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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><A NAME="answer">
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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Guy</font>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<p><strong><A HREF="#tag_greeting"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(!)"
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hspace="10" border="0">Greetings from Jim Dennis</a></strong></p>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_versions.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Version-a-go-go
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and the Tragedy of being "Left Behind"</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_lilo.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Removing Lilo
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from a multi-boot machine</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_virtdom.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>Question on sendmail... --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_virtdom.html"><STRONG>'<tt>sendmail</tt>' <tt>FEATURE</tt>
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creatures for virtual domain and generic re-write tables</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_kernel.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Kernel
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crashes</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_winmodem.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Winmodems --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_winmodem.html"><STRONG>More on 'WinModems': How to "lose"
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Gracefully</STRONG></A> - Just say No!
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<dt><A HREF="tag_basicmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Mail on a LAN Linux
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to NT --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_basicmail.html"><STRONG>Basic e-mail Setup for
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Linux?</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_betterbak.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Remote Tape
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Backups</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_shadow.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
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><STRONG><tt>adduser</tt></STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_dell.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Letter to Dell
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- Linux on Dell Hardware</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_dumbterm.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Hello --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_dumbterm.html"><STRONG>Connecting a Dumb Terminal to your
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Linux System</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_whylinux.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
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><STRONG>Why Linux?</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_redhat.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
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><STRONG>Redhat telnet</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_netcard.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
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><STRONG>Network Cards</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_macrovir.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>A little note about
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"good times" or emailed viruses --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_macrovir.html"><STRONG>"Good Times"
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are Spread to the "Great Unwashed"</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_newlook.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>The Answer Guy --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_newlook.html"><STRONG>Regarding the Column's
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New Look</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_tacacs.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>TACACS+ client for
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Linux --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_tacacs.html"><STRONG>TACACS and RADIUS Authentication
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Models for Linux and/or PAM</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_sendmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Sendmail jam --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_sendmail.html"><STRONG>'<tt>sendmail</tt>' Log Jams and
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Capacity Problems</STRONG></A>:
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running extra '<tt>sendmail -q</tt>' processes
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<dt><A HREF="tag_dialdppp.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>PPP connection and diald --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_dialdppp.html"><STRONG>Co-ordinating diald and Manual
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PPP</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_ppp233.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>getting
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ppp-2.3.3 to work</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_msmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Mail access --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_msmail.html"><STRONG>Getting at MS-Mail from within
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Linux</STRONG></A>: The Myriad Ways to Co-exist with MS Windows
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<dt><A HREF="tag_procmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
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width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Program for
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Mailer Daemons --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_procmail.html"><STRONG>Automated Handling for MAILER-DAEMON
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Messages</STRONG></A>: Read The Sources, Luke.
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<h2>Linux Gazette: The Answer Guy for June, 1998</h2>
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The theme for this month seems to be "vendor support for Linux." From
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the responses to my open letter to Dell, through the common problems
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with "winmodems" and "winprinters" and even to the impossible dream of
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running MS Windows applications and accessing Microsoft proprietary
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formats from native Linux applications --- we continue to fight uphill
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battles with so many vendors.
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<br><br>
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This isn't new in the broader Unix world. Readers of
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<em><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue12/rquarter.html"
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>A Quarter Century of Unix</a></em> by Peter H. Salus should recognize
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this as a as an attitude that has dominated hardware vendors for almost
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thirty years. They've been prdicting the "death" of Unix (and the "death of
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the Internet) almost since from the beginning.
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There is some hope on the horizon. As some of you may have heard or
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read <a href="http://www.corelcomputer.com">Corel Computer</a>
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(the hardware division of the famous software
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company) is basing it's NC (network computer) on a Strong-ARM version of
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Linux. Within a week or two after that Corel Software announced their
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intention of porting the rest of the applications suite to Linux (their
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WordPerfect 7 and 8 have been available in Linux versions for some
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time).
