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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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The Mailbag!</a> </H2>
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Write the Gazette at <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail33.html#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail33.html#gen">General Mail</a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</font></H3></center>
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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 11:02:29 +0000<BR>
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From: Kyrre Aalerud, <A HREF="mailto:kyrrea@student.matnat.uio.no">
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kyrrea@student.matnat.uio.no</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Minilinux fails to load X11</font>
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I am out of ideas...<BR>
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I am trying to get Mini-Linux to load the accompanied X11, but i get a
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error about some directory or file that dows not exist, and a
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"Unexpected signal 13" error...
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What am I forgetting... Is there anything special I have to load to
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get the D.. thing to work ?
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PS: I cant find any CDrom-devices either....
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(I have looked in etc and averywhere else but...)
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h.e.l.p.....
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Kyrre
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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 23:29:09 -0400<BR>
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From: Nathaniel Smith, <A HREF="mailto:slow@negia.net">
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slow@negia.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Lost newbe</font>
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I find it hard to believe that every one thinks that all people know how
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to operate linux perfectly, and that all are born with this information.
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This must be the case for I cannot find a site on the web that teaches
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you how to operate Linux (and I am desperate to find one), I have run
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into people using windows 95&98 (12 people) that would like to try Linux
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but cant find out how to operate it (there is a real good deal at best
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buy on Red Hat Linux) so I bought it and a new Western Digital hard
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drive to put it on, though my trying to find somewhere that teaches
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Linux, I came upon an article that says you can have Linux and windows
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on the same computer while learning Linux, and after learning you can
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delete windows. Sooooooo how about giving us articles on how to utilize
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this great OS, and help hundreds us poor lost souls that are desperate.
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thank you
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Nathaniel alias poor lost desperate newbe
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 15:04:43 -0600<BR>
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From: Hugh Shane, <A HREF="mailto:hughs@tetonvalley.net">
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hughs@tetonvalley.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Booting from LS120 disk drives</font>
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I know this information is out there somewhere, but I'd like to hear from anyone
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who has successfully gotten an x86 Linux machine to boot from an LS120
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disk drive.
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Hugh
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 23:01:25 +0800<BR>
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From: Lye On Siong, <A HREF="mailto:oslye@pacific.net.sg">
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oslye@pacific.net.sg</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">some qn</font>
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Just like to ask a few questions.
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My CD-ROM is on /dev/hdd. When I want to mount it, it tells me that it's
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not a block device.
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(previously, it was running fine.. dunno what happen)
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How can my Linux kernel support PPP? How do I recompile my kernel to make
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it work?
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Johnny
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 02:03:46 +0530 (IST)<BR>
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From: M Anand, <A HREF="mailto:manand@bhaskara.ee.iisc.ernet.in">
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manand@bhaskara.ee.iisc.ernet.in</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">proxy</font>
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How do I set the proxy server for lynx and irc in Red-Hat Linux 5.1/SuSE
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Linux 5.1?
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Anand
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:25:44 PDT<BR>
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From: parmentier remy, <A HREF="mailto:parmentier_remy@hotmail.com">
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parmentier_remy@hotmail.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Help : Modem + HP</font>
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I am close to commiting suicide!<BR>
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I have already spent hours trying to fix my Supra336 PnP internal modem
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and my HP DeskJet 720C under Linux!<BR>
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The result is always the same, no communication with teh modem and no
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page printed on the HP printer!<BR>
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Could someone help me, I am close to abandon!<BR>
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Thank you for answering.
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( I use the RedHat 5.1 distribution )
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:35:01 -0400<BR>
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From: Taylor Sutherland, <A HREF="mailto:taylors@boone.net">
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taylors@boone.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Canon BJC-250 question</font>
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I have a Canon BJC-250 color printer. I have heard many people say that
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the BJC-600 printer driver will let me print in color. But I have not
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heard anyone say where I can get such a driver. I have looked
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everywhere but where it is. Can you help me?
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Thank you.<BR>
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Taylor Sutherland
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:39:03 -0600 (CST)<BR>
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From: Dion Rowney, <A HREF="mailto:rowney@enterprise.usask.ca">
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rowney@enterprise.usask.ca</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Article Suggestion</font>
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I just had a nasty problem this morning. I had recompiled my kernel the
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night before and forgot to tell lilo where it was. In the morning I found
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it sitting at the "loading linux ..." prompt hung. My idea would be help
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on getting around this problem, maybe a little about how lilo knows where
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the boot kernel is, recovering easily from this mistake (a good idea since
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as usual I chose the difficult way).
