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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 94 05:13:16 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #855
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Linux-Misc Digest #855, Volume #2 Sat, 1 Oct 94 05:13:16 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: OS/2 vs Linux Speed was ( Re: OS/2 fan wants to try Linux..) (Jeff Kesselman)
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X News-reader for LinuX (Wrath Child)
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Re: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev (Ian Parkin)
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Re: Linux goes commercial (Al Longyear)
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Re: Procmail for Linux? (Andre Fachat)
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Re: Hardcard IIXL and Linux (Andre Fachat)
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Re: Editors/WordProcessors for Linux (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Re: New Linux Distribution (Mark J. Bobak)
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Re: PROMISE DC4030VL-2 IDE Controller (Kamal Shaker)
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Re: Emacs & latex for thesis (Floyd Davidson)
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DataBase Programs for Linux (Jason Sokolosky)
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Re: Ada Compiler for Linux (Steven Buytaert)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Joseph W. Vigneau)
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Re: NEWBIE!: How do i Print from GS (not over LPR!) (Andreas Matthias)
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Re: [Q] SW Technology (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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Xconfig under linux (slackware) (Andrew Peter BRUNO)
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Linux Speed was ( Re: OS/2 fan wants to try Linux..)
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 07:21:08 GMT
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In article <35rlj1$4kr@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>,
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Julian Boot <cs307319@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> wrote:
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>hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
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>
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>>Followup to: <1994Sep13.181131.13799@pvi.com>
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>>By author: todd@pvi.com (todd)
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>>In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc
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>>>
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>>> I recently added Linux to my OS/2 machine and am quite
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>>> happy, so I feel somewhat qualified to answer this post:
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>>>
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>>> Jim Chisholm (Jim@JChisholm.Phys.Dal.Ca) wrote:
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>>> : Hi folks..
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>>> : I'm a long time advocate of OS/2 and I am curious about Linux..
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>>>
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>>> : 1)will it run on a386DX40 8M ?
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>>>
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>>> Yes, but slowly.
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>>>
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>
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>>But not anywhere near as slowly as OS/2.
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>
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>Quite. On a 8MB machine, Linux and X are quite a bit more snappy than
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>OS/2 and PM. One of the major reasons seems to be the much better handling
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>of swapping in Linux - even the pacthes for OS/2 2.11 do not improve things
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>much. Also PM is very slow. Shame, but true.
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>
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On the other hand, X with Linux on my 5 meg 386-33 is unusably slowly,
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while OS/2 and PM were reasonable (though not speedy). I have a feeling
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this has more to do with how things are tuned then any innate superiority
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of one system. IBM has worked very hard to tune OS/2 to perform
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reasonably on low end systems. The prevailing thinking on X seems to be
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that if you can't afford at least 8 meg, then you aren't a real user.
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Shame, but true.
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;)
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Jeff Kesselman
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From: wrath@myhost.subdomain.domain (Wrath Child)
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Subject: X News-reader for LinuX
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 17:49:53 GMT
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I'm looking for an Xnews reader for LinuX. If anyone has
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any info about something like this...I would be a very
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happy camper.
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Thanx,
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wrathchild
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From: iap@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au (Ian Parkin)
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Subject: Re: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 01:35:35 GMT
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: For light beers, I'd have to go with Sierra Nevada Pale,
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: the Walnut Brewery's Buffalo Gold Ale, or Breckenridge Brewery's
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: India Pale Ale.
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For real sig-11 problems 'Orkney Skull Splitter' a non-too delicate drop
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with the crippling capabilities of a chainsaw.
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IAP
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From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
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Subject: Re: Linux goes commercial
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 12:00:56 GMT
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c-clark@freenet2.scri.fsu.edu (Champ Clark) writes:
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> My boss swears up and down that he read somewhere that Linux
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> is no longer going to be a "free" (when I say that, I mean,
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> you dont have to buy it.. you can FTP it) anymore. He states
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> that the author (linus) has decided to make "linux" a commerical
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> product. I told him that I though this was odd, and i figured
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> I would have heard *something* around usenet about that (that
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> would be pretty big news!). I told him there was commerical
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> *distributions* of linux, but that was no to be confused with
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> "linux" itself (ie = kernel source). He stated, "nope,
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> Linux itelf will go commerical... It will no longer be
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> a public freeware/public domain OS, but a commercial OS",
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> which I took as "Similar to SunOS for x86" or "SCO"...