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A little further afield it appears that
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<a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple Inc</a> is starthing to make
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some sense with their future OS strategy --- by "thinking different",
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or "outside of the box" in a manner of speaking. Specifically they've
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apparently decided to skip the planned version of Rhapsody with its
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"blue" and "yellow" boxes that separated the MacOS and the
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Mach/NeXTStep (Unix) personalities. Apparently buried in their
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announcement for
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<a href="http://developer.apple.com/macosx/">MacOS X</a> ("ten") is the i
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rumor that your "NeXT"
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(Rhapsody) native applications will co-exist on the same desktop
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with yor MacOS programs --- and that the MacOS API's will be seamlessly
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supported with all the multi-threaded support that the Mach microkernel
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can provide. Of course you have to hear that as rumors, or read
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between the lines with a considerable background in the Macintosh
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architecture since it is not apparent from their own press releases,
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or from the <a href="http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/top/080332.htm"
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>San Jose Mercury News</a> articles on the subject. The
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<a href="http://www.examiner.com/daily/0511apple.html"
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>San Francisco Examiner</a> sings a similarly hollow tune.
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However, I'm not alone in my opinion as we see in
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<a href="http://mackido.netgate.net/Opinion/RhapsodyDead.html"
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>David K. Every's article</a>.
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<br><br>
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I suspect he knows <strong>way</strong> more than I do on the subject.
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Oddly the <a href="http://www.macosrumors.com/">MacOS Rumors</a> web site
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seems to have no mention MacOS X on their site.
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What does this have to do with Linux? Well, I can only continue to
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speculate that <a href="http://www.mklinux.apple.com/">mkLinux</a>
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binaries will eventually run under MacOS X (Rhapsody). I can also still hope
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that, with the progress in the G3's, and the plans for the G4
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generations of the PowerPC platform, and hopefully the continued
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availability development of the DEC (Compaq) Alpha processor, we'll see
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some real choices and competition in the market place. Linux is the
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one OS that crosses all of these (and Sun
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<a href="http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux/faq.html">SPARC</a>'s and
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<a href="http://www.linux.sgi.com/">SGI</a> MIPS and others).
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Some form of Unix is available on just about every platform, whether or not
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it supports Linux.
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As we look beyond the world of PC clones we see that there is some
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vendor support. There is some hope that Microsoft's legacy will be
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the separation of hardware vendors from their "control" hegemony.
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Before Microsoft it was the norm for computer manufacturers to almost
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completely control the availability of software for their platforms
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--- Unix has undermined that control for over two decades. The popular
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backlash from Microsoft's own unique form of control --- over the
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collective Wintel platform --- may finally completely sever the
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puppet's strings. The trickles of vendor support that you're seeing now
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is largely a survival strategy. So not only will these vendors give up
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the efforts to control their customer's range of software choices,
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they'll be glad they did it, considering the alternative.
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<p><em><a href="mailto:jimd@starshine.org">Jim Dennis</a></em></p>
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<center><H4>Previous "Answer Guy" Columns</H4></center>
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<P>
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<A HREF="../issue13/answer.html">Answer Guy #1, January 1997</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue14/answer.html">Answer Guy #2, February 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue15/answer.html">Answer Guy #3, March 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue16/answer.html">Answer Guy #4, April 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue17/answer.html">Answer Guy #5, May 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue18/lg_answer18.html">Answer Guy #6, June 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue19/lg_answer19.html">Answer Guy #7, July 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue20/lg_answer20.html">Answer Guy #8, August 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue21/lg_answer21.html">Answer Guy #9, September 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue22/lg_answer22.html">Answer Guy #10, October 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue23/lg_answer23.html">Answer Guy #11, December 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue24/lg_answer24.html">Answer Guy #12, January 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue25/lg_answer25.html">Answer Guy #13, February 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue26/lg_answer26.html">Answer Guy #14, March 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue27/lg_answer27.html">Answer Guy #15, April 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue28/lg_answer28.html">Answer Guy #16, May 1998</A>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 29 June 1998</H5>
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