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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:21:44 -0700
From: jason@anemone.tenhand.com
Subject: You to can be a secret agent
I need help in setting up web kiosks for a free-net I'll be setting up in rural Nicaragua this September. When I took on the job, I didn't have a day job at a startup company. Now I do, and I haven't had any time to actually do the programming. What I need is help writing 2-3 system and mail admin programs with a cgi front end. The tools should be in PHP3 & or perl, and be set up so they can easily be localized. I'm willing to pay for the work, and the final web kiosk distribution will be released under a combination GPL/artistic license.
An example of what I need done is to have a cgi for sneakernet delivery of mail. The CGI should scan a list of qmail maildirs, figure out which ones have mail & provide a list to the user. The user can then click on a link, and the maildir will be re-delivered to a new maildir on floppy disk. The script needs to be able to handle checking for floppy/ formatting floppy/ spanning the maildir accross multiple floppies.
I can be reached at myles@tenhand.com, or at +1 (206) 399-9668.
myles
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:06:14 -0700
From: Victor Richardson <darkmoebius@earthlink.net>
Subject: Linux server, Mac & Win clients
Recently, I acquired the job(pro bono) of consolodating a small(12 clients) non-profit's networks. Currently, they have two seperate networks, one using Appletalk with 7 Macs sharing a printer and the other NT 4.0 w/ 4 PC's and 2 Powermacs doing file and printer sharing. All the CLients have seperate dial-up internet accounts except one PC which has a cable modem(don't ask me why they don't all use it). I suspect the former tech pushed them into NT w/o informing them of the need and cost for Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.
I would like to consolodate them onto a single linux server doing email/file/printer sharing and connect theough a shared DSL line. I purchased Red Hat 6.0 for the task. Unfortunately, I have never used Linux before so when it scomes to altering config files I get lost. I have read alot of How-to's on setting up Samba and Netatalk seperately, but never have come accross an article about setting them up together. Is ther fine tuning invovled to get them to work together? Is there a simple answer to this with walk through help? Also, they all currently use Netscape browser, what software should I use to transfer email internally and externally?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Victor
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:31:07 -0700
From: "Todd & Missy" <tmjenn@earthlink.net>
Subject:
I have used and installed windows for years and decided to try Redhat because I hear good things about it but i can't get it to install. I can't get the harddrive right to get it to install I have tried everything but I just can't get the partition right so it will let me install it. I am about to give up but I will give it one more shot if I can please get some help. You can e-mail me at goodtogo45@hotmail.com I run windows98 have a amd300 and a 3 gig harddrive thanks Todd
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 17:44:38 +0800
From: wei <cyberwei@ms12.url.com.tw>
Subject: search for some software !
Dear sir :
Sorry to bother you ! I am a rookie in linux system and now I have
a project to do .
It need a software to plot gray-scale plot of geographic data to present the 3-D data!
I have tried pgplot 5.2 etc., but I can't compile it correctly ! Could you introduce me a appropriate software to do this ? Thanks a lot ! Cheers !
Wei
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 17:55:42 +0000
From: Wolfrider <wolfrdr@famvid.com>
Subject: Request for Ethernet on Linux instructions
Currently I have two computers; one I would like to set up to use as a squid proxy server connected to Internet via modem.
I have tried using direct-connect twisted pair as well as a cheap 5-port hub and can't get telnet or ping to work, although both devices now ' ifconfig ' Ok.
I couldn't find anything in LG related to Ethernet / TCP/IP setup; could someone write a step-by-step on this or point me to something I've missed? (I've checked some of the HOWTOs.) Thanks in advance
--
==WolfriderV6, VROC #59(R)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:48:12 -0500
From: vwbuggy@viagrafix.net (Steve Hatheway)
Subject: Linux
Hi my name is Steve from Tulsa Ok.
Iam sick of windows 95, 98 and Gates, and the way he has control of every thing makes me sick. If he had a good product I might feel different. At first I could not under stand how he has control of the market with a piece of junk, but now I know why. I know, and alot of other people know that UNIX is a very good system. Not every body knows that Linux is a newer Versions of UNIX made for PC's. And with more investigation you find out there is about twenty different brands of Linux all looking like they are better than each other.
Which one is the best, who is biggest, who has been around longest, who has the most support, who is the most stable, I think REDHAT is maybe? Then every brand has several Versions out there , with in a small time frame ,to many too choose from, why some many versions. That tells me that the early Versions must be bad to have to make a new one so quick. Then you find alot of patches for different brands, and versions ? (I don't mean to sound bad, but which one do I use.) I think every body would like a stable and fast system with the least amount of overhead that has alot of support and programs will run on then bye bye windows95,98,??. It seems like to me that all the Linux people are after each other instead of windows95,98,?? Then there is Freebsd that says they are best because they dont have all the bugs.
I am so confused that maybe I should stay with windows 95,98,?? and install and time delay relay to cycle the power to it every hour, so it can reboot like it wants to. Please tell me more about Linux like. Who has the most support, whos is most stable, bottom line the best one?
Thanks for your time. Steve
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:17:16 +0100
From: "Edward Andrews" <EAndrews@aldreth.free-online.co.uk>
Subject: Setting up mouse
I've just installed Red Hat 6.0 Linux and cannot configure my mouse. Mouseconfig cannot find my mouse when probing for a mouse and trying to set it up as a generic or a microsoft compatible mouse does not work either. The mouse works under Windows as a standard serial mouse using COM1, but does not work as a Microsoft compatible mouse using dev/ttyS0. The setserial command reports that the dev/ttyS0 port uses the same IRQ and addresses as COM1 uses under windows.
Any ideas?
Edward Andrews EAndrews@aldreth.free-online.co.uk
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 08:35:11 +0200
From: jan johnsen <janjohnsen@get2net.dk>
Subject: gcc will not work !!
With my red hat 6.0 , just installed, I can not get the gcc to work. When I have downloaded a program, and what to run ./configure the test goes allrigt just until it gets to gcc - it finds gcc but the it writes something lig ' gcc not working - can not make exec."...
I have installed both gcc, egcs, egcs++ and egcs......
Anyone know if its a problem with red hat 6.0 or is it the programs
Jan Johnsen
Denmark
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:01:12 +1000
From: "Jeremy OHara" <Jeremy.OHara@petos.com.au>
Subject: Need as much info on how to Setup a dial-in server
Hi all
I was wonder if anyone could have me? I was wonder if anyone could give me as much info on how to setup a dial-in server? I'm planing to setup a Dial-in server An ISP.
Thanking you
Jeremy OHara
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:23:55 +0200
From: "F. Biondi" <biondif@creso.off-on.it>
Subject: E-mail receiving question
Hello. When I try to receive an e-mail via POP3 server by Netscape Communicator, it doesn't show any error message but it doesn't find anything and tells that there are no messagges on the server. However, when I try using Windows98 (by OutLook), all the messages are found.
Obviusly, out going e-mails work fine. Can you help me?
(I am using Linux Red Hat 6.0, with kernel version 2.2.5)
Filippo Biondi (Italy)
biondif@creso.off-on.it
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 02:40:45 -0000
From: "denver" <revned@gis.net>
Subject: Installing a linux workstation onto a Windows based LAN that uses DCHP
I am having problems adding a linux workstation onto a LAN that is all windows based and uses a Windows NT server as the DCHP Server. Every time I boot up the machine, the linux workstation gives me this error saying that eth0 was unable to find it's address or basicly it cannot connect to the network. It would be nice if someone can either tell me step by step on how to setup the linux workstation or give me a link(s) to documents that can help me solve this problem.
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:24:04 -0700
From: cc246 <cc246@gateway.net>
Subject: How to access and download printer software
I need help with my HP 882C, I can not print MSDOS work.
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:32:51 +1000
From: Andrew H Edmonds <40009722@snetbr.cpg.com.au>
Subject: Linux on Notebook.
I hope someone has some advice...
I am looking to buy a Pent 90 or higher, Notebook that has an internal
CD-Rom drive, so that I can load OpenLinux Caldera 2.2,
which I have just instaled on my desktop.
I am a student in Brisbane Australia, learning Basic Microcomputing.
Can anyone recomend a brand or model of notebook, I have been to the Linux on Laptop page 'Texas site' but none look any more appealing or stable than the others.
Thanks,
Andrew H Edmonds
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 05:13:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Markus Laumann <basikx@yahoo.com>
Subject: windows inside linux
Dear Whoeveryouare,
I'm trying to find someone who knows how to run windows 98 inside linux. I've seen it before, but I can't seem to find it when I want to. If you could point me in a direction and kick, I would be very thankful.
Markus
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:32:32 -0400
From: "Michael A. Lurie" <the_one@mindspring.com>
Subject: ppp connection
I have an internesting problem. I have configured ezppp, kppp, and gnome-ppp to connect to my mindspring account, and all three seem to be doing so just fine. However, when I startup netscape or any other internet application, I can't access the internet. It just sits there trying to lookup the host. No error message. No nothing. I am completely stumped. Any help would be appreciated.
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:32:32 -0400
From: "Michael A. Lurie" <the_one@mindspring.com>
Subject: ppp connection
I have an interesting problem. I have configured ezppp, kppp, and gnome-ppp to connect to my mindspring account, and all three seem to be doing so just fine. However, when I startup netscape or any other internet application, I can't access the internet. It just sits there trying to lookup the host. No error message. No nothing. I am completely stumped. Any help would be appreciated.
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 07:13:15 -0500
From: "Brian B." <ixnay@warp9.lagnet.hb>
Subject: setting up mail for a home network.
Ok either there is an error in this article or Im a complete dolt
I went step for step through tis article but my outgoing mail is not getting my return address changed from my local domain to my isp email account.
I keep getting a sender domain non-existent error from my isps mailserver.
any help would be appreciated
Brian B.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:43:35 -0700
From: Helen Carley <HelenC@shoretel.com>
Subject: Archives
How do I get to them? I'm looking for the original article on multi-threading. Thanks!
[http://www.linuxgazette.com contains links to all the back issues. A link to the search engine is near the middle of the page.There is also a page containing the table of contents for all issues at http://www.linuxgazette.com/lg_index.html. Here you can use your browser's Find dialog to search for titles or authors.
The article "Thoughts on multi-threading" was in issue #15 (March 1997). -Ed.]
