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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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Write the Gazette at <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail27.html#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<center><H3> Help Wanted -- Article Ideas </H3></center>
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 08:48:14 +0100<BR>
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From: Per Wigren, <A HREF="mailto:wigren@mail.org">
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wigren@mail.org</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Linux and CDE</B>
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Hi! I want to know what makes XiG's and TriTeal's CDE
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different, other than price!
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Maybe a comparison could be something for <I>Linux Gazette</I>...
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Regards, Per Wigren
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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:56:35 +0100 (MET)<BR>
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From: Scud, <A HREF="mailto:scud@zeus.ho.tranas.se">
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scud@zeus.ho.tranas.se</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>article idea</B>
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I wonder if you can write some article about linux
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on non x86 platforms and how long linux develelopment
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has come on those platforms?
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emir
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:47:55 +0100<BR>
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From: Grzegorz Leszczynski, <A HREF="mailto:rexus@polbox.com">
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rexus@polbox.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Hurricane</B>
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I would be very grateful if you could help me with my problem.
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I can't install Linux Red Hat Hurricane 5.0.
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After choosing the partitions to Linux native and for swap Linux,
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and after choosing applications to install program says
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that there is an error:
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<pre>mount failed: invalid argument</pre>
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After than i must return to menu and I don't know what to do.
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I look forward from hearings from you
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Rafal Leszczynski, POLAND
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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:11:18 -0500 (EST)<BR>
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From: N. Lucent, <A HREF="mailto:nlucent@mindspring.com">
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nlucent@mindspring.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Linux on a laptop</B>
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<P>
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I finally convinced my girlfriend to make the switch to Linux from windows
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after she suffered numerous stability problems (big surprise) She
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currently has an HP Omni-book 600CT, I fdisked her windows partition, and
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when I ran the install boot disk (for both Red Hat and Slackware) it says
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floppy 1.44m (I assume this is from the kernel) Then it says no floppy
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controller found, and just keeps reading the boot disk. Is there anyway
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that I can force the detection of the floppy? (external floppy drive)
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I found a WWW page about installing Linux on that notebook, but What it
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said to do didn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 03:09:06 EST<BR>
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From: Mktnc, <A HREF="mailto:Mktnc@aol.com">Mktnc@aol.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Matrox Millenium II</B>
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Anyone using the Matrox Millenium II graphics board with greater than 4 Meg
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ram with Xfree86? The XFree86 home page is somewhat dated on this card.
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Also, anyone running a Voodoo 2 accelerator graphix card with Linux?
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Anyone using nasm (Netwide Assembler) for those hard to reach places, under
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Linux?
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Thanks - Nick
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:05:00 -0500<BR>
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From: Dr. Scott Searcy, <A HREF="mailto:searcys@baydenoc.cc.mi.us">
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searcys@baydenoc.cc.mi.us</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>X-term for MS-Windows </B>
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Does anyone make an X-windows terminal emulator that will run under
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MS-Windows. I was hoping to find such a program so that I could use X
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via a network connection from various MS-windows machines that I have to
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use.
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Dr. Scott Searcy
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 23:38:29 -0700<BR>
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From: Elvis Chow, <A HREF="mailto:elvis3@chowtech.cuug.ab.ca">
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elvis3@chowtech.cuug.ab.ca</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Hylafax printing filter?</B>
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I finally got Hylafax running on a Slackware distribution. Works
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great. What I need to do now is to get Applixware to print a doc
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directly to it so it can automatically fax it to a predetermined
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number. Is there a way of doing this?
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Great work on the Gazette! Best source of practical tips I've run
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across in a long time. Keep it up!!
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Elvis Chow elvis@chowtech.cuug.ab.ca
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 18:42:43 +0100<BR>
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From: Stefano Stracuzzi, <A HREF="mailto:stracca@comune.modena.it">
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stracca@comune.modena.it</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>PPP with Linux</B>
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I'm a newbie in Linux and I'd like to know
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how I can configure my connection to my
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Internet service provider with my Red Hat 5.0!
