
the nslookup returns a timeout.
Try to add the address and name of one of your clients in
/etc/hosts of your telnet server, this might help.
Regards, Joerg.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:58:50 GMT
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:15:34 +0100, Josef Moellers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Allen Wong wrote:
>>
>> In alt.os.linux.slackware Markus Amersdorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> > find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} \;
>>
>> This works, but it's alot slower than "find . -type f -name '*.txt' -print |
>> xargs grep "Hello World".
>
>These solutions won't tell where they found the match.
>Markus' solution can be enhanced to do that:
> find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} \; -print
So can the other one:
... xargs grep --with-filename "Hello World"
or, more portably:
... xargs grep /dev/null "Hello World"
Note that exec'ing grep for each file may be a lot slower compared to using
xargs to build up a long argument list to pass to one grep instance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A great Shockwave flash movie
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:57:52 +0000
Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Are you nuts? This isn't a shockwave flash movie, is is a trojan
> horse (a virus)! Did you really send this messsage, or has the virus
> sent the message?
> Do *NOT* follow Johan's advice, don't download this!
Hehehe... If linux had shockwave, I might've been tempted to create a new
user and try it out, just to have a laugh and see what it would fail to do
to my system.
No viruses on linux and shockwave on linux alas, so what the hell's this
being posted here for?
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|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and |
| in | get out the puncture repair kit!" |
| Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need Help installing Linux Please!
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:27:56 +0000
Rodney Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Stanislaw Flatto Wrote:
> "What about reaching into the junk pile which every normal PC user has and
> finding a 1G E-IDE hd" (welcome to idiot-land!)
> DUH! What about reaching into your small feeble semi-guru mind and coming up
> with an intelligent Re:post? And NOT waste my valuable time by suggesting a
> fix that obviously would work if I could pull a working 1gig EIDE drive out
> of my HUGH junk pile.
What about reaching into your small, arrogant little mind and realise that
any advice offered here is FREE and not to be complained about!
If you don't like a piece of advice, ignore it and go on to the next one.
We're here willingly to help with problems. We're not your slaves, and if
you keep up this attitude, you may find everyone willing to help reasonable
people will refuse to help YOU.
This group is a valuable resource! Don't abuse it!
Oh, and while we're in complaining mode, I'll complain about YOUR posts.
Here are a few common sense guidelines!
1> Do NOT ramble for 500 words without a break in paragraph. Make it
readable.
2> Never EVER quote the entire post you're responding to.
and
3> Post at the sodding BOTTOM, not at the TOP!
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| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A great Shockwave flash movie
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:59:50 +0000
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Are you nuts? This isn't a shockwave flash movie, is is a trojan
>> horse (a virus)!
> check out this new sandwich that i ate just now ... it's great!
Are you NUTS! That's an infected ham sandwich! If you dropped that in the
countryside, you'd cause another outbreak of swine fever!
:)
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "I'm alive!!! I can touch! I can taste! |
|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and |
| in | get out the puncture repair kit!" |
| Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf |
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ramdisk size
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:44:26 GMT
Timo Benk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As of kernel v1.3.48, the RAM disk driver was substantially changed.
> I have read that, too, but what is the meaning of that?
> Let's say i have got a ramdisk /dev/ram0. Now I create a filesystem on it:
> mke2fs /dev/ram0
> How can the size grow dynamically when there is a fs on it ???
> The fs must grow too.
No. The FS is mostly the meta info. The inodes and the inode tables. The
blocks backing those inodes may exist (or not) in various senses.
Peter
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From: Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Filesystem for use with SAN on mixed Linux/Solaris fabric?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:39:21 -0700
Would someone point me to filesystem(s) that can be used with
a storage area network where the workstations on the fabric
are a mix of Linux and Solaris boxes? Sun, of course, sells
something that works for Solaris (but not Linux) and GFS
hasn't been ported to Solaris (and probably can't, if it
requires kernel mods there...).
Thanks!!
--
Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "James Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: export display from aix to redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:48:19 -0800
hello,
I have a Linux box running redhat 7.0 and also have an IBM AIX workstation.
I would like to be able to export the whole AIX display(login screen,
desktop, etc...) to the redhat machine if possible? So, the it would seem as
if it were the
AIX machine. right now I telnet from the redhat machine to the AIX machine,
export the
display from AIX to the redhat box and run my programs to display on the
redhat machine and
everything works fine, but would like to skip the telnet part if possible.
thanks for your help....
James bishop
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel sees only part of memory
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:55:48 -0500
Usually, specifying the amount of memory at boot time should fix it.
However, I must tell you that when I increased my computer's memory from 64
Mb to 128 Mb a while back, the kernel detected all of it.
I seem to recall something about finicky bioses, for which the work around
was to tell the kernel howmuch memory you have, at boot time.
This is done by typing the following at boot time.
linux mem=256M
| |
| ----------- This is a boot time parameter. Lilo passes this
verbatim to the kernel.
|
-------------------- This is the name of the kernel image ( You may
have another kernel image file )
To see what all are the bootables, hit TAB at the LILO prompt.
HTH
Peter Linde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear all,
>
> I am running RH Linux 7.0 on an HP Kayak, which has
> 2x733 Mhz processors and 256 Mb of memory. I also run Windows 2000
> from a separate disk. While booting Linux, the kernel reports and uses
> only 64 Mb of
> memory. Under Windows the entire memory is seen and used.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Peter Linde
> Lund Observatory
> Sweden
>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux freeze
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:04:16 -0500
If the mouse pointer was moving, then the computer did not freeze.
A freeze is when all the inputs are blocked, and you can do squat with it.