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Just am idea because I felt like a tool because I had no idea how it could
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be fixed, aside from reinstalling or upgrading using the boot install
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disks.
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Thanks,<BR>
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Dion Rowney
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:51:10 +0200<BR>
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From: Jan Jansta, <A HREF="mailto:ftx@rainside.sk">ftx@rainside.sk</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Problem mounting vfat filesystem ...</font>
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I have permanent problem with mounting any vfat/dos filesystem with
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write permisions for all users on my Linux machine.
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I'm using RedHat 5.1, kernel version 2.0.34
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I've already tried -
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mount -t vfat -o mode=0777 /dev/hdb1 /dos
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I've also tried to change permisions for /dos via
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chmod 777 /dos
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It didn't work as well.
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Does someone know what's not working properly ?
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thanx<BR>
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Jan
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<A name="twdt"></A>
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Last month I printed a <A HREF="../issue32/lg_mail32.html#kooij">letter</A> from Hugo van der Kooij in which he asked me
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to quit using the word "Damn" in the Table of Contents of <i>Linux
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Gazette</i>. I said I would put it to a vote. Well, I received quite a bit
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of mail on this issue, and the vote was essentially 6 to 1 in favor of
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keeping this word.
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That said, I intend to renege on my statement that I
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would abide by the vote. Much of the mail I received is not printable, and
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some of it is quite entertaining. The best, most well-thought out answer I
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received is printed directly below, and this letter alone convinced me that
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I should accede to Hugo's request. From now on I intend to call that
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section containing the entire issue TWDT -- this is the best compromise I
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could think of. We all know what TWDT stands for, it will just not be printed
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there. Newcomers may be a bit confused but they'll survive.
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Enough said. This is my final decision, so please don't write asking me to
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change my mind. As many reminded me, we have more important things to spend our
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time considering, such as helping others to learn and love Linux as we do.
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Marjorie Richardson, Overseer, Editor and now Ruler of <i>Linux
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Gazette</i> :-)<BR>
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<A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A>
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:12:55 +0800<BR>
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From: Mark Harrison, <A HREF="mailto:markh@usai.asiainfo.com">
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markh@usai.asiainfo.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Drop the "Damn"</font>
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Given his e-mail address, there is a reasonable chance that
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Hugo van der Kooij may be a member of the Dutch Reformed
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Church, probably one of the most strict Protestant denominations.
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They are generally quite excellent people (most of the Dutch
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nationals imprisoned by the Nazis for sheltering Jews were
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in this denomination, following their [correct] interpretation
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of the Bible.). They are also very strict in observing proper behavior,
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such as no swearing.
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I don't advocate a wholesale removal of the various naughty
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words from the culture (The title of Audie Murphy's famous
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book summed up his experiences perfectly), but for this
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case, I see no harm in dropping the offending word.
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Mark Harrison, Beijing, China
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:03:04 +0200<BR>
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From: Sean Mota, <A HREF="mailto:smota@polar.es">smota@polar.es</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">links between identical sections</font>
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Now and then I've found myself reading an article in an issue of the
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gazette and thinking of a past article that I read in a previous issue,
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both belonging to the same section (normally the Graphics Muse). Since I
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would like to read again that past article and I never remember in which
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issue it was published, I have to go to the main page, select an issue
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an view the table of contents, and finally click on the section I'm
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interested in. It would be much quicker if "last"/"next" buttons between
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articles of different issues but belonging to the same section were
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available. That way, if I were reading the Graphics Muse's article of
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this month and he mentions something about OpenGL, I might remember
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there was an article on this subject (OpenGL) a couple of past issues;
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then, with the aid of the "last" button, I would start reviewing past
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articles of the Graphics Muse until I found the one I was interested in.
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Maybe this is a bit complicated to implement, but I think it would
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certainly be a great improvement. Another application would be: a
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quicker way to find an article belonging to a certain section whose
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subject is not listed in the table of contents. The search engine of the
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gazette is only available online.