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:36:09 +1000
From: "Danny Ross" <dross@netspace.net.au>
Subject: Missing Mouse
I've just installed Linux (6.0) and during the installation I specified a PS2 mouse type. However, the first time (and every time since) I logged into the system and received my Login box, the mouse doesn't move. I have a dual boot system (Win 98) and the mouse works fine in everything but Linux. I have searched through the FAQs and tried booting with bmouse=3D3 at the LILO prompt but to no avail. I think I know which file I need to edit to configure the mouse, but how do I get to the Linux files without a mouse?
Anybody got any ideas?
Danny Ross
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:05:41 +0700
From: Ruangvith Tantibhaedhyangkul <ruangvith@linuxfan.com>
Subject: It's all in a Linux's works.
Dear Linuxinans,
I'm having a couple of problems using Linux. My system is now Mandrake 6.0, which is claimed to be 99% compatible with RedHat 6.0.
Thanks for your help.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:00:00 +0100
From: "Andrew Mott" <andrew.mott@geharris.co.uk>
Subject: setting up a dial-in box
I'm looking to set up a dial-in box for use at work and I was wondering if anyone would be able to answer a couple of my questions.
If anyone can help I'd be very grateful.
Cheers,
Andrew Mott
[Yes, all distributions allow you to repartition your disk after installation. However, you can't delete a partition without losing the data in it (except maybe with third-party "resize-in-place" utilities). Linux requires a separate partition except in the case of the now-obscure UMSDOS filesystem. I have not heard of any problems with PPP security. Market share changes quickly, but people's perceptions of it don't change quite so fast. So whatever anybody tells you now will change in six months.Red Hat has for years been consideredthe biggest by far . However, SuSE now claims to be roughly the same size as RH, both in terms of sales and employees. Caldera has traditionally been much smaller, but have been very successful with their current 2.2 release, in part because RH raised its price and so for the first time, Caldera is actually cheaper than Red Hat.
After years of there being only three major distributions (RH, Debian and Slackware), suddenly distros are exploding from the seams. SuSE made it big in the US last year. Caldera and TurboLinux this year are now seen by many as "major" distributions. (Especially since TurboLinux is outselling Win98 and MacOS in Japan right now.) I'm still not sure what to think about Linux-Mandrake: we'll see whether it gathers long-term momentum.
Distributions keep moving up and down the latter, and they will continue to do so.
Delving into more ancient history, Slackware was the biggest distro before Red Hat, and SLS before Slackware. Each became the biggest because it was perceived as easier to install, more bug-free, and better supported than the previous standard.
Disclaimers: I haven't listed non-Intel platforms (MkLinux) because I don't know enough about them. These opinions are solely my own and what I remember from news stories. If anybody has hard-and-fast numbers about the relative market share of several distributions, and how they've evolved send them in and let us
Gazette readers know. -Ed.]
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:59:37 -0400
From: "MK" <mkrygier@softhome.net>
Subject: I have an Interesting Network problem...an NT SERVER!!!
Dear Linux Geniuses!
I was wondering if you could help me and my school solve out linux/Nt networking headache.
The school is running a NT4.0 server that has four network cards that are connected to hubs that are located in the school. its IP is 10.15.16.1 and the other cards IP's are 10.15.64.1, 10.15.48.1, 10.15.32.1, etc. The Nt server acts as a gateway for traffic from these subnets. We are all using DHCP assigned addresses but I reserved one for the linux box 10.15.64.7. What I can ping is 10.15.16.1 the Server and the computers on the subnets because I passed this route command "route add default gw 10.15.16.1" and the it goes! The Ntserver is connected to another server running WinProxy and it has 2 network cards, this computer handles the internet. I cannot ping It! It's address is 10.15.0.1 the windowz boxes on the subnets can but I cant! (dont worry my DNSes are set and everything) this Proxybox is a router to the net it's other Ethernet card is connected to the net (complex 100mbit stuff, not important) it's IP is 10.15.88.1. I need to figure out how to set my route in linux to be able to ping the ProxyBox and then travel to the internet. Can you offer any advice? Also the Proxybox is running WinProxy for web and ftp transfers...do I have to worry about it? any thing that I am required to set?
I am using RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 and an eepro100 network card on a pentium pro.
Thank-you in advance!
Michael Krygier
Jr. Unix network admin wannabe
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:20:10 +0200
From: Laurent Mulot <Laurent.Mulot@anp.lip6.fr>
Subject: Could you solve my problem, too?
This is not a suggestion, nor a comment so I don't know if you'll answer me. Let's try anyway.
I'd like to truncate a 3MB file so that I can put it on floppy disks. The file is already compressed. Is there a Linux instruction or a software that can do such a thing ?
I can also present it that way : I suggest you could explain how to truncate a file (just kidding)
thanks in advance
Laurent
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 06:07:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: sandeep kohli <fuhrer6mill@yahoo.com>
Subject: VERY BIG PROBLEM with Video Card
Hello there,
i am sandeep from india and i have recently Bought a azza MainBoard with Built in Sound Card (Avance Logic 120) and Video Card (SiS-530(but chip is SiS-5595 (AGP with shared Ram ))) there is a very big problem Linux couldnot recognise the VRAM on the shared Sdram MOdule originally allocated by Award Bios.
The sound card also was not recognised by the new Linux 6.0 version but by 5.2v ver of Red Hat it was recognised as Sound Blaster not as my original card as u guys have bveen doing great work i thought that u would be able to
solve my problem or direct me to those who can
thankiing u guys. u r really doing a great work!
bye
My email address is fuhrer6mill@yahoo.com
(i am calling from a cafe so please do not reply to any other e mail
address than given above(fuhrer6mill@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:17:16 CST
From: Jim Bradley <jbradley@msc.net>
Subject: DNS on the fly???
I have my laptop configured to plug into the network of my employer. At home, I plug my laptop into my home network, and dial out from another machine setup for dial on demand. Unfortunately, if it takes forever waiting for the two timeouts when trying to connect to the employer's DNS servers from home, and if I change the DNS order, it takes just as long for the timeout error when attempting to connect to my ISP's DNS from my employer's network. Is there an easy way to change the DNS servers when needed? It's easy enough to change IP addresses with the ifconfig command, is there a similar means for changing the DNS? Or, should I just bite the bullet and setup BIND on the laptop?
Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA (jbradley@msc.net)
Date: 22 Jul 1999 21:40:02 -0700
From: <murad@123india.com>
Subject: Re : Problem installing StarOffice
Hi, I am really sorry if this mail has reached the wrong plcae, but I desparately need help. I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.0 ( Kernel 2.2.5-15 ). I am unable to install StarOffice 5 Personal Edition. I have followed all the steps given for StarOffice installation. I have a file named 'libc.so.6' in my '/lib' directory which is a link to 'libc-2.1.1.so' in the same directory. When I run the ./setup for the StarOffice installation it gives an error saying that the installation requires glibc2.0.7 ( which is available on the CD ). So I copy this lot of library files in to the '/lib' directory. After that when ./setup is run, it accesses the CDROM for around 5 seconds, then the hard disk for 10 seconds and then it just comes back to the prompt, without ANY error message. I am really frustrated with this. Be my saviour and answer my query. I f you are not the right person to answer the query, atleast guide me by pointing me to the right person.
Thanx & Regards,
Murad Wagh
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:15:01 -0500
From: "Tom Trucco" <ttrucco@orchardpro.com>
Subject: help
I recently installed RedHat 6.0 on an Intel box so I could inexpensively test Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server. The installation of RedHat went smoothly and seems to be working quite well on the box (a consumer Compaq Presario). I downloaded QTSS, configured it and proceeded to run it. It worked immediately. I am having a problem that I would like to know if any others have had. I can directly access a streaming movie using its true file name but I can't get it if I use the name of the reference movie. I should be able to access the reference movie and have the server and the QuickTime plug-in on the client machine negotiate the correct version of the movie to serve based on the client's QT plug-in's "Connection Speed" setting. Based on the setting, the server chooses the appropriate movie for the bandwidth and serves it up.
That is how it is supposed to work. When I attempt to connect using the reference movie the client connects and then reports "415 - Unsupported Media Type". Does anyone have a clue what is happening?
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:29:34 +0200
From: "werner duplessis" <wdplessis@yebo.co.za>
Subject: newbie userMIME-Version: 1.0
i am trying to configure my video card need a driver thats compatible for a sis 5598 or i need to download it from somewhere? please help
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:59:40 EDT
From: TLA9904@aol.com
Subject: trying to load hp 722c into windows 98..
I had a friend install my new copy of windows 98 after he cleaned off everything and started with a clean hard drive..... it took everything but the printer setup... it keeps saying I have problem 10.... I am not even good at any of this.... what can I do... or dooing wrong....
[Since this is a Linux ezine, we usually don't publish questions about other operating systems. I'm running this one because the number of non-Linux questions coming in has not been enough to warrant concern. But please, find appropriate forums for your questions. -Ed.]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:54:37 -0500
From: Randy Copeland <ccu@ipa.net>
Subject: Websites with free downloads!
I am running Windows 95 on my good computer which is a Pentium 100. But I have an old 486 DX4 in another bedroom that nobody uses and I ask my dad if I could run Linux on it. I have searched for a couple of days and still can not find a website that I can get a free download from. The computer tech guy at my dads store thinks that I might have to start with UNIX and then go to Linux if I can't find a site that has a free download. I would greatly appreciate it if you would e-mail me back with a couple of websites if you know of any! E-mail it to me at mhs-trainer@excite.com.
Thanks for the help.
Richard
[Debian is a totally free version of Linux made by volunteers. It is available via FTP, and more importantly, the installation program supports FTP-via-PPP modem installs. See www.debian.org, "Installation Instructions" and "Download FTP". Choose the "stable" version; "unstable" is a pre-release.HOWEVER, if you've never used Linux or Unix before, $50 spent for the distribution of your choice with a good reference manual and tech support is well worth it, especially if you have a newer PC to run it on, because it will be much easier to install and you'll be able to take full advantage of Linux's capabilities.
On the other hand, if the 486 is the only computer available and it has no CD-ROM, FTP'ing a distribution may be your only choice. Install a small number of packages at first, and then gradually add more. -Ed.]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:08:47 +0800
From: kaoc@ever.com.tw
Subject: Booting problem (can't mount root fs)
There's two situation:
One: If click The other: If I clicked nothing when LILO showed up, and let LILO select Linux
to boot automatically by default...
