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<li><A HREF="#wanted/1"
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><strong>radius</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#wanted/2"
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><strong>HTML/CSS question - useful for dicussion</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#wanted/3"
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><strong>neighbour table overflow</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#wanted/4"
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<FONT COLOR="navy">radius</FONT></H3>
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Wed, 7 Nov 2001 00:41:46 +0200
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<BR>hakan bilginer (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=hakanb@vestelnet.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20help%20wanted%20%231">hakanb from vestelnet.com</a>)
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Hello,
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I wonder if it's possible to make a radius server on linux to
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authenticate the users on a remote mssql server 7.0 database.we use ms
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radius server and want to try linux.and if it's possible which radius
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server would you recommend for this job?
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Thank you
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<FONT COLOR="navy">HTML/CSS question - useful for dicussion</FONT></H3>
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27 Nov 2001 23:31:32 +0000
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<BR>mike (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=mike@redtux.demon.co.uk&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20help%20wanted%20%232">mike from redtux.demon.co.uk</a>)
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I am currently trying to write html which will insert page breaks for
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printing, which is is CSS2, and just happens to be part of css2 not
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Is any anyone aware of any solutions to this using HTML/CSS1
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<FONT COLOR="navy">neighbour table overflow</FONT></H3>
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:53:35 -0500 (EST)
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<BR>Ian Berry (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=ian@wunh.org&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20help%20wanted%20%233">ian from wunh.org</a>)
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Hi all,
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I just set up a nice little p120 with 2-NICs and RedHat7.0 for my mom and
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it is working great except for one thing which you have spoken of before,
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the "neighbour table overflow" message being printed out to the console.
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In a response to a letter from James Zhuang, Heather spoke of how ifcfg-lo
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might be missing or that lo might not be up but on my system, ifcfg-lo is
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there and appears correct and lo is up and running. Also JimD mentioned
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that pump might be screwing up the loopback configuration and I am running
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that as my dhcp client; how might i remedy this problem? I'd be happy to
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provide more system information if it would help or if you have any other
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ideas on where i might look i would appreciate it.
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Thanks,
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<p><em>Old symptom, maybe a new problem. Anybody out there encountering
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this too? Even better if you've got a Tip sized answer.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Ethernet: Slow download, fast upload</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:47:29 +0100
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<BR>Matthias Posseldt (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=matthi@gmx.li&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20help%20wanted%20%234">matthi from gmx.li</a>)
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Hi all there,
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I recently bought a OVIS Live FSH8R 10/100 MPS autosensing switch and a
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Davicom 9102 network card (dmfe.c) (They deliver Linux drivers on disk!!)
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So I cabled all together and connected to a friends notebook.
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From my <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</A> server he can download with speeds up to 9 MB/s, that's what
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I expected. Now when I download files (big files to measure the
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throughput) from his Apache (on Windows
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/unsmily.gif" ALT=";-("
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height="24" width="20" align="middle"> or via smbmount/Samba,
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I'll just get a rate of 2,5 MB/s. With iptraf (an ip traffic analyser, it's
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very good, IMO) I get a lot of big packets (1400-1500 bytes), which are
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the data packages. But my network interface also receives/sends alot small
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Both network cards run at 100 Mps, changing switch ports did not help.
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The switch has only two cables connected.
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So, nice story
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=";-)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">. The question:
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Why can't I get a fast downlink, but only a fast uplink.
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Thanks, Matthias
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><strong>Diablo under Wine</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#mailbag/3"
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><strong>Tnx Ben & Breen</strong></a>
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><strong>re Nov issue - Dennis Field article</strong></a>
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<li>Two readers address --
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<em>RE:Battle for the Desktop: Why Linux Isn't Winning</em>
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<br><A HREF="#mailbag/8"
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18 Nov 2001 13:42:13 -0600
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<BR>Charles R. Tersteeg (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?cc=aa0na@arrl.net&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20mailbag%20%231">aa0na from arrl.net</a>)
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<P><STRONG>
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I read your article in Published in issue 71 of Linux Gazette October
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2001 where Jefferson said Diablo ran fine under Wine at LWE. Which
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Diablo? I or II. I have II running fine, but I can't find anyone who
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has Diablo I running.