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Thanks for the marvelous job your doing with the gazette:
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Sean Mota
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(This is a good suggestion and one I have gotten before. It is actually on
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my list of things to do. I'll try to find time for it sooner rather than later.
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:43:49 -0400<BR>
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From: "Michael Longval", <A HREF="mailto:mlongval@interlinx.qc.ca">
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mlongval@interlinx.qc.ca</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Linux installation not easy.</font>
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<P>
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As a computer user and technology observer for the past 20 years
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I fear the domination of the tech sector by one very large corporation
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aka Microsoft. We are alas left at the mercy of a company not known for
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the quality of it's products, but rather for the intensity of it's
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marketing of it's products.
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Windows 98 works ok for me, but I'm frustrated by it's instability.
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I have installed Red Hat 5.0 on my IBM ThinkPad 380, but can't get the
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X windows part up and running. I'm left with the shell only prompt.
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I have looked at the manuals and checked the newsgroups, the web sites
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but still can't get the X windows parts up and running. I'm not a tech
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dummy. I've played with complicated systems before. Understand C, Rexx,
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Pascal, Delphi, and others.
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However I'm still stranded. So I still use Windows 98...
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The day I can easily boot up Linux to a STANDARD GUI DESKTOP is the day
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I'll start thinking about switching. Unfortunately for me that day has
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not arrived yet.
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<P>
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Michael J. Longval M.D.
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:33:36 -0400<BR>
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From: "Chris Bruner", <A HREF="mailto:cbruner@ionline.net">
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cbruner@ionline.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">support problems</font>
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I purchased the Red Hat brand of Linux chiefly because of the 90 day
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installation support.
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In a nutshell, at first I'm told
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some very basic things which I had already tried, then when I ask if an
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alternative was a viable solution (recompiling the kernel with PnP built
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in) I was told that my problem was no longer covered under the
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installation support. I still don't have sound and as for my other open
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tickets, only one other was responded to (after weeks) and I haven't heard
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back on the rest. So I'm not on the Internet yet, I have no sound yet, and I'll
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never recommend Red Hat to anyone because of their support.
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Chris Bruner
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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 21:08:59 +0000<BR>
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From: Trey, <A HREF="mailto:abelew@wesleyan.edu">
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abelew@wesleyan.edu</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Linux Desktop</font>
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I was flipping through the recent Linux Gazette and noted the article
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about Linux on the desktop. I thought perhaps I should chime in as I
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have had a purely Linux system sitting upon my desk now for well over a
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year and would not have it any other way.
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Ashton Trey Belew
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:01:11 +0100<BR>
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From: Peter Houppermans, <A HREF="mailto:envelope@pobox.com">
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envelope@pobox.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Linux acceptance</font>
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I've seen quite a number of letters stating that to improve Linux
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acceptance it should have an easier to use GUI et all.
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I'm not sure I'd agree entirely with this. The point where Linux is
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making inroads is not in the desktop arena. I'll most likely attract
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lots of flames for this, but Microsoft has done a reasonable job in
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making their desktop products useful, and easy to use. How many people
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need the manual with Word or Excel ?
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Sure, it crashes frequently for some people, but for a large number of
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users it doesn't matter because they shut down the machine at the end of
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the day, conveniently saving slow memory leaks from exposure. And I
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have a W95 system that tends to get rebooted every two weeks, just to
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clear it up. No need to do it more often. So that community has zero
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interest in an alternative, other than for cost saving reasons. To
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convince those people you'll have to give them something that is nearly
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as easy to use, at a lower cost -and that includes staff costs for
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setting it up. What is needed here is a way of actually restricting the
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richness of the XWindows interface so users don't get the chance to
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shoot themselves in both feet and reduce support needs. I'm sure it is
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possible, but there has been no concise effort towards this idea. KDA,
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Gnome and Enlightenment are extremely impressive efforts, but they
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enrich the setup, not lock it down for Johnny EndUser who just wants to
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run his word processor. Give them a command line and they'll panic
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;-(...