My Redhat always goes dead while it is trying to mount root fs.
The problem message is as following:
VFS: Cannot open root device 00:30
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:30
Does anybody have the same trouble as I ? and Pls, help me to solve the
problem.
I am looking for voice recognition software for a LINUX slackware
system. Also software and hardware for a video camera.
Thank You,
Hello, my question is about the g++ compiler.I want to know if is able
to link files that use templates and then aren't included in the main
program (they are in different files, and only the header files are in
the main program). I have try as:
Juan J.Alejandro (jac@speedcom.es) Girona (Spain)
I've recently installed Redhat 6.0 on a Sharp Widenote after swapping
the factory 1 GB drive for a more suitable 6.4 GB drive purchased over
the web.
... Now if I can just get my ppp to my MCI ISP account (which was sold to
Cable and Wireless and is now being sold to Prodigy) working. They appear
to do some sort of Challenge Response Authentication in addition to
the usual CHAP ie.: there's a prompt of "(IH08011)" (number changes session
to session) which seems to be a combined login identity request and
password challenge which is then followed by the prompt "password"
which presumably requests the password transformed by the number in
the first prompt. If I set the pap-secrets or chap-secrets file then
pppd expects to have established a ppp connection in which to encapsulate
the authentication protocols but I seem to get this challenge in a
prompt before ppp starts up so I suspect it's not just the regular CHAP.
Note a generic MSDUN has no problems with the prompt, but of course M$
doesn't have any useful documentation about what they are doing. Any
ideas? I'll probably solve the problem by switching ISP's but if anyone
has the answer, I'd like to hear it.
Regards,
Hi. I am having problems with my current installation of ghostscript.
I have a 9-pin dot-matrix Epson FX800 which worked fine under ghostscript
3.33 but now refuses to work under 5.10. I also have an Olivetti JP170
monochrome inkjet in the same position. I have checked the versions of files
installed, and everything seems correct, but I cannot understand how the
ghostscript writers have added my printer into the uniprint driver.
All the help files I have come across describe help for a 3.33-based
installation, and I haven't found much specifically for 5.10. Even some of
the files supplied with 5.10 still refer to files that were around in 3.33!
These files aren't around any more (at least I can't find them).
If you have any ghostscript experience, could you please help with a
walk-through on how to print a page on my dot-matrix printer under ghostscript
5.10? I would be very appreciative.
Also, thanks to the AnswerGuy for explaining in issue 42/43 about library
conflicts - it explained some possible conflicts I had in my system, and I
have repaired some (but not all) of my problems as a result.
By the way, to Heather and the team, thanks for continuing to put out a
great e-zine. It's well worth the download 8-).
Hi, Gazette:
I am installing frontpage98 extentions on my Linux Server(Redhat5.2a).
Installing root web was successful, but the problem occurred when I install
virtual web. When I use the previous version of Linux(Redhat5.1), there was no
problem. The list of virtual webs appeared, and I could select one of them. But
now, the list shows infinitely like following.
Please help me. Can you tell me what the problem is?
It seems that most of the mail you get seems to be somebody with some
kind of problem. while I guess it's to be expected, it sure makes for
boring reading.
Anyway, I think it might be a good idea to pick an application field,
say, Word Processing, or perhaps communication clients, (ICQ clones,
perhaps) or stuff like that.
Review products with a fairly standard configuration, and rate the
applications on useability, stability, features, easy of installation,
etc. Perhaps even go so far as to have an editors choice?
It would certainly get my rapt attention, and it's something you'll find
in just about every computer magazine worth any salt.
-Benjamin Smith
UserFriendly is a nice little site devoted to an online comic strip
documenting some of the nuerotic characteristics of the Unix community.
While they have their own site
www.userfriendly.org with all of the
usual amenities, someone there has decided to do some "retro computing".
Someone found BBS software that runs under Linux, and has setup an old
style BBS that you log onto via telnet. (T1 line, 64 lines max) Text or ansi
interface, game doors (Trade Wars, for example [!]), etc., with lots of new
stuff Coming Real Soon Now (tm).
Apparently this has struck some sort of chord, because they have had
hundreds of new users on the first day, with lots of people mentioning how much
they miss this stuff, etc. People who ran one line or two line BBSs in the old
days two or three or four years ago. Looks like this is going to be very
popular once the word gets out....
[NOTE, they have just sailed past 1000 users signed up after a day and a
half, and still cruising strong]
For a quick link, check out bbs.ufies.org.
You have to have a telnet client to actually log onto the BBS at
telnet://bbs.ufies.org
compared to the old neighborhood BBSs I knew just a few years back, this is
mind bogling....
There are so many people there who seem to miss the old style BBSs...
i'm amazed....
My name is Berry Sizemore and I am a member of Tacoma Linux Users Group
(TACLUG). Our organization is going to participate in the international Linux
Demo Day Project. ["Tacoma" is Tacoma, Washington, USA. -Ed.]
"The purpose of the Linux Demo Day project is to provide a concurrent
worldwide demonstration of the Linux Operation System to the "average" consumer
who may only have heard of Linux but has never seen it, and to those that are
not even aware that there is an alternative to running a Microsoft operating
system."
We are reaching out to our community partners and businesses that may have
an interest in sponsoring the event. For general information about the event,
please point your browser to
http://www.linuxdemo.org/ . We are
currently seeking a location for our event and exposure by the local press. We
are eager to promote Linux friendly businesses and organizations in exchange
for promotion of our organization and events. The likely location for our
demonstration will be in a high profile mall, local community center or school.
We plan a Linux installation workshop, a chess competition, a Quake
competition and a tour of the XWindows interface. We are also going to answer
the community's questions about the operating system and promote our
organization as a resource for budding Linux professionals and hobbyists.
If your company can in some way help us raise the awareness of Linux
Demo Day, find
or offer a location for, or promote the event please contact me at:
webmaster@taclug.org
Thank you!
I have tried all three available versions of LINUX and can get none of
them installed.
REDHAT will recognize the mouse but not the video (SIS6326 AGP);
SUSE won't even start; I cannot figure out what it wants in the way of
disk-formatting;
Caldera just will not boot.
I have a Pentium III 450 mH; 128 Meg RAM; and 8.4 gig disk...
LINUX ain't something "Slick Willie" GATES is going to lose any sleep
over...
Bob Hamilton; Mail@bobh.to www.bobh.to
Hello. Quite good article about playing video files. Just one remark.
You said you weren't able to find videos which xanim wasn't able to
play. Unfortunately one rather popular movie, the second Star Wars -
Episode 1 trailer, comes in Quicktime format and uses a Sorensen codec
which is not supported by xanim.
--
in lg 43 Jim Dennis writes:
I don't think so. To me the Bench Mark is the "Broad Arrow" stamp used as
the symbol of the British Courts ("Queen's Bench") and the crown. This is most
familiar in old British films where convicts are shown in clothing with bench
marks on the cloth. The bench mark is also found on many buildings in the
British Isles (and probably the commonwealth?). These bench marks have a line
above them and are miade by Ordenance Survey (now a company, but previousl part
of the Army).
The height of the line above sea level is known to an acuracy of less than
1mm. They are points from which measurements are made during map making and
building works, and would have had a role similar to GPS in the modern
millitery has Britain been invaded after the Ordenance Survey was started at
the begining of the Napoleonic Wars.
Yours
Hi Ian! If I compare Linux to OS/2 or Windows, it's much more command-based.
This can make it a bit harder to use in the beginning.
Especially to _configure_ different things in Linux can be difficult.
So my conclusion is that you'll have to have some patience when learning
Linux. I have heard that Caldera should be the easiest Linux
distribution to install (I'm using SuSE so I haven't tried it myself.
However, I think that when more and more "normal" (i e non-technical
people) start using Linux we'll see a shift towards a more user-friendly
Linux. And there seems to be a really friendly atmosphere on the
Internet where you can get high-quality Linux help
Yours,
Good day.
One thing I know that's been a bit of a barrier to people moving to
Linux are applications that they're using written in a Microsoft
development package and threfore, of course, using all Windows-relevant
functions, calls, etc. If Linux is to move off the server and on to the
desktop, in my opinion, functional development apps that can start with
Microsoft based code, translate it to an XWindows GUI,
and then run the programs under Linux. A tall order, I admit, but
necessary to move the small ISV's and the people who use their programs
over to the Linux camp. Otherwise it's going to be stuck like OS/2 was -
sometimes the same software, but versions that were always feature-poor
compared to their Win 'cousins.'
Something to think about.
Best,
Mark, You write:
There is really no need for that as for years there exists 'sfdisk'
(probably short for "scriptable fdisk" :-). It is a part of util-linux
package although Red Hat apparently only recently started to include
binaries in their rpm archives. Sources were there "for always".
It has somewhat spartan user interface, although in some situations is
very capable and I used it interactively without any problems. It is
also very simple to script, to embed that into "disk cloning" scripts,
and unbeatable in that. Its documentation includes examples of such
usage. I have seen once in Linux Journal somebody bragging that they
fed fdisk commands from stdin (doable but scary :-) to automate mass disk
partitioning and I was always scratching my head why they work so hard.
A reluctance to peek into docs, I guess.
I have no idea how to shoehorn that into kickstart operations
without modifying the installation program itself. The later is
always possible as Red Hat supplies all sources for installation
utilities on their CDs.
I also have an impression that your Perl script at the bottom
of the article tries hard, but not entirely correct, to emulate
the following command:
Beside this list which you are after is basically ready in
RedHat/base/comps on CD.
If you wonder what tags you can use in a format try to type
'rpm --querytags'; even 'rpm --help' says so. :-)
Regards,
The September issue of Linux
Journal will be hitting the newsstands in mid-August.
This issue focuses on "cooking with Linux": fun things we can do with Linux,
or how we can achieve our computing goals while still having a good time.
Linux Journal now has articles that appear "Strictly On-Line".
Check out the Table of Contents at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue65/index.html for articles in this
issue as well as links to the on-line articles.
To subscribe to Linux Journal, go to
http://www.linuxjournal.com/subscribe/ljsubsorder.html.
