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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and...
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(<a href="tag/bios.html">meet the Gang</a>) ...
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the Editors of Linux Gazette...
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and You!
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<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
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The Answer Gang
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for possible publication
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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><strong>Serial Console "buddy system"</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><strong>Watchdog daemon</strong></a>
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Future in Linux</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>Dual boot systems made easy</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>gigabit unhappy</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>Adding seldom-used directories to your PATH</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>Experience Installing SuSE Linux 8.0</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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<p>Hi Mom!</p>
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<p>(I couldn't resist)</p>
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Hello everyone and once again welcome to the world of The Answer Gang.
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We had around 500 messages come through, the peeve of the month seems
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to be a few people overdosing on their sense of humor, and in case anyone
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was curious... my printer works fine these days.
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I'm sure some people are going through Spring Cleaning. In my case I'm
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cleaning up my hard drive. I got a much, much bigger one and used my
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new distro installation as an excuse to perform the reorganization at the
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same time. This effectively turned an afternoon's task into a couple of
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days of juggling bits and an occasional adventure throughout the month to
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correct one or another facet of the installation.
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At this point all my virtual hosts work, and I've finally gotten over how much
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easier elm is than mutt because I'm successfully using hooks to make the silly
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thing much brighter about what folders to save things to. For my style of
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folder reading this is perfect! Now all I have to do is whap those "elm2mutt"
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people for writing a converter that doesn't work if elm is already gone and
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you only have the aliases left. Sigh.
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In fact I'm planning to leap feet first into the new development cycle over
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at <a href="http://www.lnx-bbc.org/">LNX-BBC.org</a>. Nick has this cool
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new build system and when we're done the thing really will be able to make
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world on itself, I think.
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<p>I'm pleased to see that kernels are settling down to some pretty usable
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stuff. Soon I'll be able to trust it on ultrasparc and maybe update our
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production server. Meanwhile, a nice solid 2.2.x kernel for us, yes indeed.
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<p>That's one of the things I like best about Linux, actually. Nobody holds
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a gun to your head and says that you have to use the latest and bleed all
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over that bleeding edge. If your sound or your pcmcia card just doesn't work
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right under the new stuff - great, stick with what works. Userland is a
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seperate thing, you can upgrade it by some fairly small parts most of the time.
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Of course glibc is a tangled mess, but then, it pretty much always was...
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<p>Later this month (Memorial Day weekend, for those of you who follow US
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holidays) I'll be running the Internet Lounge at
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<a href="http://www.baycon.org">Baycon</a>, a science fiction convention.
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It'll be a nice tribute to how well older systems hold up with Linux under
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the hood. If you happen to be in Northern California around then, feel
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welcome to drop on by.
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<p>See y'all next month, folks!</p>
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<H5 align="center">This page edited and maintained by the Editors
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of <I>Linux Gazette</I>
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>Copyright ©</a> 2002
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<BR>Published in issue 78 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> May 2002</H5>
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<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML script maintained by
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<A HREF="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather Stern</a> of
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