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My modem is internal and it is configured to on the
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cua1
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Thank You Very Much<BR>
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Stefano Stracuzzi
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:43:30 -0800<BR>
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From: jean-francois helie, <A HREF="mailto:jfhelie@netrover.com">
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jfhelie@netrover.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Help Wanted!</B>
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I am a student at CEGEP T.R. I have a year end project. My project
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is to installed a Linux based router and a IP generator for 50 PC. I have
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some informations about the router but i don't have any info about IP
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generator.
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Thank you for your support.<BR>
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Jean-Francois Helie
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:51:30 +1000<BR>
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From: Ken Woodward, <A HREF="mailto:ken@rich.com.au">ken@rich.com.au</A>
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<BR>
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Subject: <B>Linux for Amiga</B>
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Do you know if it is possible to get a CD distribution of Linux to suit
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running on an Amiga 3000? It is currently running AmigaUnix, and the Red
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Hat version 5 copy I purchased installed flawlessly on my PC.
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Can I get the same for the old Amiga?
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Thanks<BR>
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Ken
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:58:10 -0800<BR>
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From: Kevin Long, <A HREF="mailto:kevjlong@ix.netcom.com">
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kevjlong@ix.netcom.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Samba Woes</B>
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Here's my situation: I'm trying to set up my RH5 terrifically working
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system to be a PDC equivalent in an NT workstation/95 network. Basically
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we need to 'login' to the server, and then get access to 'shares'. I
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tried using NFS as an alternative (with NFS maestro) but it doesn't
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recognize Linux NFS. However...... I cannot get Samba to work AT ALL. In
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fact, I have never seen it work. If you've got it working, please help
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me - I can copy your installation configuration and tweak it, but I need
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some success. I have plenty of NT, Novel, DOS/win hardware etc.
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experience, and successfully use NFS exports between Linux machines, but
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have got nowhere with Samba in a year of trying. Is it a hoax?
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Kevin Long
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<blockquote> <I>
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(See the Samba page, http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/. It should be just what
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you need. --Editor)</I> </blockquote>
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:55:56 +0800<BR>
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From: Jason Wong, <A HREF="mailto:jasonw@tntexpress.com.hk">
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jasonw@tntexpress.com.hk</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Red hat 5.0 with NT Server 4</B>
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<P>
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I am new to Linux, and wish to set it up at home. The problem I have
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is:
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I wish to run Windows NT + Windows 95 + DOS + Linux. How to do this?
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I can set it up with Linux & Windows 95/DOS, but how to make Linux
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co-exist with NT server4?? many thanks!!
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:18:33 +0100 (MET)<BR>
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From: Fabio Gregoroni, <A HREF="mailto:gregoron@CsR.UniBo.IT">
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gregoron@CsR.UniBo.IT</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Driver For Scanner</B>
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I have to write a driver for a plain scanner on the parallel port.
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I have following scanners:
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<ol>
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<li>PRIMAX 4800 COLORADO DIRECT
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<li>PLUSTEK 4830P
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</ol>
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I don't need the driver already made, but I need only the transfer
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protocol documentation ( what I must send and receive ).
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Can Someone help me ?
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Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 04:53:01 +0800<BR>
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From: ahyeop, <A HREF="mailto:ahyeop4@tm.net.my">ahyeop4@tm.net.my</A>
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Subject: <B>X-Windows too Big!</B>
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<P>
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Lastly I successful install the X-windows for my Linux box using generic
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chip set or
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Oak's OTI067 (8 physical RAM is quite slow though..). But the windows
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are too BIG.
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I tried modified its XF86Config but it's not working (besides I really
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doesn't know
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how to modified it correctly)
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My box spec : processor: 486 DX2 60MHz.
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RAM: 8 simm ram
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Swap memory: 16 swap ram (I think so...)
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memory: 256 Kbytes
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RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (what it
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mean ?)