For Subcribers Only: Linux Journal archives are now available
on-line at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/
My name is Karl Pena
jackal@raptor.slc.edu.
I am an athlete. I've been addicted to linux for two years or more now.
I want to invite you to share in my project. I just graduated Sarah
Lawrence College (where my colleagues and I learned linux to set up a
student-run server:
http://raptor.slc.edu). I am deeply involved
in the non-profit ideals, and have coordinated major special events for various
different organizations.
Linux Demo Day is coming up in September. This is a very exciting time
for me and for linux, and I am going to give something back to the
community.
I am planning a special journey, on bike, to spread the word on the beauty
of Linux.
I would love to post something on your site, or advertise a paragraph in
your magazine. I am low on cash, so I can't pay you right now.
I just need a few sentences to invite any riders/hackers who want to be
part of my epic journey, to come along. I can use donations, team-members,
PR volunteers, co-grant writers, and sponsors.
Amiga's CEO announced that the next generation of the Amiga Operating
Environment (OE) will be based on the Linux kernel. In other words, the Amiga
is about to become a Linux box. But it will have special drivers for the
Amiga's multimedia hardware. Soon afterwards, the Transmeta logo was spotted at an Amiga conference.
Rumors are flying about a possible Linux kernel-on-a-chip (allowing e.g., the
entire kernel memory in cache). Of course, Transmeta continues to keep mum
about what its plans are.
"TOKYO, July 27-In a mark of the rising open source-code
movement, TurboLinux has outsold the upgraded version
of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system and the Mac
OS in Japan for the past three weeks, according to a
market research company..."
Read the entire story at
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/27/linux/index.htm
The rest is from a TurboLinux press release:
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - July 26, 1999 -TurboLinux, the leader in
high-performance Linux, today announced that its newly released TurboLinux
Workstation J 4.0 product was the best selling operating system in Japan,
beating Microsoft Windows 98 and all other Linux operating systems in retail
sales. In results released by Business Computer News, a market research
company that analyzed sales at over 200 major computer stores throughout Japan,
TurboLinux J 4.0 outsold every other individual OS product in the Japanese
retail channel in its first week, including Windows 98 and other commercial
Linux packages.
TurboLinux continues to consolidate its dominant position in the Pacific ic
Rim, and the success of our TurboLinux J 4.0 product is indicative of our
commitment to being a leading provider of high-quality Linux solutions,=94 said
Cliff Miller, president and CEO of TurboLinux. The new TurboLinux J 4.0,
launched the first week of July, gathered an impressive 24.09% market share,
outstripping Windows 98 (9.15%), Macintosh OS 8.5 J (10.23%) as well as other
commercial Linux distributions by a resounding margin, according to Business
Computer News. In addition to the impressive sales totals for its first week,
TurboLinux J 4.0 recently received a rare five-star rating in a review from PC
Computi ng Japan, the publication's highest possible "extremely outstanding"
rating. While the combined sales of all Windows 98 products including upgrades
ee below) topped TurboLinux J 4.0 sales, the numbers clearly highlight
TurboLinux's impressive presence and acceptance rates in the Japanese OS
market.
Results from Business Computer News are as follows:
TurboLinux is currently ramping up its U.S operations at its San Francisco
headquarters and has, in recent months, forged key alliances with IBM and
Computer Associates in a bid to extend its reach beyond the Pacific Rim
into
the North American Linux market.
English web site:
http://www.turbolinux.com
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 -- Penguin Computing announced today that it has
become the first company to offer Quad Xeon systems utilizing Intel 550 Mhz
Processors. The Quad Xeons, like all Penguin Computers, run only Linux and are
now the fastest Quad Xeon systems available.
http://www.penguincomputing.com
Chicago, IL -(June 1999) - Neal Nelson, benchmark guru and founder of the
world's largest independent client/server testing facility, has extended an
invitation to Microsoft and Red Hat to participate in an open, public
performance comparison between hot operating system rivals Windows NT and
Linux.
Nelson issued the invitation as a result of a recently published study
sponsored by Microsoft.* One of the conclusions of the study is that
"Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File
Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server."
*Study conducted by Mindcraft, Inc., a software testing
company based in Los Gatos, CA.
Many have questioned the test results because different tuning levels were
used for NT than those used with Linux. For example, NT was tested with NT
tuning, benchmarking and technical support from Microsoft, as well as
Internet Information Server 4.0 tuning information from the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corp.
Linux however, received almost no additional tuning, support or involvement
from Linux-based technical sources. The testing lab cited difficulty in
obtaining tuning information from Linux knowledge bases, and a query with
Red Hat ended up going through the wrong channels.
(From a story by Stephen Shanklan, CNET News.com, July 6, 1999)
Ebiz Enterprises and its Linux Store unit have released what they call the
Pia, a $199 device that will be marketed through Internet service providers.
Prodigy, one of the Internet's oldest service providers, has already signed up
to promote the Pia, which stands for Personal Internet Appliance.
The online service sees Linux, a rebel open-source operating system, as a
good way to power either cheap Internet appliances or servers at the center of
high-speed home computer networks, Prodigy chief technology officer Bill
Kirkner said today. "This provides a very effective, low-cost alternative,"
Kirkner said....
In the longer term, Ebiz is planning to sell its Pia device bundled with
Internet access for about $20 a month for two years, Rassas said. Prodigy
wouldn't comment on whether it was pursuing such a deal with Ebiz, but a
spokesman said the company is "working on expanding the relationship."...
The article also says sources have reported that America Online is
evaluating a cheap Linux computer.
Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly & Associates announces the keynote speakers
for the Open Source Software Convention, to be held in Monterey, CA, August
21-24. Keynoters are:
"The Open Source movement is clearly at a turning point. The question
is which way will it turn--toward mass acceptance or toward a more
limited impact. Our convention keynoters are in unique positions to
comment on this turning point, offering insights on where Open Source
has been and where it needs to go," said Joseph McIntyre, O'Reilly's
Director of Conferences.
The Open Source Software Convention is a landmark gathering of the open
source community. It features six concurrent technical conferences,
covered under one registration fee. Participants may stay within a
single conference to get maximum exposure to a technology, or they may
attend any combination of presentations throughout all six conferences.
The conferences include:
The Open Source Software Convention features over 120 presentations and
40 tutorials spanning four days, led by luminaries of the Open Source
community such as Larry Wall, Guido van Rossum, John Ousterhout, Eric
Allman, Eric Raymond, Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh, Michael Tiemann, Tom
Christensen, Randal Schwartz, Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern, David
Ascher, Dick Hardt, Nancy Walsh, and Simson Garfinkel.
Further information and registration is at
http://conferences.oreilly.com or
1-888-844-7024. For exhibition opportunities, contact John Dockery at
john@oreilly.com.
Durham, N.C.--July 13, 1999--Red Hat, Inc., a leading developer and
provider of Linux-based operating system (OS) solutions, today announced that
Global Knowledge, the world92s largest independent IT training company, will
provide Red Hat92s hands-on, real-world training and certification nationwide
for Red Hat Linux, including the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program.
Taught by RHCEs with considerable internetworking experience, Red Hat92s
certification program offers more than traditional, multiple-choice written
exams and paper certifications.94 RHCE Certification requires success on
performance-based practical exams, in which users actually demonstrate the
ability to: install and configure Red Hat Linux, set up common network (IP)
services, perform essential administration, diagnostic tests and
troubleshooting, among other internetworking and systems administration tasks.
Red Hat courses are available for the entire RHCE certification track, at
levels appropriate for both beginners and networking professionals looking to
migrate to open source solutions and build or expand their experience with
Linux-based operating systems.
Under the partnership, Global Knowledge will begin offering Red Hat Linux
courses in 15 cities nationwide. The first courses will be available
starting in September 1999. Information on these courses, which are the
same highly successful offerings currently taught at Red Hat92s North
Carolina headquarters, is posted at
http://www.redhat.com/corp/products_training.html and
http://www.am.globalknowledge.com.
Boulder, Colorado USA July 13, 1999 -- Eklektix has announced their
September 93Linux Training for Professional s94 public class schedule.
Building on successful classes since 1998 and a sell out public class in June
Eklektix delivers Linux training for professions taught by engineers with real
operating experience.
Eklektix92s first "Linux System Administration for Unix Administrators"
classes will be taught in Boulder, Colorado USA September 20-21, 1999 and
Septemb er 22-23, 1999. By assuming familiarity with the basic material, this
course is able to delve deeply into the issues that are truly Linux-specific in
just two intense days.
Eklektix92s weeklong "Linux System Administration" class is offered Sept
ember 13-17 in Boulder, Colorado USA. This hands-on course covers all aspects o
f the management of Linux systems, with an emphasis on the integration of Linux
systems into larger, heterogeneous networks.
Full information for Eklektix92s public and on site classes including de
tailed class outlines, prices, faculty biographies and more are available
through http://training.eklektix.com.
COMDEX, Toronto, ON - July 14, 1999 - Rebel.com Inc., a leading supplier of
Linux, UNIX and Windows NT enterprise solutions, today unveiled the
NetWinder(tm) Office Server, the newest addition to their suite of NetWinder
Internet server appliances.
"The NetWinder Office Server is an office-in-a-box for small and
medium-sized companies requiring secure Internet and in-house network
services such as Web site hosting, Web access, file sharing, printer sharing
and e-mail," said Michael Mansfield, president, Rebel.com. "With its
straightforward set-up and ease of use, the Office Server provides all the
tools required to ensure effective communications throughout an
organization, in one affordable and high-performing package."
The NetWinder Office Server provides a full suite of Internet and intranet
network services, including:
July 14, 1999 Garbsen, Germany HELIOS Software GmbH announces its
network and prepress server software now fully supports multiple processors
running the Linux operating system on Pentium-based computers.
HELIOS already supports single-processor computing with its currently
shipping CD014. This version contains a bootable Linux runtime based on
RedHat 5.2 using the Linux Kernel 2.0.36 to support the HELIOS software
applications as well the Linux TCP/IP, NFS, FTP and Web services to
serve Macintosh, Windows, UNIX and Internet clients.
For U.S.-based sales information, contact: European Mikrograf
Corporation, HELIOS Software GmbH.'s U.S. distributor, located at 269
Mt. Hermon Road, Suite 100, Scotts Valley, CA 95066; 831-461-6061
(voice); 831-461-6056 (fax); Internet: info@ugraf.com,
http://www.ugraf.com.