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Then tell him to buy it and use it. It seems that this is one of the
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major complaints from the 'business' people that "since it did not
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cost me anything then it can't be good." You should be happy with your
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boss' misconception.
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I would think that your boss is getting things confused. Linux will
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support commercial software in the form of iBCS and Wine. However,
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that has nothing to do with the operating system itself nor the status
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of its availability or distribution.
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p.s.: There is an old saying "the customer is always right". In business,
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there is another old saying "the boss is always right." DON'T ARGUE. And
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don't point out the mistake. It really doesn't matter.
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--
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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From: fs1@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Andre Fachat)
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Subject: Re: Procmail for Linux?
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 17:53:49 GMT
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Don Rubin (set@cais.com) wrote:
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: I was looking for a package to handle automated response Email
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: (eg. info@setinc.com), some kind person suggested I use the
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: Procmail package (which I retrieved the source for) unfortunatly
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: I can't get it to build under Linux. Does anyone have this working
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: under Linux?
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I also tried to compile this and it worked so far (I don't remember
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any problems) But after that it always wants to use "dotlocking"
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on the mail folder in /var/spool/mail to append and this requires
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the sticky bit set and wordl write for this directory, which I will
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never grant.
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And this seems to be incompatible with smail :-( (as smail seems
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to use some other method)
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Andre
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--
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Andre Fachat mail me! fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de
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For some it is MS-Windows, for others it's the longest batch file on earth...
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From: fs1@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Andre Fachat)
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Subject: Re: Hardcard IIXL and Linux
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 17:56:51 GMT
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Bill Jaeger (jaegerwl@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu) wrote:
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: Howdy!
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: I was wondering if anyone knew of a driver that would allow a Plus Hardcard
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: IIXL to be used with Linux?
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: I'd like to bring Linux up on an old 386 which has a Hardcard in it.
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: Thanks in advance!
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I also have a Hardcard II XL with 50 MB.
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I use the Atdisk2 kernel patch and it works very well.
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If you get problems mail me at home (see below)
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Andre
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: -Bill
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--
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Andre Fachat mail me! fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de
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For some it is MS-Windows, for others it's the longest batch file on earth...
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Subject: Re: Editors/WordProcessors for Linux
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 19:56:14 GMT
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In article <3692t5$19kb@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>, naoumov@physics.unc.edu (Sergei Naoumov) writes:
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>In article <3688pj$kht@Venus.mcs.com> macgyver@MCS.COM (MacGyver) writes:
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>>TeX...I've got a few questions about that. Is there a good TeX editor? If
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>>so, WHERE? Are there TeX converters from say ASCII to TeX or vice versa?
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>>If so WHERE? I'd like to find a good TeX editor (preferrably X based) and
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>>get it running, however, I seem to be running into brick walls whenever I
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>>try to find any information about it.
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>
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>Hey, TeX is a typesetting system. There is NO WAY of converting FROM
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>ASCII to TeX's code just because there is nothing to convert. I presume,
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>though that you have an ASCII file that you want to print using TeX. Then
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>you have to read a good book about TeX and look for a basic structure of
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>a document.
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Not at all. Try dvi2tty (or its variants). Does what the guy wants,
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takes TeX output (a dvi file) and turns it into ascii text, losing all bells
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and whistles.
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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From: mbobak@tr1106.to.ford.com (Mark J. Bobak)
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Subject: Re: New Linux Distribution
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 20:02:25 GMT
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In article <36ber3$4ht@gandalf.rutgers.edu>,
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Juana Moreno <madrid@gandalf.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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>I have been thinking of putting up a new Linux distribution especially
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>oriented to DOS-Win dummies. I have taken a nontraditional approach and
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>am willing to sacrifice many of the sacred cows of Unix. I really think
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>that many features of traditional unix are not very useful in a typical
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>home pc context. However, clearly Linux has many advantages over Dos-Win
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>if care is taken for keeping a reasonably small distribution. That way,
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>Dos-Win users can discover the power of Linux without feeling overwhelmed.