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Linux: Linux ver. 2.0.27 (Slackware 96)
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monitor: SVGA monitor (SSVM's 220-240V-50MHz
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500mA)
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video card: Oak's OTI067
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mouse: MS Mouse
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Keyboard: 101-key
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</pre>
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Can anybody help me with problem ? Thank in advance :-)
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Ahyeop, Perak, Malaysia
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:25:32 -0100<BR>
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From: BoD, <A HREF="mailto:M39998@lazaro.info-ab.uclm.es">
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M39998@lazaro.info-ab.uclm.es</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>AGP card on Linux</B>
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I like to buy a AGP card based in the nVIDIA RIVA 128 chipset.
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Can i use it on my Linux RH 5.0 system with Xfree86 3.3.1?
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<P>
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Thanks
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:41:11 -0800 (PST)<BR>
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From: Lee, <A HREF="mailto:cit@itl.net">cit@itl.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Re: Linux Gazette</B>
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I've recently been hit by the superforker problem. Someone mentioned that the LG had a script to fix the problem (by removing the directories in /tmp)
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Do you have such a script? I haven't been able to locate it, and I currently have a ton of directories in /tmp that rm won't remove because the filename is too long.
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Please respond quickly while I still have some hair left,<BR>
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Lee//Cit
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(Sorry, I don't remember all the articles we've had, but superforker doesn't
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sound familiar.
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However, in issue 18 and 20, Guy Geens has articles about cleaning up the
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/tmp directory. Perhaps these will be of help to you. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:06:39 +0100 <BR>
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From: javier ballesteros, <A HREF="mailto:uei0372195900@eurociber.es">
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uei0372195900@eurociber.es</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>modem for Linux</B>
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<P>
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I'm a student of telecommunications in the University of Alcala de
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Henares in Spain, my computer is a Pentium 233 MHz and I have installed
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Red Hat Linux 5.0, all works properly , but I have a little problem with
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my modem: Linux can't recognize my modem. My modem is a HSP 336 DELUXE
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(I know that is very bad but is the only I have). So, is there any
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possible to install properly my modem? , exist any driver for this
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specific modem? .Please send me some information or any advice, if you
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can I will be pleasant.
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See you!....
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:22:02 -0500<BR>
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From: BRANDON DIGGS, <A HREF="mailto:diggs@early.com">diggs@early.com</A>
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Subject: Help!
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<P>
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Could you please eather tell me or point me to where I can find a complete
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or almost complete list of commands for Red Hat Linux and also for the use of
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making a MUD. Thanks for all the help,
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<P>
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Jeremy
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Not asking a lot, are you? I'd look on the <A
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HREF="http://www.redhat.com/>Red Hat site</A> for the documentation.
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Failing that, there are lots of good books, <I>Linux in a Nutshell</I> from
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O'Reilly for one, and the new <I>Linux for Dummies</I> from IDG. As for
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making a MUD, someone else will have to help with that one. --Editor)
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:39:33 -0700 (MST)<BR>
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From: Michael J. Hammel, <A HREF="mailto:mjhammel@csn.net">
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mjhammel@csn.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Late Night Radio Buzz</B>
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<P>
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I'm sitting here listening to C|Net radios
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coverage of Internet World. Dan Shafer of Builder.com talked at length
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about how he (and someone named Desmond) are going to do some
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serious investigation into what alternative OS's there are - and
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specifically they are looking into Linux. They mentioned Red Hat and
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Caldera, that there were lots of applications available and how the Linux
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community are very much the "just do it" community. All in all, very
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positive exposure.
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Go to http://www.news.com/Radio/Features/0,155,154,0.html and click on the
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4:00 CNET Radio Late Update (where it says "Dan Shafer of Builder.com:
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What's Hot?"). Its a RealAudio interview and you'll have to go about 1/2
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way through before they start the Linux discussion.
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Dan Shafer said they would be writing up the Linux results they came up
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with in the BuilderBuzz section of Builder.com (http://builder.com). I
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just checked and there is nothing there yet - I think he said it was going
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to start next week. Anyway, I sent him email offering to assist in anyway
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I could. If I get a response I'll try to get more details on where the
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info will be located when it becomes available.
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C|Net would be wonderful exposure for Linux.