Westboro, MA, July 15, 1999 -- Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ:APLX), a leader in
applications for Linux and UNIX markets, announced today that the company
has launched a new web site,
http://www.SmartBeak.com, to bring
together the support and collaboration needs of Open Source Software developers
and users.
"We created the SmartBeak.com website to address the need in the Linux and
Open Source Software community for a more structured approach to providing
knowledge and managing support issues," said Jit Saxena, Chairman and CEO of
Applix. "We are seeking to position SmartBeak.com as the website that brings
users and developers together in one place and helps them to work together
in a collaborative fashion. Futhermore, we believe that usage of this
website will help foster the development of Open Source Software
applications."
SmartBeak.com users are able to search a knowledge base for documents
containing information for solving their issues. The information is made up
of How To, Frequently Asked Questions, HTML, and support database texts
which SmartBeak.com automatically updates and indexes.
According to Michael Prince, Chief Information Officer, Burlington Coat
Factory, "We are preparing to roll out a distributed network of Linux
workstations and this project provides us with the challenge of obtaining
support for certain components of our solution." He continued,
"SmartBeak.com will be a valuable resource for us and our vendors to use as
a knowledge base, support and collaboration mechanism."
LinuxPPC, Inc., the leading provider of the Linux operating system for the
Macintosh platform, will be the site's first signed software partner. Jason
Haas, Webmaster and technical support supervisor at LinuxPPC said,
"SmartBeak.com represents an opportunity for us to manage our users'
questions and problems, and gives us the ability to route and escalate
issues to the developers in the community, many of which are geographically
dispersed. In short, we expect that by using SmartBeak.com we'll be
significantly improving the support and development of our Linux
distribution."
Unlike many other web-based support sites for Open Source Software products,
SmartBeak.com provides a problem report entry and tracking system to enable
users to post questions or log issues and track their progress. Developers
worldwide, responsible for products represented on the SmartBeak.com site
are able to access these items, assign or escalate their priority and using
SmartBeak.com's workflow engine, assign issues to the appropriate developers
within their communities.
For each posted question or problem report that a user creates, a message
board system allows other users and developers to collaborate on the
resolution of the issues. A user customizable section of the site, called
my.SmartBeak.com provides an instant update of the progress of their own
issues.
[note: This announcement was written by Linux Laptops Ltd.]
San Jose, CA, June 30, 1999 -- The Debian Project has claimed another
hardware vendor commitment, this time from Linux Laptops Ltd.
Linux Laptops is the only hardware vendor devoted exclusively to
delivering portable computers with Linux software installed and
ready to use.
Linux Laptops Ltd. is the Debian Project's second public "win".
The first was Corel Corporation's choice in April of the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution as the basis of their Corel Linux Desktop.
"We chose the Debian distribution both for its great reliability
and for the huge number of application packages the project
maintains," says Nathan Myers, Linux Laptops Ltd.'s president.
"Our customers leave installing to us, and a graphical installation
tool would just get in our way. The Debian Project has concentrated
its efforts on reliable operation and easy, safe upgrades, because
you only install once, but you live with the software for years after."
Laptops with Debian GNU/Linux pre-installed can be ordered via the
company's web site, .
32BitsOnline.com today announced that it has renamed recently acquired
Bleeding Edge Magazine to 0x20.com. Press Release to follow:
Vancouver, BC July 27, 1999 - Medullas Publishing Company, parent company
of 32BitsOnline Magazine (www.32bitsonline.com), Linux Applications
(www.linuxapps.com) and Linux Talks (www.linuxtalks.com) today announced that
it has renamed recently acquired Bleeding Edge Magazine to 0x20.com.
""32BitsOnline Magazine needed a developer site", said Ronny Ko,
Editor-in-Chief for 32BitsOnline Magazine, ""and 0x20 fit the
requirements well." 0x20.com will serve as not only the Linux
community's centre for information exchange but follow 32BitsOnline's
vision, 0x20.com will also provide information about programming on
other operating systems such as BeOS, OS/2 and all the Unices, added
Ko.
""While focused on furthering development of Linux, 0x20.com's main
goal is to further the development of Open Source software and cross
pollination of freely available source code across all platforms to the
BeOS and visa-versa", "said Derek Barber, site administrator for
0x20.com.
0x20.com will be launched early this Fall along with LinuxTalks.com.
0x20.com welcomes developers to contribute. Interested persons should
contact Ronny Ko at ronnyk@medullas.com.
Medullas Publishing is the parent company for 32BitsOnline Magazine
(http://www.32bitsonline.com/) and Linux Applications
(http://www.linuxapps.com/).
Framingham, MA, July 1999 - Antarctica IT, Inc. announces the first
consulting company in New England dedicated to service and support for the
Linux operating system and related Open Source software.
"Linux is already in use in many organizations", says Scott Shaw,
CEO of Antarctica IT, Inc. "Now IT managers are looking for
professional support. We are there to help these businesses with
on-site service and with the skills needed to develop custom solutions
on the Linux platform."
To learn more about what Linux means to your business,
call Antarctica IT at 1-877-DO-LINUX,
or visit their web site at www.antarcticait.com.
Pacific Grove, CA - July 26, 1999--Moreton's chief software wizard, Greg
Ungerer is presenting a technical paper at the Linux World Conference in San
Jose CA on August 11th 1999. In Greg's paper, Building low cost embedded
network appliances with Linux, he presents Linux as the new standard for
embedding in internet appliances and internet devices.
The embedded market includes all intelligent electronic appliances that
use a microcontroller or microprocessor. There are already ten times
more embedded appliances than desktop personal computers in use today,
and this number is projected to grow substantially. According to IDC,
the global market for information appliances will grow at a 76% compound
annual growth rate from 1998-2002.
After the Linux World Conference, Greg will return to Australia to
present his Embedded Linux experiences to local linux community at Open
Source - AUUG'99 in Melbourne on September 9th 1999.
Linux and GNU certification exams by Sair Linux and GNU and Sylvan
Prometric:
http://www.linuxcertification.com
Bay area recruiter looking for somebody to develop a 2-3 day Linux
training course outline: Ziatech Corporation is offering the source code for its multiprocessing
drivers:
http://www.compactnet.com/
(Ziatech will showcase the New CompactPCI Linux(tm) Development Platform at
LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose (August 1999).
IBM DeveloperWorks new Linux Zone for developers:
http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks
Debian now available on Indybox hardware:
http://www.indybox.com/
LinuxPR contains case studies of how Linux is penetrating into the
business community:
http://linuxpr.com/releases/118.html
News.com article
about how Microsoft is evaluating Linux the way it evaluates other competitors
O'Reilley: new edition of the "Webmaster in a Nutshell" book
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmaster2/
Software and hardware reviews (including games) for alternative OSes.
The site is looking for reviewers.
http://www.reviews-r-us.com/
Vancouver, Canada - July 6, 1999: Stormix Technologies announces the
alpha version of a new Linux distribution called Storm Linux. Based on the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution, Storm Linux is designed to be easy to use and
simple to install. Its target market is both the server and the desktop market.
The Debian distribution is already stable and secure, says Kevin Lindsay,
project leader and developer for Stormix. By using Debian as our starting
point, we can bring Linux to new levels of excellence and user accessibility.
All development for Storm Linux will be Open Source. We believe that
the Open Source model is a strong one, Lindsay says. We will be using
the GPL or a related license for all of our products.
For administrators, a key feature of Storm Linux is the Storm
Administration System (SAS). Designed for local and secure remote
administration, SAS features a single code base for all administration
modules, which reduces the number of bugs. By separating the
application from the client interface, SAS also improves remote
connectivity and allows the quick creation of graphical and text
interfaces.
For end-users, Storm Linux includes a choice of:
Depending on the install choices, a new user can be running Storm
Linux in as little as fifteen minutes.
The final release of Storm Linux is expected for the fourth quarter of
1999.
Stormix Technologies was founded in February 1999 with the goal of
providing the tools and applications that Linux needs to enter new
markets. Initial investors include David Talmor, NetNation
Communications Chairman and CEO, and Joseph Kabul, NetNation
Communications COO.
After using the Linux operating system to build a world class web site
hosting service, we were convinced that Linux has huge potential, Mr.
Talmor says. As a result, we decided to establish a new company that
focused specifically on the creation of a powerful and user-friendly
distribution of the operating system. That distribution is Storm
Linux.
Stormix Technologies is an independent company, and not directly
affiliated with NetNation Communications.
Copies of the alpha version of Storm Linux are available via FTP at
ftp://download.www.stormix.com
or from the company web site at
http://www.stormix.com.
We welcome detailed feedback from alpha testers, Lindsay says. We're
looking for users with the enthusiasm and commitment to take part in
an exciting new direction for Linux.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - June 29, 1999 - TurboLinux, the leader in
high-performance Linux, today announced it is shipping its newest English
language offering, TurboLinux Workstation 3.6.
Based on the 2.2.9 Linux kernel, TurboLinux Workstation 3.6 retails for
$49.95 and is currently available from the company's web site at
www.turbolinux.com. It will be available in North America through retail
outlets and resellers later this summer.
"TurboLinux is best known as the Linux leader in the Pacific Rim through our
Japanese and Chinese language products," said Cliff Miller, president and
CEO of TurboLinux. "TurboLinux Workstation 3.6 is the first of a series of
forthcoming Linux offerings that are designed to meet the needs of high
performance Linux users in North America and illustrate our ongoing
commitment to this market. On TurboLinux Workstation 3.6 we've also improved
the installer that Forbes Online and other reviewers described as the best
in the market."
TurboLinux, formerly called Pacific HiTech, is quickly emerging as a
dominant, global player in the Linux industry with offices in the U.S, Japan,
China and Australia. It recently announced major alliances with IBM, Computer
Associates and Hewlett-Packard. The company has shipped more than two million
units of its Linux products in the past 18 months. After TurboLinux 3.0's
December 1998 introduction in Asia, it rapidly outsold Microsoft's Windows NT
(2000) at Japanese retail point of sale outlets, according to the Asia-Pacific
high technology analyst firm, Computer News. Further, the product was voted
"Editor's Choice Best Software Product for 1998" by Byte Magazine in Japan.