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>I'd like to include a short and concise guide that highlights the major
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>differences between dos-win and Linux-Xfree86, something of the sort of
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>the book "Unix in a Nutshell" but much shorter. A possible title could be
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>"Unix (Linux) in a Pinhead: an introduccion to Unix for Dos users" (grin).
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Well, this is just my opinion, but.....
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The way I see it, Unix is so powerful because it has all the utilities that
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it has. It is not for the faint of heart. There is a lot to know and there
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is a lot to learn, just to be a good user. And if you're talking about a
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system for home use, then, presumably, the user will also be the system
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administrator, which entails a whole lot more.
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>My distribution, tentatively called "WIn-dos Transition" (WIT), would have
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>the following features:
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> - Defaults to SINGLE USER mode. No need to show the complications
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> of multiuser accounts to newbies who will likely use it
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> personally.
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This could be a problem, as single-user-mode is, by definition, root access.
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Root access is something that even an experienced user should only login with
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when necessary.
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> - Only one shell: bash, with lots of aliases that match as closely
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> as possible the COMMAND.COM commands and the utilities in
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> the DOS directory. Maybe it won't be very difficult to
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> include a .BAT->.sh translator.
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I suppose that this is doable, but why? If the point is to get people to
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start learing Unix, the last thing you want to do is disguise it.
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> - Only enough utilities to match the functionality of the DOS
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> standard utilities plus the major unix winners like
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> grep, awk and sed. (But not vi or emacs!!!).
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Again, the utilities that Unix has are what makes it so powerful! Don't
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cripple it.
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> - NO NETWORKING, except for maybe a terminal program (minicom) and
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> a mostly configured SLIP (client side only). In that case,
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> maybe Mosaic should be also included.
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This is probably fairly harmless. That's probably all the home user would
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want anyways.
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> -NO SCSI. Most home dos-win users don't even know what SCSI is.
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They may not know what it is, but certainly, there are lots of dos/win home
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systems out there that have SCSI drives and other devices.
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> -XFree 3.1 configured to use the VGA16 server (mono or color) with
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> a generic (low resolution) Xconfig.
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Why VGA16 low-res? If you want to convince them that it's better than dos/win,
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you ought to configure their system to the max posible resolution and colors,
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right? (Pretty pictures impress people! ;-))
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> - Utilities to match the standard Windows applets:
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>[list of applets deleted]
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Many of these and hundreds more X programs and utilities are available now...
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no problem there.
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> - Only one window manager: FVWM
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Also not a problem for your average user.
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> - No developing tools.
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Probably not needed, for your intended audience.
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> - The binaries should fit (gzipped) in 10 1.44 floppies.
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>
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>The idea is that this will not be the final Linux distribution that
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>the users will have, but only a "transitional" distribution that lets
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>them get the feeling of the power of Linux in an environment as much familiar
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>to them as possible. Therefore, the distribution will be compatible with
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>Slackware "packages", so that an upgrade (when the fear is left behind) will
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>be very smooth.
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>Well, that's my idea. I'd like to hear comments before I start packaging
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>everything, because if you think this is useless I'd like to know before
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>I waste my time. All suggestions will be appreciated.
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>
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Well, I'm not sure you'll find an intended audience. The average Joe,
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non-power-user, non-hacker, will likely not see the need for an OS such
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as Unix. And, for his use, he'll probably be right. As for setting up a
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distribution that is easier to install and get off the ground, well, that's
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tough to do, simply because there are so many different cdrom/mouse/drive/
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controller/video card and monitor options out there. The installer is forced
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to know something about the hardware and in many cases may have to get to the
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level of knowledge where he knows the difference between IRQ5 and IRQ7.
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Here at work, we have quite a large Sun workstation installation, and lots of
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users of varying levels of expertise. Many folks, when they just start using
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Unix, know enough to login and start X. Their default startup starts X.desktop,
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and they know how to use a mouse and click icons. However, it doesn't take long
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for them to find the command line, and they start picking up on basic commands
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within a week or so. (cd,mkdir,pwd,lpq,etc,etc) My point is, these users also
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have a staff of help desk folks ready to answer any questions they have, and
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fix the system when things get screwed up.