Since you were using X, were you able to (ctrl)-alt-Fx to one of the other 6
consoles ?
What about the ctrl-alt-backspace ( Kills the X server ? )
Netscape has been known to cause a lot of grief. In fact, if you have
multiple windows( of netscape ) open, and if one of the pages freezes ( on a
dns lookup , or banner server connects etc.. ) , then you can kiss netscape
good bye. kill -s 9 <pid of netscape > and start it again .
One last thing : did you apply the updates and patches from redhat for 7.0 ?
hth.
korner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:K46Z5.14695$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> As shocking as the title may be, it just happened to me. I was surfing the
> internet using netscape 4.7?, and suddenly everything freezed and I had to
> hard-reboot the computer to regain control. The mouse pointer was moving,
> but except that, the system didn't respond to anything.
>
> Maybe it has something to do with netscape, not Linux? I am running Redhat
> 7. Has anybody experienced simliar things? Thanks.
>
>
>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Launching linux without XWin
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:26:01 -0500
when you get the lilo prompt , type in the name of the kernel followed by 3
LILO: linux 3
Other way:
when lilo shows up type what follows the prompt.
LILO: linux single
This brings you into single user mode.
edit the file /etc/inittab
There are instructions on changing the default run level, and a description
of the various run levels.
I don't have the file available currently, but you have to change the 5 to
3 .
The X Server starts up when you go into run level 5 .
Run level 3 is with the Command Line Interface , and every other service
that you need started ( including network services ) .
To edit the file use vi
vi <file name>
Synopsis of vi commands. Note the case of the letter.
ESC - get out of edit mode. If you are already in command mode, the computer
will beep.
h- move cursor left
l- move cursor right
j- move cursor down
k- move cursor up
Note that these movement functions work only when in command mode.
To change a character in the file.
Be in command mode first.
place cursor over the letter.
press "r". now type the letter . You will be back in commad mode
To start replacing from the current cursor position : "R" . Press ESC to
come back into command mode.
To save a file and exit
While in command mode , type ":wq"
It means write and quit.
If you have made changes, and you do *not* want to save the changes, type
":q!" , meaning "quit NOW!". It will not save the file.
to reboot the computer, type "reboot" , at the shell prompt.
Or you can hit ctrl-alt-del .
hth
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:VzSY5.7100$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Megret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I don't know how i can launch linux without xwindow.
> >> I have tried combinations of keys but i can't find any that works!!
> [...]
> > lilo, I'm sure this is possible, but I'm not sure how, maybe one of
> > the grub menu options?
>
> Since I posted this this morning, my wife's system died (the cat
> unplugged it, sigh...). When it was coming up, grub offered a
> "failsafe" mode that looked likely. I didn't want to try it since I
> wanted to get her system going again as soon as possible.
>
>
> --
> Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> =================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
> "There is a general social trend in English-speaking countries to
> treat technically-educated people as the social inferiors of
> non-technically educated people. This is a terrible ill affecting our
> society" -Bruce Perens
> ========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Benk)
Subject: Re: ramdisk size
Date: 11 Dec 2000 19:36:08 GMT
Hi
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:44:26 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Timo Benk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> As of kernel v1.3.48, the RAM disk driver was substantially changed.
>> I have read that, too, but what is the meaning of that?
>> Let's say i have got a ramdisk /dev/ram0. Now I create a filesystem on it:
>> mke2fs /dev/ram0
>> How can the size grow dynamically when there is a fs on it ???
>> The fs must grow too.
>
>No. The FS is mostly the meta info. The inodes and the inode tables. The
>blocks backing those inodes may exist (or not) in various senses.
Now I'm really confused. How can I use such a ramdisk and change ( either by
myself or let it be done by the kernel ) the size of this ramdisk. I see
only two ways to do that:
1. mke2fs /dev/ram0
mount /dev/ram0 /mnt
cp something /mnt
problem: how to change the size of the ramdisk if i need more space. I'm
pretty sure that this won't work dynamically.
2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tempfs.img
mke2fs /tmp/tempfs.img
mount /tmp/tempfs.img /mnt
cp something /mnt
umount /mnt
dd if=/tmp/tempfs.img of=/dev/ram0
I think Louis meant that in his posting talking about using an image.
That way I can imagine that the kernel will grow the ramdisk to
the needed size, but I tried it and it doesn't work.
So is that my fault or is it just impossible to change the ramdisk size
without rebooting or reloading the ramdisk module?
-timo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Considering Linux. Advantages over Solaris? Which version?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:51:56 GMT
In article <91154b$rck$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garry Heaton wrote:
>I want to run a UNIX flavour in order to optimise Perl
>development. Is Linux easier to use than Solaris?
Depends on what you're doing. In general there's not much
difference, but in many cases Linux has overtaken Solaris as
the "de facto" standard platform for many Open Source projects.
IOW, something works on Linux first, and is later ported to
Solaris.
>I saw Red Hat 7 listed at �120 which isn't exactly "free" as
>the open source movement suggests.
You're paying for technical support from RedHat, Inc. They've
got to pay the salaries somehow...
If you prefer, you can download the whole thing for free, for
get an usupported copy on CD for a couple pounds from somewhere
else.
But, I'd stick with RH6.2 over RH7.0. RH7.0 still seems to
have a lot of problems. In general, the RH X.0 releases have
been pretty shaky.
>On the other hand I don't want to install an inferior version
>of Linux just because it's cheaper/free. Is Red Hat worth the
>money? Which other Linux versions are worth considering and
>what are the trade-offs?
RH6.2 is probably as solid as any of them.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want to kill
at everyone here with a cute
visi.com colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!
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