Active Tools is pleased to announce that beta version of Clustor 2.0 for
Linux Beowulf clusters is available for download from
http://www.activetools.com
With Clustor, existing applications can be rapidly adapted for
execution on a Beowulf type computing clusters. Clustor can
also be used to utilize idle computing power of other networked
computers.
Clustor provides an easy and intuitive environment to build
distributed compute intensive applications, which offers significant
time and money savings. Unlike other tools for development of
distributed and parallel programs, no reprogramming of existing
applications is required.
Caitoo ( formerly known as KGet ) is a download manager similar to
Go!zilla(tm) or GetRight Download(tm).
It keeps all your downloads in one dialog and you can add and remove
transfers. Transfers can be paused, resumed, queued or scheduled.
Dialogs display info about status of transfers - progress, size, speed
and remaining time.
Program supports drag & drop from KDE applications and Netscape.
Magic Software has formed an Australian subsidiary for the e-commerce
market in the Asia-Pacific region.
Magic also offers Magic 8.20 for
developers deploying enterprise database applications (traditional or
web-based). The current Linux product supports only Oracle and Informix
databases, but others are supported on their other platforms and are
expected to be ported to Linux in the future. COME MEET MEL, Magic Software's LIVE Magic for Linux Really Cool PENGUIN at
the LinuxWorld Expo. MeL, along with Jack Dunietz (Chief Executive Officer
of Magic) and MAD DOG HALL (a founder of the Linux movement), will host a
PRESS CONFERENCE on TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1999, at 9:00a.m. in Meeting Room K
at the San Jose Convention Center to introduce eMerchant for Linux, Magic's
new b2b e-commerce solution for the Linux patform. In addition, MeL will
introduce Magic's new president of U.S. operations, Rephael Inbar., while
Mad Dog will discuss new developments regarding Linux.
Loveland, CO, July 14, 1999 Terra Soft Solutions and Loki
Entertainment Software announce a strategic alliance to bring best-selling PC
games to Linux on PowerPC computers -- in some cases before those same games
are available for the MacOS.
Loki Entertainment Software has become a strong force in the gaming
industry, licensing MacOS and Windows games and porting them to the Linux
operating system. Terra Soft Solutions has quickly established itself as
a leader in the Linux for PowerPC arena. Through the partnership, Loki
and Terra Soft will combine their efforts to bring Linux games to PowerPC
computers.
In addition to working with Loki to bring Linux games to the PowerPC,
Terra Soft will soon offer game bundles with its Yellow Dog Linux Gone
Home distribution. Retail versions of Loki's games, which will include
both the i386 and PPC versions, will be available as stand alone products
for sale directly from Loki, Terra Soft and other software retailers.
Loki plans to bring a wide variety of games to Linux, including the most
popular action, adventure, and educational titles. Loki's current product
line includes Civilization: Call to Power, Myth II: Soulblighter,
Railroad Tycoon II Gold Edition, and Eric's Ultimate Solitaire. A total
of 8 titles are planned for release in 1999.
http://www.lokigames.com.
Based in Loveland, CO, Terra Soft is the developer of Yellow Dog Linux
for Apple Macintosh G3 and PPC computers. Champion Server, their flagship
product, is a highly professional distribution geared toward a wide range
of network applications such as ISPs, corporate intra/extranets, web and
network servers. Terra Soft recently introduced Black Lab Linux, a
parallel computing system for research and development facilities. For
more information about Terra Soft Solutions, visit their website at
www.terrasoft solutions.com.
SourceGear Corporation announced today that it has acquired Cyclic
Software. We are looking forward to the opportunity to be involved in the
support and development of CVS, and we hope to carry on with Cyclic Software
now that its previous proprietor, Jim Kingdon, has moved on to another
position.
SourceGear is a new identity for an existing company, and I'd like to
take this opportunity to tell you who we are.
First of all, SourceGear is the founder and sponsor of the AbiWord
project. (AbiWord is a cross-platform word processor being developed
by individuals here at SourceGear as well as many others in the
broader community. It is distributed under the GNU GPL, the same
license as CVS.) We are active participants in the free software
world. Our experience in leading the development of AbiWord has
taught us a great deal about community-developed projects. We intend
to serve the community as active maintainers of CVS and provide
leadership in the ongoing development of this important tool.
SourceGear also sells a line of developer tools for users of Microsoft
Visual SourceSafe (Microsoft's version control tool). Our products,
including SourceOffSite and SourceSurf, are used by thousands of
customers all over the world. Our experience in the development and
support of these products, including version control technology and
customer support, gives us great confidence in our ability to service
the needs of Cyclic's existing customers.
We are very pleased to be involved with the support and development of
the most popular version control tool in the Open Source world. We
ourselves are active users of CVS, and it is important to us that it
continue to grow and be maintained proactively.
Oakland, CA -- July 21, 1999 -- On August 9th, SuSE Linux 6.2 for x86 will
be released worldwide, and, like its predecessors, boasts a host of new and
interesting packages. The new release will make its public debut at Linux
World Expo in San Jose, CA, when SuSE demonstrates its features at their booth,
August 10 - 12 at the San Jose Convention Center. Highlights include:
SuSE Linux 6.2 includes the latest Linux kernel, 2.2.10, with
markedly improved performance under high loads.
The 1300 applications in the distribution include updates of applications
previously released on SuSE Linux, such as StarOffice 5.1, KDE 1.1.1,
Apache 1.3.6, GIMP 1.1.4 and sendmail 8.9.3. There are also many "firsts"
such as VMware and RealPlayer 5.0.
According to SuSE Inc. President, Marc Torres, "This distribution
includes many features that will be of interest to IT professionals.
System administrators benefit from the state-of-the-art drivers in 6.2,
such as for SCSI controllers by Adaptec and Tekram as well as for Megaraid
controllers from AMI. Administrators of heterogeneous networks will
appreciate the support for NIS, NIS+ (with Secure RPC) and smb, as these
facilitate user administration on the network."
Macmillan Computer Publishing announced
the UK release of two LINUX products in July featuring Linux-Mandrake:
"The Complete Linux Operating System 6.0" and "The Complete Linux( Deluxe
Operating System 6.0". Both are based on Red Hat 6.0 with enhancements from
Mandrake. The enhancements include:
Macmillan also announced the forthcoming UK release of Quake The
Offering and Quake II Colossus for the Linux
operating system, the first in a range of `classic' games due for release on
Linux from Macmillan Digital Publishing this year.
Digital Image Professional 3.0 by Power Quest Corporation: clone another
computer, remote configuration, backups for several OSes including Linux.
http://www.os2.co.za/software
PHP4 version 4 beta 1 has been released. PHP is a
server-side web scripting language, much like MS ASP.
http://www.php.net/version4/
Stalker announced the LinuxPPC Version of its CommuniGate Pro mail server.
A free trial version available at
http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/.
Open source disk partitioner from Linux-Mandrake:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/
Cygnus to deliver GNUpro software for Solaris. This provides a common
development environment for Solaris and Linux across SPARC and Intel platforms:
http://www.cygnus.com/gnupro.html
Giganet extends cLAN interconnects to Linux platform. The company also
announced a commitment to the Open Source movement and will make cLAN for
Linux software available to all Linux designers and developers.
http://www.giganet.com/
Loki Games new web site:
http://www.lokigames.com
Well, the book is done at last. It's off to the publishers and
beyond our control. Naturally M and I are are already thinking
about things to improve for the second edition.
Meanwhile in "Answer Guy" land I was a bit surprised by the
reaction to my comment on Bernie's "parenting" from last month. I
expected a few flames, and maybe one or two notes of agreement.
Naturally I hesitated to even respond to the question at all.
I figured someone would toss the old "what do you know about being
a parent?" bomb at me. Of course, I don't know anything about
"being a parent;" not first hand, so far. However, that's not the
reaction I got. I had several people drop me notes and come to me
in person to say how much they agreed with me. At least one was a
grandparent.
However, I did neglect to add one thing to my flame. Normally when
I "flame" someone (in my column or in e-mail/netnews) I also answer
their question. In this case the answer to Bernie's question came
within a couple of weeks after I wrote my response to him.
This package, a freeware (and open source) product of the cDc (Cult
of the Dead Cow) offers just the features that Bernie was looking
for. Using it you can perform keystroke logging, take screen shots
of your victim's work (or play), redirect their TCP/IP traffic so
that it all goes through your system, play with their filesystem
(almost undetectably) and (of course) surreptisiously install any
other software you like.
The BO2K server runs on NT, Win '95 and Win '98 (and on the most
recent betas of Win 2000, from what I hear). There are clients for
Win32 (of course), and command line clients for Linux and other
forms of UNIX. Since BO2K is open source it can probably be ported
to as many other UNIX-like operating systems as you like.
It might be interesting to see what happens when some programmers
start combining features of BO2K with VNC (Virtual Network
Computing) a package which provides GUI remote access to Win32
and MacOS platforms. VNC clients are available for Linux, Win32,
and Java (among others).
Both VNC and BO2K are released under the GPL, so they should be
license compatible. We don't run into the sort of problem one
would face when trying to mix BSD and GPL code (for example).
Of course BO2K was released after my message to Bernie. However
it is an upgrade (a complete re-write, from what I've read) to the
original BO. BO was released last August. The fact is that I
didn't know much about BO. I'd heard about it, of course.
However, I don't administer any Windows systems and I have no
interest in using trojan horses. So I simply filed it away as
evidence of vulnerabilities in "that legacy operating system from
Redmond."
UNIX and Linux are riddled with vulnerabilities. We find new
buffer overflows and race conditions every week. Most are simple
programming errors that are fixed as quickly as they are found.
Occasionally we find exploitable flaws in the kernel (like the LDT,
local descriptor table, bug that Linus found a couple of years
ago). Those are also fixed quickly.
This suggests that the design of UNIX is relatively sound with
respect to security, since the bugs are at an implementation level.
They are easily fixed.
It also suggests that the design is limited. It is very difficult
to write "secure" code for Linux and UNIX. In particular it seems
that the standard C libraries are a poor base for writing robust
applications code. The most straightforward ways to accomplish
many operations in C through the standard libraries (scanf(),
printf(), system(), popen()) are simply
inappropriate for working with untrusted data or being run in any
security context other than that of the user who is executing it.