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In short, Unix is not an entry level OS. It was not intended to be, and I doubt
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it ever will be.
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Sorry if I sound like I blew you out of the water, but that's my opinion. Take
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it for what it's worth! ;-)
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-Mark
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Mark J. Bobak
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Application Developer
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Truck Operations, Ford Motor Company
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bobak@mailhost.to.ford.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: PROMISE DC4030VL-2 IDE Controller
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From: shaker@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Kamal Shaker)
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 05:58:51 GMT
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Christian Nelson (cnelson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
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: I also have one of these controllers, though I only use two drives
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: with it... so I'm not going to be much help. I'm almost positive
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: you'll need to acquire the patch that allows you to use two IDE
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: controllers simutaneously. The promise card, as far as using a 3d and
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: 4th drive is concerned, acts like two controllers.
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Nope... I have one of these cards with the at2disk or whatever
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patches and it doesn't work, the kernel complains about not
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being able to resest the controller...
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: Have you have any trouble with your controllers, ie: system locking-up
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: when doing intensive (disk intensive) activities? Mine does, but ONLY
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: when I have it set on defered write. Let me know if you also have
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: this problem. I think it might me related to my drive
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: configuration... That Promise controller doesn't like WD drives in a
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: two drive configuration.
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Well it crashed under OS/2 last night when I was copying ~50meg
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from the CD, that and the fact I can't get anything to boot in
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fast ( read cache only ) mode.
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: Christian |
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: nelson@enews.nrl.navy.mil |
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: cnelson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |
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Kamal.
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==============================================================================
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Kamal Shaker, | cscks@luxor.latrobe.edu.au or shaker@latcs1.lat.oz.au
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Student Vax Cluster, | %SYSTEM-F-EXQUOTA, alcohol quota exceeded,
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La Trobe Uni, | stomach dumped. (Using OS/2 2.1, and loving it!)
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From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
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Subject: Re: Emacs & latex for thesis
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 07:26:33 GMT
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In article <369kvh$r26@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> jnipp@unix.cc.emory.edu (Jeffrey Nipp) writes:
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>Ok, so what have we learned here? The software package you are used to
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>is the best package for doing productive work, as long as it can handle
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>the task at hand. Simple enough.
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Only if the task at hand is relatively insignificant, and not
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repeated often.
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A clerk typist or secretary using emacs and TeX all day every day
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to write business letters is not producing at maximum efficiency,
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no matter how well the programs are known. The purchase and
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learning time expended on a proper word processor will quickly pay
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for itself with higher productivity.
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And a programmer would be well advised to learn editing with emacs
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not because the next project will be done faster, but because over
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a period of time productivity will be increased by matching the
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best tool to a job that will be repeated many times.
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However... the secretary might once in a while want to whip out a
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small program, and the word processor will handle it just fine
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because it is available and well known. Likewise a programmer can
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write a single business letter with emacs a lot faster than with
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some unknown fancy word processor. Both tasks are relatively not
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a significant part of what makes each person productive.
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I wouldn't think that a thesis is an insignificant project to be
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done up using whichever tools are familiar just because it can be
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accomplished. Learning emacs and TeX would be worth the effort to
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make a thesis just that little shade higher in quality. It would
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not be something one could switch to a month before the final
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version is due.
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Floyd
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--
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floyd@hayes.alaska.edu A guest on the Institute of Marine Science computer
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Salcha, Alaska system at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
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From: sokolosk@socket.cuug.ab.ca (Jason Sokolosky)
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Subject: DataBase Programs for Linux
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 19:32:28 GMT
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I was wondering if there were any DataBase Programs/Systems (e.g.
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like Oracle), that use SQL, available for Linux????
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Thanks,
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--
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Jason Sokolosky
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sokolosk@enel.ucalgary.ca
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sokolosk@socket.cuug.ab.ca
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-Long Live the INTERNET!!!!
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From: buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert)
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Subject: Re: Ada Compiler for Linux
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 07:34:09 GMT
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Shujaat Siddiqui (dpss@dprmpt.dataprompt.com) wrote:
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: I am looking for Ada compiler on linux. I read somewhere, there is such thing
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: but I missed to save the information. I will really appreciate it, if someone
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: will post information for how to get the Ada compiler for Linux.