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Where Linux *IS* making a difference is in the server arena. If a
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desktop crashes it affects one (1) user, if a server crashes it takes
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everyone down who's connected. Instantly, the impact on productivity is
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amplified. What creates reluctance to accept Linux as an alternative is
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the lack of people to shout at if it goes wrong. Also, there are only
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now a few companies that offer a Service Level Agreement on support for
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Linux, and lack of support is a very nervous thing if you run mission
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critical applications. Yes, I agree with many that the main issue is
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not support, but not having a need for it, but one has to deal with
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disaster recovery as well, and overall system management. Only now CA
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has brought out some management modules for Linux (to make Linux systems
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visible in Unicenter TNG). And I'm not aware of any HP OpenView MIBs
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for Linux (if there are I'd be very happy to hear of them and I'd like
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to see both of these packages themselves run on Linux).
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Any company that wants to use Linux wholesale will want to manage it,
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and until hard commercial tools are there this won't happen unless
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through the back door.
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<P>
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I would be very happy to see an alternative to NT, if only just for
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keeping MS on their toes. Linux is very hard on its way to become that
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alternative, but I'm not sure it is entirely there yet. Support from
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SUN, Oracle, CA and Netscape makes a difference, but it takes more than
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that to change a corporate strategy. Case studies where Linux is shown
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|
to be a viable Enterprise OS with the associated cost savings, improved
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reliability, manageability and all that goes with being a grown up OS
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will do more to convince the board than any other well-meant effort.
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<P>
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Just an observation....
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<P>
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For the record:
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<P>
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I myself use Red Hat Linux 5.1 on most of my home systems (except the one
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W95 box) and on my Toshiba 480CDT (HOWTO web page appearing shortly), and
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I've used virtually every version of Windows and DOS since DoubleDOS
|
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|
appeared, and all versions of OS/2 since v2. I've been a Linux user for
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about 6 years, having had no previous exposure to Real Operating Systems
|
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<g>. So I'm not an expert, but I'm not entirely clueless either ;-).
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<P>
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Regards, Peter
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:31:40 +0200<BR>
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From: Ian Carr-de Avelon, <A HREF="mailto:ian@emit.pl">ian@emit.pl</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">GUI and novices</font>
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<P>
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|
This is my response to the letters by James Mitchell (Sep 98) and Antony
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|
Chesser (Aug 98).
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Well designed GUI's speed up the learning process because the user can see
|
||
|
that there is a possibility. The user may have no idea what the icon of
|
||
|
scissors will do, or even recognize that they are scissors, but if there
|
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|
is a button you learn very quickly you can click on it with the mouse and
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|
so lets give it a try. That simple peace of knowledge, that buttons can
|
||
|
be pressed, will get you quite a way in a GUI. Knowing that you could
|
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|
use "<esc>d5" in vi will not take you nearly as far.
|
||
|
Not only novices benefit, also it is a major help to users who work
|
||
|
with a program only occasionally. Finding the button which does "that"
|
||
|
is easier than remembering a sequence of keys. Microsoft have added
|
||
|
standardization. You click on the little x button and the program stops.
|
||
|
A command line program could require you to type: end, quit, exit, bye...
|
||
|
etc. Even with a foreign language version of Windows you can normally
|
||
|
manage a few things, just because the layout is standard.
|
||
|
I run a local ISP so I have used Linux daily for over 2 years, almost
|
||
|
exclusively in command line mode. I understand its strengths but I can
|
||
|
still recognize the problems which other users would have. Possibly
|
||
|
that is because I visit clients to help them with their problems, or
|
||
|
maybe it is because I worked as a teacher and later as a designer of
|
||
|
educational material. At any rate I can see that Linux is not yet a real
|
||
|
option for most users and anyone who cannot should offer a few hours
|
||
|
of their time to support new users, the revelation would come quite
|
||
|
soon.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
This is a truth which I find quite painful to take, because there
|
||
|
is nothing about the Linux OS which makes it so. The installation
|
||
|
does not have to end with # prompt and Linux has not just one but
|
||
|
several GUIs available any of which could be used in a consistent
|
||
|
way by well designed programs. Although Microsoft have done more
|
||
|
work in that respect, they are as far from being the best that their
|
||
|
could ever be as their OS is in other ways.