In other words, SUID and SGID programs, and daemons should eschew
many of the standard library functions. The programming expertise
required to distinguish between the "safe" practices and those that are
exploitable provides us with a severe limitation to the security of
our systems.
I asked a programmer and design engineer (the major force behind
the design of the Corel Netwinder) about the sorts of bugs that are
exploited by BO2K to gain full control of NT and W2K systems.
Basically I asked if the released version of W2K could fix these
holes to prevent BO2K from being used as a trojan. He said that
the nature of these bugs is far too pervasive to be fixed by
Microsoft in the remaining time before their final release. The
APIs used by BO2K are apparently also used by many other products
and parts of the OS.
I'm not a programmer. However, that does sound like a design level
problem. It suggests that no amount of implementation effort will
"fix" the problem. This is consistent with other things I've heard
and read about NT since before version 3.0 (the first release).
So, I'm glad I invested the time to learn UNIX and Linux rather
then spending the time in the rat's wheel to learn the guts of NT.
The important things that I learn about Linux are applicable to
other forms of UNIX, and will be around for as long as these
operating systems exist. The few things I learn about NT and
other MS operating systems are going to be obsolete within one
or two future releases of the system.
The whole issue of BO2K as a "trojan horse" is interesting.
Naturally Microsoft would like everyone to focus on the "hacker"
(cracker, actually) image of the cDc. They characterize BO2K as
purely malicious. The cDc makes this easy with their irreverant
attitude and provacative "marketing." I personally don't like
the name of the group or their product. However, it would be
shooting to messengers to discount the value of the package based
solely their name.
BO2K is just a tool. It has no ethics. It has legitimate uses.
It can be put to unethical uses. The exploitable flaws that allow
it to be used perniciously should be fixed.
A Melissa or WinExplorer.zip style delivery of a BO2K derived
trojan is a major security risk for all organizations that rely on
Win32 based systems (NT, '9x, and W2K).
We can be thankful to the cDc that they chose to publish these, so
that everyone including Microsoft has a chance to address the real
problem --- and we can only wonder how long these bugs have been
secretly exploited by more clandestine groups and individuals.
In last month's blurb I talked about the Linux reaction to an
"offensive" messenger (Mindcraft). My point was that the Linux and
Apache developers didn't ignore the message while discrediting the
messenger. We'll see if Microsoft can learn from that example.
Meanwhile, Bernie, if you're reading this, feel free to
use BO2K. I'll let you wrestle with your own conscience and come
to your own conclusions about the ethical implications and
practical repurcussions of *how* you use it.
In the past I've occassionally tried to honor a "tech of the
month." Unfortunately I haven't had the time to maintain that as a
tradition. This month, for variety, I'll point to a "link of the
month:"
Meanwhile, if you haven't had enough of my writing for one month,
look to the Linuxcare Inc. web site
in coming weeks. I may be writing to a more "corporate" audience there
on a regular basis.
From Jason Holbrook on Mon, 19 Jul 1999
Hello Jim,
I like the look of your web site. Very unique. Well to the
point. I know you guys make money on consulting so, I will ask
you to help me later when I get ready to setup. But for now, I am
curious about the Windows 95 programs and the operating system
Linux (preferbly RedHat Linux 5.1) I was wondering if it was
possible with a emulator or to edit the kernel to run some Windows
95 programs in Linux or to run Windows 95 as a shell? Any
references or books you could refer me to, I would appreciate it.
[ I'm the one who did the new styling for the starshine.org
site. This seems very appropriate since it's the home site for my
consulting business. It's my belief that every company should have
something that's a little unique about their site. Everyone's welcome
to come take a look at mine [ Translations listed on the mirror sites page:
French, Chinese, Italian, Russian. I seem to remember something
about Hungarian too, but I could be mistaken. -- Mike Orr ] [ Drop me a line at consulting@starshine.org when you're ready to spin up
your website, whatever your products happen to be.
-- Heather ] From Timmy Douglas on Sun, 18 Jul 1999
I have a question that has been bugging me. I have read your PPP disconnect
page but I am just using minicom to try to establish a connection and I am
disconnecting right after it starts PPP.
do you know how I can get rid of the no carrier thing? You said you had a
similiar experience so I thought you might be able to help. Thanks!
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:09:30 -0400
From: Mark Cohen <mcohen@androiddomestix.com>
Subject: ASCII to Speech?
Mark Cohen
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:09:14 +0200
From: "jac" <jac@speedcom.es>
Subject: Problems with my compiler
gcc main.cxx libro.cxx
* main: #incude "libro.h"...
* libro.cxx: #include "libro.h"...=20
but the compiler of Red Hat 6.0 gives me an error. Could you help me?
Thanks.
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:30:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: jwang@CS.UH.EDU (John I-Chung Wang)
Subject: Redhat 6.0 on a Sharp Widenote
[Part of this letter was a self-answered question regarding video
modes, so I put it in the 2 Cent Tips section. -Ed]
John
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:40:11 +1200 (NZST)
From: Eric Gillespie <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz>
Subject: Ghostscript 5.10
[Jim and Heather put in countless volunteer hours into The Answer Guy
column and certainly deserve a round of applause. Send them an
email of thanks at
linux-questions-only@ssc.com. -Ed.]
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:23:32 +0900
From: Info <info@duri.net>
Subject: Re: Help me!
...
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11016) virtwebs11016
11017) virtwebs11017
11018) virtwebs11018
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Thank you.
General Mail
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 20:38:39 +0000
From: Benjamin Smith <bens@saber.net>
Subject: Suggestion for a column
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:59:10 -0400
From: "Michael Z." <michaelz@alphasoftware.com>
Subject: Retro Computing: User Friendly BBS
Michael Zawistowski
If builders built buildings the way programmers write
programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed
civilization.
From: webmaster@taclug.org
Berry Sizemore
Webmaster of TACLUG
webmaster@taclug.org
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:32:46 -0500
From: "bob hamilton" <mail@bobh.to>
Subject: Linux
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 15:24:44 +0000
From: Moritz Bunkus <m.bunkus@tu-bs.de>
Subject: X-Anim etc.
Moritz Bunkus
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:43:07 +0200
From: Ian Carr-de Avelon <ian@emit.pl>
Subject: Bench marks
Interestingly the term benchmark probably stems from physical
"marks" (scratches or grooves), in work benches used by
woodworkers and other craftsmen to provide handy measurements for
their productions.
Ian
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 00:43:04 +0200
From: Thomas H <thomas@snt.nu>
Subject: Your question in LinuxGazette
These are my personal experiences with Linux - and how easy/hard it is
to learn using it.
Thomas H?jemo, Sweden
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 07:34:58 -0400
From: "P. Garrison" <pgarris1@twcny.rr.com>
Subject: Moving to Linux
P. Garrison
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:14:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Kickstart Examples
two aside comments to your article "Mark's Kickstart Examples"
from issue 43 of Linux Gazette.
It would be nice if someone were to help make it so you can create a
script which would automate the commands for fdisk. Perhaps there is
and I just don't know about it.
rpm --queryformat '%{NAME}\n' -qp /home/ftp/RedHat60/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm
Michal
"Linux Gazette...making Linux just a little more fun!"
Contents:
News in General
September 1999 Linux Journal
Volunteer bike ride to promote Linux
[I sent him e-mail and it bounced. I hope he reads this and sends in a
contact address, and that he finds the support and sponsorship he
needs. Good luck, Karl. -Ed.
Amiga to use Linux kernel, rumors of Transmeta connection
http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/tech_brief1st.html
http://www.metamiga.com
http://63.193.115.27/amiga/
TurboLinux outsells Win98 and MacOS in Japan
Product Marketshare TurboLinux J 4.0 24.09% MS Windows 98 Upgrade 13.25% MAC OS 8.5 J 10.23% MS Windows 98 9.15% Virtual PC 2.1 (PCDOS) 6.84% MS Windows 98 Academic 3.87% MS Windows 98 Academic Upgrade
3.63% RedHat J 5.2 2.64% Vine Linux 1.0 J 2.03% Virtual PC 2.1 (Win) 1.93%
Japanese web site: http://www.pht.co.jp
Penguin Quad Xeon Linux systems -- 550 MHz
Benchmark specialist invites Microsoft and Red Hat to a rematch
The Pia: a $199 Linux-based personal Internet appliance
Keynote speakers for the Open Source Software Convention
Guy Kawasaki, CEO and Chairman, Garage.com
"Rules For Revolutionaries--Some Practical Advice for the Open-Source
Movement"
Monday, August 23rd, 9am
Guy is the former chief evangelist of Apple Computer. He is a columnist
at Forbes Magazine and author of seven books.
Bill Joy, Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"From BSD to Jini: Adventures in Technology, Openness, and Community"
Tuesday, August 24th, 9 am
Bill is a co-founder of Sun and a member of the Executive Committee.
He was the principal designer of Berkeley UNIX (BSD).
Red Hat Announces Nationwide Training
Press release from Eklektix - those Linux Educators in the
Rockies
Rebel.com unveils the NetWinder Office Server
* Flexible Internet connection via an external dialup, cable or DSL modem,
or by a serial ISDN terminal adaptor. Web caching speeds up Internet access.
* IP Masquerading and Proxy Server features, which reduce ISP costs and
improve security, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol makes
administration easier to facilitate.
* Web authoring, hosting and publishing, with integrated support for
HTTP/1.1, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Perl Scripting.
* E-mail services supporting POP3 and IMAP4 mail protocols, including
automatic forwarding of messages and mail filter creation.
* Network Address Translation firewall, Port Forwarding and Virtual Private
Networking features as well as remote access via the Internet with optional
client software.
* Cross-platform file sharing and transfer between the NetWinder Office
Server and users of Linux, Unix, Windows and Apple platforms.
* Document indexing and searching capabilities enable users to organize
documents into categories and assign searchable properties, such as
keywords, to facilitate information access.
* Public and private threaded discussion, allowing workgroup communication
and collaboration.
* Print serving capabilities through the use of an attached printer that can
be used as shared network printer. Several hundred printer types are
supported.
* Detailed technical reporting quickly provides administrators with
statistics about uptime, memory total/used, swap total/used, load averages,
number of TCP connections, number of UDP connections, log files and Web
throughput.
