[EUG-LUG:5165] Re: Setting up a gate for a private LAN?

2000-12-01 Thread Bob Miller
I found Coyote sources here and here. http://www.coyotelinux.com/files/source/ http://linux.davecentral.com/cgi-bin/downloadsrc.pl?5500 I don't know whether that's the complete distro or not. Shell scripts, obviously, are their own source. I can't find any mention of licensing

[EUG-LUG:5168] Ananova - Try Ananova's WAP service for free

2000-12-01 Thread Michael Smith
Hi guys, try this out, if you are interested in funky phones. http://www.ananova.com/a-files/wap_review.html

[EUG-LUG:5170] Clay Shirky on WAP

2000-12-01 Thread Bob Miller
The nice thing about the Web is that you can always find somebody else who's already written what you think, and done a better job of it than you can. At this URL, Clay Shirky helps me explain why WAP is very wrong. http://www.shirky.com/writings/wap_closed_door.html I don't see myself

[EUG-LUG:5172] Re: BSD at EUGLUG

2000-12-01 Thread Bob Crandell
Hello! We have done some work for Balzhiser Hubbard Engineers in the past. It's nice to see Linux spreading in the mainstream. EUGLUG meets every 3rd Saturday of the month at our office from 2 to 4 PM. We have a 10 computer classroom to hold this in with a few extra folding chairs. Currently,

[EUG-LUG:5173] Re: BSD at EUGLUG

2000-12-01 Thread Darren C Vyff
Timothy Howe wrote: I would probably do a FreeBSD installation and then some configuration since it is a little more user friendly. Then perhaps compile a kernel or something... Ideas and statements of interest would be welcome. Excelsior! Tim Howe For my two cents, I would

[EUG-LUG:5174] Re: BSD at EUGLUG

2000-12-01 Thread Timothy Howe
Darren, There aren't really any noteworthy differences in command uses accross platforms. Your shell is pretty much what matters there. There are some very obscure commands that are unique to BSD that most people don't use. These were written about in an article not long ago, I will

[EUG-LUG:5175] Re: BSD at EUGLUG

2000-12-01 Thread Timothy Howe
Bob, Well, I use OpenBSD here right now, and it was setup by me and then introduced later.. I'm trying to sell them on more Open software all the time, time will tell :) There are a lot of smart people here, so I have high hopes. As mentioned before, there already seems to be a

[EUG-LUG:5176] Re: Laptop hardware compatibility

2000-12-01 Thread Bob Miller
Dexter Graphic wrote: Does anyone know where I can find hardware specs for laptop computers that will work with Debian G/L? Check out the Linux on Laptops page. http://www.cs/utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Debian shouldn't present any special hurdles. --

[EUG-LUG:5177] Re: Clay Shirky on WAP

2000-12-01 Thread Randolph Fritz
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:36:48AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: I don't see myself using a WAP phone anytime soon, even if future phones and networks become powerful enough to make it pleasant to use. (They probably won't, because the architecture prevents competition, and without competition,

[EUG-LUG:5169] Laptop hardware compatibility

2000-12-01 Thread Dexter Graphic
Does anyone know where I can find hardware specs for laptop computers that will work with Debian G/L? By the way, I enjoyed meeting many of you last night. Dexter Graphic

[EUG-LUG:5178] Re: Setting up a gate for a private LAN?

2000-12-01 Thread Jim Darrough
Hmm. That was me. Getting too old to be a hacker I guess! JUST KIDDING... At 12:23 11/30/00 -0800, you wrote: SuSE is the one. Less the experimental time under Mandrake, I survived many attempts to bring me down. The one successful attack was due to a really poor root password.

[EUG-LUG:5171] BSD at EUGLUG

2000-12-01 Thread Timothy Howe
Hello! Yesterday's meeting was my first UG meeting since moving to the West coast and it was nice to see so many people interested in Open Source Unix alternatives. After speaking to many of you, it seemed that there has yet to be much experience using BSD. There did seem to be some

[EUG-LUG:5179] CVSup and FreeBSD

2000-12-01 Thread Leo Clark
I'm running FreeBSD 4.1 on my server. I installed off a CD a friend burnt for me like a day or two after 4.1 came out. Since then I haven't done any updating. I though I would try my hand at a CVS update. My question is this. If something /has/ been updated since I installed will the