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<P><STRONG>
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thanks,
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I really don't recall whether it was I or II - but it was the honest to
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goodness CD from the Windows software package.
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It was in the <a href="http://www.transgaming.com/">TRANSGAMING.com</a>
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booth; Transgaming makes ActiveX extensions for
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<A HREF="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</A>, and with those extensions,
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many games run fine. -- Heather
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Tnx Ben & Breen</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 1 Nov 2001 19:47:22 -0700
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<BR>William Laing (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20mailbag%20%233">wmlaing from home.com</a>)
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Ben & Breen
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<br>Thank you people who offered me help on loading modules, into the 6.2 system
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I havent got it right yet, but learnt something for sure.
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I dumped the system and will start from scratch again with a different card.
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<br>Thanks agn bill
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<FONT COLOR="navy">re Nov issue - Dennis Field article</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:21:37 -0500
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<BR>Harold A. J. Isaacs (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20mailbag%20%234">chorales from ioip.com</a>)
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<P><STRONG>
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Would you kindly pass on to Mr Field that "Lunux Canada" seems to have
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exactly what he is looking for. It is not free, but moderately (compared
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with MS) priced. Certainly it is worth checking them out.
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I found them at www.linuxcanada.com
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<P><STRONG>
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They didn't have anything that interested me but they seem to have exactly
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what Mr Field needs.
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<P><STRONG>
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Thanks for your wonderful magazine.
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LG has received announcements from Linux Canada before about their POS
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products. I sent the URL to Dennis, but I also noted that I couldn't
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get into the site when I retested it. However, I can get into the site
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now. I think Dennis is looking for more of a software solution, whereas
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Linux Canada is more geared toward special hardware. But maybe Dennis
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will find what he needs. -- Mike
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Thank you for your rapid reply.
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So far as I know Linux Canada only sells software. There has (in the last 2
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years) never been a suggestion of hardware sales or availability - only
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accounting and point of sale SOFTWARE.
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The only time I have had trouble getting into their website was when the
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backbone was clogged, you could not even get anywhere in Canada then. You
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may have had a similar problem.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">RE:Battle for the Desktop: Why Linux Isn't Winning</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:33:25 +0100
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<BR>Ian Carr-de Avelon (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?cc=ian@emit.pl&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20mailbag%20%238">ian from emit.pl</a>)
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There are a whole series of relatively common problems related in this article,
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like applications software which does not run smoothly on all distributions
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and hardware which is not suported by a distribution, or sometimes by any
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The real point is what can be done about this, and who should do it. The
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author, Dennis Field, seems to put the blame with the Linux distribution
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he chose. He, or his employer, paid them good money and so Linux should do
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what he needs it to do. There is nothing wrong with the logic of this,
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but the prospect of all distributions, or the most comercial distributions,
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or even one Linux distribution running out of the box on all old and
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new PCs is pritty well nill. Also even if that did happen, it would not get
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Mr Field to his goal of using Linux for the whole bookshop in one giant
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leap.
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The problems which would need to be fixed
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even in this one "case study" are spread accrose the developers of:
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Linux kernel, X windows, StarOffice, and the distribution's firewall.
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Each of these have nowhere near the resources or assistance from hardware
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designers which Microsoft has, and yet they produce software which
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(on other criteria than out of the box installation on all PCs) far
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outperforms Microsoft's products. They have a right to pride in their
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work and respect from others, and simply calling for any of
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these teams to work harder till the problems nolonger exist would really
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mean accepting that Linux has lost, because even if the developers gave
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up all their free time, the extra improvement could never have the kind
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I have writen <A HREF="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/15359/84340"
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>elsewhere</a> (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/15359/84340)
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how I would generally advise SMEs to move towards
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Linux, but given the evidence of interest in building fairly complex
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systems at low cost, maybe we need a business by business (Bookshops,
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Chemists, Garages) Linux forum to give system integration with Linux
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the kind of boost which <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A> (LDP) and sourceforge have done in other ways.