HELIOS supports dual processing on Linux
Applix announces SmartBeak.com (a Linux support site)
Debian Available Preinstalled on Laptops
Bleeding Edge magazine renamed to 0x20.com
Linux is #1 in Antarctica
Morton Bay to discuss embedded Linux platforms at LinuxWorld
Linux links
Woody Garrett, Technical Recruiter, Bryson Myers Co., 2083 Old Middlefield Way
Suite 206, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, 650-964-7600 x325, 650-964-7655 Fax,
888-774-3721 Pgr, wgarrett@hooked.net
Software Announcements
Stormix: an easy to use, Debian-based Linux distribution
TurboLinux Workstation 3.6
[Different-language editions of TurboLinux have different version
numbers. The current English edition is 3.6. The current Japanese
edition is 3.0. The Chinese edition is 3.0.2. There is also a
TurboLinux Server 1.0 Japanese. -Ed.]
Active Tools Clustor 2.0 for Beowulf
Caitoo 0.6.4 - Internet download manager for KDE
Title: Caitoo
Version: 0.6.4
Entered-date: 7 July 1999
Description: Internet download manager
Keywords: KDE, QT, ftp, download, resume, queueing, kget, caitoo
Author: koss@napri.sk (Matt Koss)
Maintained-by: koss@napri.sk (Matt Koss)
Primary-site: http://tux.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~caitoo
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network
Original-site: http://tux.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~caitoo
Platforms: Linux, Qt 1.42, KDE 1.1
Copying-policy: GPL
Magic Software news
http://www.magic-sw.com
Linux Games Coming to the PowerPC (Loki and Terra Soft)
SourceGear (AbiWord) acquires Cyclic Software (CVS)
SuSE Linux 6.2 debuts August 9
- Over 1300 applications and utilities on six CD-ROMs -- even more
software at the same price as the previous version
- Kernel 2.2.10 -- the latest Linux kernel
- Completely glibc 2.1-based (with continued support for libc5 programs)
- VMware (time-limited) -- run DOS-, FreeBSD-, Windows 3.x, 9x and NT
4.0-applications easily under Linux
- XFree86 (TM) 3.3.4
- Hardware accellerated OpenGL drivers for all 3D fx-based graphics
cards
- User authentification with PAM
Macmillan: UK release of Linux-Mandrake and Quake 1 & 2
Optimised for Pentium( class or compatible processors (AMD Kx, Cyrix,
Pentium) for faster running, this Mandrake version of Red Hat 6.0 is
built on the more recent kernel 2.2.9 (as opposed to 2.2.5) providing
better drivers and easier installation. The pre-configured K Desktop
Environment [KDE] is the latest version 1.1.1, and can be launched
under the Gnome interface and vice-versa for even more flexibility.
Several window managers are provided for maximum customisation to suit
the way you work. True desktop productivity allows you to drag'n'drop
files and access devices directly from the desktop.
Included is a range of desktop applications for graphics editing, word
processing, personal information and financial management. Special
versions of PartitionMagic and BootMagic are included for easy
install of Windows for dual boot options.
The deluxe version also includes:
... `StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition', a complete office productivity
suite that can act as a fully integrated desktop. Includes word
processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, database
access, HTML editor, mail/news reader, event planner, and formula
editor. StarOffice features a very familiar and intuitive user
interface that allows experienced office users to be productive almost
immediately.
Other software
Contents:
Linux and Windows 95 --or--
PPP disconnect --or--
WvDial Success
Linux Partition conflicting with Win98 --or--
More complex than that, really.
ftpacess and the Incoming Conundrum
IP forwarding and Linux
IP forward --or--
This month's "paltry" offerings --or--
can't help it --or--
ppp & voicemail
Unsupported Floppy Formats: 'dd' Maybe
minicom --or--
AHA 2940 SCSI timeout errors --or--
Desqview/Linux --or--
DESQView 386 --or--
cdr's --or--
get to know --or--
quick swap Q --or--
video timings needed --or--
Help ! --or--
Linux gazette article, July 1999
Dao --or--
linux memory --or--
Copying boot partitiion
I am a begining Linux user, PLEASE Help! --or--
ide-cd module --or--
LILO problem.. again --or--
Question --or--
finding Changelogs --or--
Installing Win NT 4.0 Workstation and Dual booting Win NT 4.0 Workstation and Win 95 B
pc-mos --or--
Hdd track 0 bad. --or--
Benchmarks
DosLinux --or--
128M Ram question --or--
A Fair price for CD duplication --or--
Proxy server --or--
Greetings from Jim Dennis
Running Win '95 Apps under Linux
I'm guessing that you've come across my website at
http://www.starshine.org. Actually I do very little work on
that these days. I spend far more time providing content to
the Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com) where I
do the "Answer Guy" column. (No, I didn't pick the name.
Yes, your question and my answer are being posted there).
-- Heather ]
I answer general technical support questions (such as this
one) via e-mail and netnews. Some of them I cross-post to
my editors at LG, who gather them up, run them through a
custom mail2HTML filter (written by my wife, Heather), and
with a few manual touchups, post them to the web where
they can get indexed by Alta-vista, Yahoo!, Deja News, and
all the rest. LG is also widely mirrored and seems to get
translated into a few other languages (since I occasionally
see parts of my own writing popping up in various languages
that I don't speak).
Officially the Linux Gazette is part of the Linux
Documentation Project (LDP: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP) and
is released under a variant of the GPL (the GNU Public
License) --- in basically the same was as the Linux Kernel
and all of the GNU software which is used to build it and
the GNU software which runs under it.
In answer to your question:
In my past columns I've answered similar questions several
times. All of the back issues are available online so you
could check out:
Brief mention of WINE and
suggestion to just access your Unix/Linux systems from a "real Windows"
system over telnet. Back then I didn't know about MI/X
(http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/index.htm)
a free X server for Windows and Mac platforms from
Microimages; and I didn't feel like mentioning the
multitude of commercial X servers for Windows.
Clarified and allayed someones concerns about
running WABI on Linux distributions other than
Caldera; mentioned WINE,
DOSEMU and others.
List of five alternatives for access MS mail from Linux).
Open letter to Insignia Solutions suggesting
that they port SoftWindows to Linux, written to
them when they sent me a postcard touting their
ports to various non-x86 Unix platforms. With
their response and a link to a "survey" and
(potential) customer comment form.
However, there are better sources of information on the
web, written by people who are actually involved in some of
these efforts. So far the best collection of links that
I've seen that related to running Windows software under
Linux and other forms of Unix is at the WINE Headquarters
(http://www.winehq.com) under their listing of "Other
Related Projects" (http://www.winehq.com/others.html).
A particularly promising package which was only released
fairly recently is VMWare. This seems to reliably run
Win '9x, NT and even Linux from within a virtual machine.
More info at: http://www.vmware.com
In issue 30 and again in 32 (above) mentioned the Microsoft
WISE offering (http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/base/wise.htm).
WISE is a cross-licensing deal to allow vendors to port
Windows programs to RISC (non-x86) platforms. This is also
noted, by name, on the WineHQ page.
The purpose of this is obvious. Legitimize the use of
Windows products on "non-competing" versions of Unix (those
for non PC hardware platforms) in an effort to curtail the
groundswell of support for the PC Unix variants, particular
the free Linux and Unix systems. Microsoft also seems to be
releasing "Unix" versions of some of their products --- on
a few *non-PC* platforms (particularly ironic since they
still own a stake in SCO and they steadfastly refuse to
support ports of their own products to that platform).
It's impossibly to address this situation from a purely
technical point of view. The problems are political,
and have very little to do with technology or even
the finances of any particular product. Microsoft would
make plenty of money if they sold MS Office for Linux.
It would be far more profitable than any sales for AIX,
HP-UX, or Solaris, simply because the size of the Linux
market exceeds all of those combined (and we, as a whole
aren't the cheapskates that many in the press like to
portray). So, most of my thoughts on this subject are
unabashedly political.
Jason Holbrook
Holbrook Computer Systems (just started it
)
Elgin IL
Good luck on the new venture. Are you considering offering
pre-installed Linux systems through your business? Do you
have a URL, yet? (If so, I'd suggest putting it in your
.sig). I grew up in Chicago. However, I now live in the
Silicon Valley (the computer nerd's "Mecca").
PPP disconnect
When you exit minicom are you using [Ctrl]+[A], [X] or
[Ctrl]+[A], [Q]? When you use the latter of these, minicom
should ask you to confirm that you really want to "quit
without resetting the modem." Are you getting that? You
should be, otherwise minicom is resetting the modem as it
exits ([Ctrl]+[A], [X]) which disconnects the phone,
naturally enough.
Here is what the capture file (MINICOM.CAP) says:
Annex Command Line Interpreter * Copyright (C) 1988, 1998 Bay Networks
Checking authorization, Please wait...
Username:my_name
Password:
Switching to PPP.
This phrase should be the last "expect" string in your
chat script. (PPP should be sufficient). That will
clear the buffer so that pppd will see the other
"stuff" (LCP, link control protocol traffic).
... [BINARY DATA ELLIDED] ...
(note: Please do NOT send binary data through e-mail
unless your correspondent has specifically requested
it).
When sending a bit of binary data in a mostly textual
message it's recommended that you use the MIME
"quoted-printable" encoding. This leaves most printable
characters unmodified and encodes any non-printable
characters into short sequences like =2A etc.
NO CARRIER
Convince your ISP to stop hanging up the phone on you.
(NO CARRIER is a message reported by your modem when
the line is disconnected --- when either of the modems
has hung up on the other or when the intervening phone
systems have broken the connection).
---
Timmy
Play with your chat script more. Make sure that pppd
works when you use the "quit without reset" from minicom.
In any future questions that you post to me, or to
the various support mailing lists and newsgroups, you
should:
Include any syslog messages that correlate to your
attempts to establish PPP sessions
(tail -f /var/log/messages).
Include the settings in your /etc/ppp/options
file and the command line which you are using
to invoke pppd.
Look for any of the other settings files that
pppd is accessing during your efforts. For
example it will try to read /etc/ppp/options.ttyS*
to correspond to your modem device node, and/or
~/.ppprc of the user under which it is running,
and it will look for and execute /etc/ppp/ip-up
(as described in the man page).
The fact that the required chat script differs based on
which modem and ISP y
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