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Just thought I'd pass this along.
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:22:14 +0500<BR>
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From: Larry Taranenko, <A HREF="mailto:larry@partners.chel.su">
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larry@partners.chel.su</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B> Re: Linux Gazette #26</B>
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<p>
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You know, we are here interesting in Linux too. But we have much troubles
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with our unstable connection to the World - that is why I maintained LG
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mirror in the heart (geographically we live in the center of RUSSIA) of
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my country. And I have many many friends in my town (apr. 2,5 mln city
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named Chelyabinsk) who are crazy about Linux as I am. Mostly we use
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Debian. I like your publications - and think that a little note
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somewhere there about Linuxoids in RUSSIA will be, maybe, interesting to
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somebody. See in future.
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I hope you understand me in right manner, against my silly English...<BR>
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God bless you and Linus, <BR>
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Have a nice day!<BR>
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Ta-ta
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(I think I understand you fine. Why don't you write up an article for us
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about Linux in Russia? --Editor) </I> </blockquote>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 03:49:43 -0500 (EST)<BR>
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From: <A HREF="mailto:zaeb@8b28m2.net">zaeb@8b28m2.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>about filedudes</B>
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hey, found this real fast download site www.filedudes.com,
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check it out!
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Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 22:51:10 -0800<BR>
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From: Ken Leyba, <A HREF="mailto:kleyba@pacbell.net">kleyba@pacbell.net</A>
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<BR>
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Subject: <B>$0.02 Tip</B>
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In issue 26 of the Linux Gazette there is a two cent tip that refers to
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the VAX 3400/3300's as MIPS 3000 boxes. These are indeed VAX
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processors as Digital (DEC) named MIPS boxes as DECStations/DECServers
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and VAX boxes as VAXStations/VAXServers. I worked for Digital for over
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10 years in Multi-Vendor Customer Services and currently use a VAX 3300
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running Ultrix, DEC's BSD based Unix for the VAX CPU.
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Ken Leyba
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:09:28 -0500<BR>
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From: Tunney, Sue (IDS), <A
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HREF="mailto:STunney@ahcpr.gov">STunney@ahcpr.gov</A><BR>
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Subject: <B>Yes, Grammar does count</B>
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I was so pleased to read that *someone* else out there is as aggravated
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as I am by the continual misuse of the apostrophe in web pages and
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e-mails by obvious native-born American English speakers. And for
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anyone who says, "What's the big deal? Doesn't everyone know what I
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mean?", let this old fogey respond:
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Does your computer understand what you mean when you make an error
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writing code? Doesn't it matter then? If you can't write proper English
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grammar and spell correctly, what makes you so sure that your computer
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code is correct? And if you want to spread the good news about Linux, it
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seems obvious that we will get more attention, and the right kind, if we
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take the time to write properly. I'm often impressed by how hard the
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"foreign" letter writers work to make their point clear when they write
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to LG, often apologizing for their poor English; yet they often do
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better than us "natives."
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Mike, you are absolutely right, and I thank you for saying it. I would
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also like to eliminate the so-called word "alot" as *there is no such
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word* (but note that the next letter after Mike's used it. Oh, well...)
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. If you can't drag out a dictionary, check it out on line; there are
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lots of fine dictionaries out there.
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:24:03 -0800<BR>
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From: Rich Drewes, <A HREF="mailto:drewes@interstice.com">
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drewes@interstice.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Linux market share (news tidbit)</B>
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I run an ISP that hosts a variety of customer-owned domains, most not
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even specifically computer related. I recently did an analysis of the
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agent_log files to find out how popular Linux really is as a client OS
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for ordinary users who access the ordinary web pages. The results are
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at:
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http://www.interstice.com/~drewes/linuxcount/main.html
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One interesting factoid: Linux now appears to be the #2 most popular
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Unix OS client!