|
||
|
Many people who really want to see Linux being more widely adopted
|
||
|
feel that this does not matter. Linux is being adopted for server
|
||
|
applications and they hope that that will be enough to get people
|
||
|
to make the effort to learn how to use it. My feeling is that
|
||
|
most users choose NT because it looks like 95 which they have on
|
||
|
their work station. Linux needs to selectable for basic office tasks
|
||
|
before it will be widely accepted. Maybe Linux Gazette should run a
|
||
|
competition for a best GPL suit for novice users:
|
||
|
<ul>
|
||
|
<li>Windows Manger
|
||
|
<li>email program
|
||
|
<li>Browser
|
||
|
<li>Editor
|
||
|
<li>Spread Sheet
|
||
|
</ul>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
A small novice package which could be included in most distributions and
|
||
|
start up at boot time or alternatively with a standard command like
|
||
|
"desktop". Would make it much easier to say to clients who's win95 has
|
||
|
died again "Why don't you let me install Linux for you?"
|
||
|
Yours
|
||
|
Ian
|
||
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|
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:24:23 +0200<BR>
|
||
|
From: Stefan Zandburg, <A HREF="mailto:szandb@cis.HZeeland.nl">
|
||
|
szandb@cis.HZeeland.nl</A> <BR>
|
||
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">text browsers</font>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Ijust have read some of the Linux Gazette. It contains quite a bunch
|
||
|
of useful information. On many pages some of that information is for
|
||
|
me difficult or impossible to read.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
The reason is that <B> bold text </B> is hardly visible in the browser
|
||
|
i use. (lynx 2.7.2 beta, alternative, an even older version)
|
||
|
The machine that acts as a terminal to the Novell Server only has a
|
||
|
monochrome screen. As you may have concluded from stating the Server,
|
||
|
it is beyond my abilities as user to install a graphical browser.
|
||
|
I wish to read the Linux Gazette though and cannot do that on my home
|
||
|
computer because i do not have an internet connection there.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
If you'd use other tags like the Italic tags <I>.. </I> or the
|
||
|
Font tags <Font size+1>...</Font size> people like me would be
|
||
|
able to read your Gazette. The browser ignores unknown tags but
|
||
|
it does support the bold tags and displays it awkward.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Here at our institute nearly 5000 students use the same browser to
|
||
|
regularly visit the web. Although we all wouldd prefer using a graphical
|
||
|
browser that is not likely to happen within reasonable time. Using
|
||
|
the other tags in the future however would be only a small effort
|
||
|
for you.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Stefan Zandburg
|
||
|
<blockquote><I> I sympathize with you, but
|
||
|
bold and italic are used for two different purposes. If I always used
|
||
|
italics, the difference in emphasis would not be apparent. There is also
|
||
|
the problem that most articles come to me already tagged and I don't have
|
||
|
the time to change them. I will think about this though and see what I can
|
||
|
come up with. I mainly use bold for the subject lines of letters. That I
|
||
|
can change easily. Consider it done. --Editor </I> </blockquote>
|
||
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|
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|
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|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
|
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:34:18 EDT<BR>
|
||
|
From: <A HREF="mailto:Bobnhlinux@aol.com">Bobnhlinux@aol.com</A> <BR>
|
||
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">Linux is the #1 OS on the Internet</font>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Many of you may have seen these results, but I hadn't seen
|
||
|
anything on any of these lists, so here it is:
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Based on surveys of 810,000 European Internet servers, the
|
||
|
Linux Operating System is the most used OS on the Internet.
|
||
|
Three different categories were polled, web servers, FTP servers,
|
||
|
and news servers. Not only was Linux number one in each category,
|
||
|
but there wasn't even a consistent number two.
|
||
|
Linux's market share went from 25.7% for news servers, to 26.9%
|
||
|
for web servers, to 33.7% for FTP servers.
|
||
|
In order to get a number two position in web servers and FTP servers,
|
||
|
Windows 95/98 was lumped together with Windows NT.
|
||
|
They aren't the same system. For news servers, Solaris came in second.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
To get to the survey details, go to: <BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="http://www.hzo.cubenet.de/ioscount/">
|
||
|
http://www.hzo.cubenet.de/ioscount/</A>
|
||
|
|
||
|
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|
||
|
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|
||
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
|
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:48:10 -0500 (CDT)<BR>
|
||
|
From: <A HREF="mailto:eanna@kc.net">
|
||
|
eanna@kc.net</A> <BR>
|
||
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">WilberWorks</font>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
I ordered the GIMP CD from WilberWorks quitre some time ago and have
|
||
|
heard nothing. E-mails have been ignored; I am getting ready to
|
||
|
actually call them I wonder if others have had trouble with them? At
|
||
|
their web site their FAQ includes several questions from people
|
||
|
wondering where their CDs are--but those are fairly old, so either
|
||
|
people wised up (except me) or they improved.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Thanks--<BR>
|
||
|
Jim Clark
|
||
|
eanna@kc.net
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
|
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|
||
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
|
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:06:58 -0700<BR>
|
||
|
From: Ken Linder, <A HREF="mailto:KLinder2@nos.com">KLinder2@nos.com</A>
|
||
|
<BR>
|
||
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">YMGP (Yet More Good Press)</font>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
More mainstream press! And in a rather high-brow weekly CEO/CIO type
|
||
|
periodical.