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Yours
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<br>Ian
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
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[Dennis also has <A HREF="field.html">another article</A>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Battle for the Desktop: Why Linux Isn't Winning</FONT></H3>
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Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:22:51 -0800
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<BR>Robin Rowe (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?cc=&Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.comsubject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20mailbag%20%239">Robin.Rowe from MovieEditor.com</a>)
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Dennis,
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It is unfortunate that you had trouble installing Linux on your ThinkPad.
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You don't say what distros you tried, and each distro works a bit
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differently. Since installation troubles are really the domain of the distro
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and not the operating system itself it seems unfair that you name the
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problem as Linux but avoided naming the distros that actually caused you the
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trouble.
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</P>
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<P>
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Have you tried <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A> Linux? This is a very popular distro, supported
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entirely by volunteers. You could download the boot/root floppy images from
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debian.org, copy them on to two floppies, then boot and install a minimal
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Debian Linux OS. This is usually quite easy. After configuring your Linux
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network settings and adjusting your sources.list to point to the Debian
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download site you could then use dselect or apt-get to install the rest of
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whatever you want automatically over the Internet.
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</P>
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<P>
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That you would have the troubles you did isn't too surprising. Most Windows
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users would have trouble in the similar circumstances trying to install
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Windows on their own for the first time without ever having used it before.
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A more realistic approach when installing Linux for the first time is to
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enlist the aid of other Linux users. Most Linux users groups host monthly
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installfests for this reason, so that new users get the install help they
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need from experienced hands. Had you done that I expect you would have had
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an operational Linux laptop within minutes. Another approach is to join the
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debian mailing list where anybody usually gets answers to install problems
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within a few minutes.
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</P>
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<P>
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Your analogy comparing Linux to a Ferrari with no wheels is unjust. The
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wheels are right there, you just had a problem with your "Some Assembly
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Required" situation. You were not picking up your new Ferrari at the dealer,
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were you? If you were buying a new Thinkpad purchased from IBM with Linux
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already pre-installed (look under "personal systems" at www.ibm.com/linux)
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you should have no installation problems whatsoever.
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</P>
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<P>
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Please let me know if I can be of any help to you installing Debian Linux on
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your laptop.
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</P>
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Cheers,
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<br>Robin
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<li><A HREF="#gaz/1"
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><strong>Re: new LG article: The Art Of Atari ST Emulation</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#gaz/2"
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><strong>Issue 13</strong></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">The distinction between Tips and Articles</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:15:23 -0800
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<BR>Mike Orr (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%231"><em>LG</em> editor</a>)
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<br>Part of a discussion with Matthias Arndt about his article this month
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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Articles go to <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"
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>gazette@ssc.com</A> in HTML format. Tips, tech-support questions
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and tech-support answers go to <A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com"
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>linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A> in text format.
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<P>
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Basically, a tip covers just one simple topic in a screenful or two (or less).
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An article covers several subtopics under separate headings and/or is more than
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a couple screenfulls.
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<p><em>... and Tips rarely involve more than one Answer Gang member's comments.
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I do like to use this rule of thumb: would the answer (possibly without
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explanation) fit in a .sig block? If not, it's probably not small enough to
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make a good Tip.
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</em></p>
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<p><em>
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When the discussions get going even a short thread might go into TAG, and
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some of the better long answers in TAG still aren't as long as a standard
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article. I'd also like to remind people that for article submissions, we
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prefer simple HTML to the font-laden stuff automatically generated by most
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web browsers when "mail as HTML" is turned on.
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-- Heather</em></p>
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Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:26:28 +0100
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<BR>Russell Coker (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2073%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%233">russell from coker.com.au</a>)
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The following section isn't displayed correctly because you don't use &lt;
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and &gt; for the <stdio> part.
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<pre>
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#include
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main()
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{
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printf("test\n");
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fflush(stdout);
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}
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They will not echo what I print.
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</pre>
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<p><em>Thanks Russell. We don't generally go through the back issues
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to correct things like this; things have gotten a lot better
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since then, and I'm proud to say that things have to be sneakier
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that that to put bugs into our HTML code these days
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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-- Heather</em></p>
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