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I enjoy the LG. Thanks for the work.<BR>
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Rich
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:38:36 -0500 (EST)<BR>
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From: Tim Gray, <A
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HREF="mailto:timgray@lambdanet.com">timgray@lambdanet.com </A> <BR>
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Subject: <B>Re: Getting Linux to the public...</B>
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Milton, thank you for your response (see <A
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HREF="./lg_tips27.html#milton">Tips</A>)... your's was the first that was genuinely
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helpful, I have learned many things after posting that letter to the
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Gazette, one of which is that the Linux user crowd is not free of the
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type of person that enjoys flaming others, (I had secretly hoped that
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Linux users were more helpful than resentful) But thank you! It helps
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alot to fiddle with the settings and I was successful in getting 2 friends
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converted to Linux, unfortunately there are several colleagues that alas
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have monitors that are older than dirt itself and cannot go beyond
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640X480 :-) But you have helped me migrate 2 windows users! thank you..
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and thank you for your supportive letter.
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:09:41 -0500<BR>
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From: NYACC AnyNix SIG comm mgr, <A HREF="mailto:sigunix@bzsys.dyn.ml.org">
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sigunix@bzsys.dyn.ml.org</A>
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Subject: <B>Re: Getting Linux to the public...</B>
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Timothy D. Gray wrote regarding: Getting Linux to the public:
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<blockquote> <I>
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Has anyone noticed that when your friends see your neat-o Linux system
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with the nice 17 inch monitor, high quality video card, and fast
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computer that when they say, "Wow! that is nice, and you can do almost
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anything on that!" you cringe with the fact that they are going to
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want you to put it on their system?
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</I> </blockquote>
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I'm glad you have a 17inch monitor and "highquality" video card.
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Myself, my 50-dollar video card and ten-year-old monitor let me run in
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800x600 with 256 colors. I could get 1024x768 if the monitor allowed it.
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I could get 64K colors (16-bit) if XFree86 allowed it. This is a
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limitation not of the hardware, not exactly of Linux, but of the XFree86
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people who don't wish to take the trouble to support the inexpensive
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cards on the market.
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My present (Oak) card seems to be limited to 8-bit color in any
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event, my other (Cirrus Logic) card will support 16-bit and 24-bit
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color, which if fully supported would allow me 64K colors at 800x600 or
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16M colors at 640x480 (with a virtual 800x600 window).
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The people at XFree86 (one of them a Cirrus employee) have, by their
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own statement, chosen to spend their time on the latest and greatest
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cards, with the older, cheaper cards going by the board.
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I have tried and failed to get the necessary information from Cirrus
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Logic to rewrite the XFree driver to better use the card.
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<blockquote> <I>
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Now mind you, I don't cringe on sharing the best O/S on the planet, In
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fact I want everyone to use Linux.
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It's just that almost all X windows software is written for 1024 X 768
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or higher resolution video screens and that 99% of those wanting to
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use Linux and X windows only have a 14" monitor that can barely get
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past 640X480 at 256 colors.
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</I> </blockquote>
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See above. For a cost of no more than $50 they should be able to get a
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1MB video card that will handle *much* better resolution.
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<blockquote> <I>
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I tried several times to get friends into Linux and X but to no avail
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because the software developed for X is for those that have Gobs of
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money for good video boards and humoungous monitors.
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It's not a limitation of Linux or X, it that the software that is
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developed for these platforms are by professionals or professional
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users that can afford that new 21 inch monitor at the computer store.
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</I> </blockquote>
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You might try pushing different programs. My main problem (except with
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viewers for Adobe file formats) is getting *multiple* windows on the
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screen at once. Also, certain *types* of applications, by their very
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nature, demand lots of screen real estate. An application of that sort
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is going to be cramped on a small screen *regardless* of underlying OS
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support. I simply avoid such applications until I can acquire a larger
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screen (about $500, locally).
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<blockquote> <I>
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We as a group might want to see software scaled back to the 640X480
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crowd.. then Linux would take the world by storm.. Until then It's
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going to be limited to us pioneers and Scientists...
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</I> </blockquote>
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Actually, the *biggest* barrier to using Linux X Apps is that so many of
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them are written using Motif! That's almost as bad as WinDoze.
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--Buz Cory :)
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