|
||
|
The September 21st, 1998 issue of Computer World has it on page 34 in
|
||
|
their "Computer World Quick Study" column. Very well done, IMPO. Also
|
||
|
references Red Hat and <I>Linux Journal</I>.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
With it in this paper, hopefully, the CIOs and CEOs will start talking
|
||
|
with their technical people, trying to find out more about this OS.
|
||
|
Normaly when I see the CEO heading twards me, I try to find somewhere to
|
||
|
hide, but if he wants to ask about Linux, hey... I can talk to him as
|
||
|
long as he likes!
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Later...<BR>
|
||
|
Ken
|
||
|
|
||
|
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|
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|
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|
||
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
|
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:31:01 -0400<BR>
|
||
|
From: David Nelson, <A HREF="mailto:nelson@er.doe.gov">nelson@er.doe.gov</A>
|
||
|
<BR>
|
||
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">In Praise of Wabi</font>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P>With Wabi selling for $45 or less, I wanted to share my satisfaction
|
||
|
with this product in case anyone else is interested. I have been running
|
||
|
WIN 3.1 and Wabi on top of Linux for about five months with very good results.
|
||
|
It lets me use several Win 3.1 (16 bit) applications, primarily Quicken
|
||
|
4 and MS Office 4.2, that previously forced rebooting into DOS. I am running
|
||
|
a 200 MHz Pentium with 32M of memory. No problems with memory (about 13MB
|
||
|
to run Quicken, WIN 3.1, and Wabi) and only a small speed hit (20-30%)
|
||
|
on calculation intensive operations. I use the printer, floppy, and modem
|
||
|
under Wabi, but no sound, as advertised. Wabi has limited printer drivers,
|
||
|
but if your Linux is set up to print Postscript, using Ghostscript drivers
|
||
|
for your printer, it will work fine. My Powerpoint viewgraphs, including
|
||
|
art, look identical under Wabi, printing to Postscript and under Win95,
|
||
|
printing directly to PCL. The Windows clipboard works as expected, and
|
||
|
in addition I can cut and paste between Windows and X Window applications.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P>Wabi accesses my application and data files in the DOS/Win95 partition,
|
||
|
so I could convert transparently from DOS over to Wabi -- a nice trick
|
||
|
for Wabi to look through Linux back to the DOS file system. Though I haven't
|
||
|
tried it, I expect I could see files on my other networked computers using
|
||
|
SAMBA. My total extra disk space is 12MB for Wabi, and 24MB for WIN 3.1
|
||
|
files. You need a copy of WIN 3.1, WIN 3.11, or WIN for Workgroups in addition
|
||
|
to Wabi. WIN95 won't work. As a bonus, you can run Windows applications
|
||
|
remotely using an X-terminal, such as another Linux box. This is like Citrix
|
||
|
Winframe, but a heck of a lot cheaper.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P>Is it a perfect fit? Not quite. I have a formatting problem printing
|
||
|
checks from Quicken on my ancient FX80 dot matrix printer, and there are
|
||
|
a few quirks such as a disappearing cursor and "bleed through" from background
|
||
|
windows in Quicken. But I consider these minor nuisances that don't reduce
|
||
|
utility. Sure, I can't use 32 bit Win apps, and some might say that Quicken
|
||
|
4 and MS Office 4.2 are ancient. But I have Quicken 96, 97, and 98 as well
|
||
|
as Office 97 sitting on my shelf. I tried them and for my needs there was
|
||
|
no more useful functionality, just more bloat and glitz. You make your
|
||
|
own decision; I found $45 a good deal.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
David B. Nelson
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
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|
||
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<center>Published in <i>Linux Gazette</i> Issue 33, October 1998</center>
|
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