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Use archie to find GNAT, the gnu frontend for a translator. It doesn't
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compile to C (despite the 'translator' in the name) but goes
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directly over to the RTL used in gnu compilers.
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Anyway, GNAT is the name to look for. Any other experience with
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GNAT for me is 0, i just happen to now the name...
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Success,
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--
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Steven Buytaert
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WORK buytaert@imec.be
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HOME buytaert@innet.be
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'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'
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(A. Einstein)
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From: joev@garden.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 07:34:38 GMT
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In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu> wrote:
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>Ok, I didn't know QNX costs major money. So I am considering
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>either 386bsd or linux. One person said I should get linux because
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>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.
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>Now the question is, which os better? Better as in...
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Hopefully, this won't become YAFW (Yet Another Flame War), but here goes:
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(BTW: I'm Linux person.. I don't claim to know much about *bsd..)
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>1) least bugs, and stable IMPORTANT!
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Linux is *extremely* stable... If you choke the display somehow, you can log
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in via serial or network and fix the problem remotely...
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>2) more software available that runs on it
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Wordperfect and MapleV run on Linux, as well as commercial database
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software...
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>3) faster
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I have no idea.. Linux runs pretty damn fast, though..
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>4) more compliance to POSIX (I think standards are good, or am I wrong)
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Again, don't know.. Linux will run pretty near anything you can throw at
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it...
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>5) more people using it.
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Linux. Without a doubt.
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>6) more support for third-party hardware (VLB, EISA, modems, etc) IMPORTANT!
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I'd have to go with Linux, because more people (with lots of different
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hardware) use and contribute to it..
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>7) platform for programming.
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Probably equal...
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--
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joev@wpi.edu, joev@hotblack.gweep.net WPI Computer Science Linux!
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<a href="http://www.wpi.edu:8080/~joev"> Click Here! </a>
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From: andy@titan.central.de (Andreas Matthias)
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Subject: Re: NEWBIE!: How do i Print from GS (not over LPR!)
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 18:56:13 GMT
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Hi,
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k.dittmann@wizzard.ping.de wrote:
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: I have a PostScript File that's over 1.6 Megs great, and if i
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: try to Print over the LPR Daemon, i got after some time and many
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: Pages an errormessage like:
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: "Spoolfile to great", or so... (Sorry, I haven't noticed it,
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: and now i'am sitting in my office :/( .)
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Use "lpr -s filename", which should not copy the file physically
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to the spool directory but make a link to it instead. Of course you
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must NOT modify the file while it is printed.
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Ciao,
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Andreas
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--
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Andreas Matthias <andy@titan.central.de>
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Zehntenstr.9
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D-37120 Bovenden
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Voice: +49/551/81377
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From: bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: [Q] SW Technology
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 05:25:38 GMT
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SW Tech ' has been vary fair and reasonable with my company.
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A.R.R.Torres (arrt@ukc.ac.uk) wrote:
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: I am about to order a system from SW Technology.
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: I am planning to run dos/windows and Linux.
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: Does anyone have any experience dealing with
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: them?
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: -- or would anyone recomend another dealer with
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: a similar price?
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: They are offering a P90 (intel plato), 8MB, 540 M Quantum HD, NCR SCSI,
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: 2x CD-Rom for $2499.
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: Thanks
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: Ana
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Subject: Xconfig under linux (slackware)
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From: bruno@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Andrew Peter BRUNO)
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 16:42:23 GMT
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Hi,
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Can anyone help me??...
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I have been trying to configure my monitor, so that I can run X, but it
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has just been a nightmare.
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This is what I have:
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o Microsoft Bus Mouse (2 buttons)
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o 32-bit VESA VL-Bus Accelerator card with 1Mb ram
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Chip: TVGA9400CXi
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o 15" XGA (1280x1024) non-interlaced, Flat Screen, Digital Monitor
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Monitors Brand name is Bridge - CAS Model: CAE-364
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60/50 Hz 1.6A
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If anyone knows an address I can try, could you please let me know.....
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Thanx
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- Andrew B. (bruno@latcs1.lat.oz.au)
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