Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #891
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 94 23:13:12 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #891, Volume #2                 Thu, 6 Oct 94 23:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  X vs non-X users? (Charles Blair)
  what does a hosts.allow look like? (Rob Newberry)
  Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Alan Cox)
  Processing power vs. Ram/Video.. (Derrik Walker II)
  Re: Editors/WordProcessors for Linux (Josef Dalcolmo)
  Re: 3D graphics software. ([email-masked])
  Latest Linux CD distribution ?? (Trond Kjernasen)
  Re: which is better: Mitsumi or Panasonic CDROM? (Heiko Schlittermann)
  Re: Hmmm (Alberto Vignani)
  Re: New version of ManIX (IMHO better) (Alan Osborne)
  Re: Play Audio CD's on Linux? (dave delaune)
  Re: New Linux Distribution (Russell Nelson)
  Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Adam J. Richter)
  Printing Under Linux (root)
  Re: Lynx under Linux (Top Dog)
  Probl. w. Workman1.0 and Mitsumi CD-ROM (Christian Urban)
  Re: find on my cd-rom doesn't work, but find on dos does (Gerry Snyder)
  Help me, too!! (Re: Help with NFS!) (Yan Xiao)
  Re: GSI controller-good? (The Almighty One)
  Enhanced IDE Support (The Almighty One)
  Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Jeff Kesselman)
  Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Nate Williams)
  Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Colin Beckmann)
  XF86-3.1 (more of it) was: XF86-3.1(most of it) available here... (Bill C. Riemers)
  Re: Linux doesn't like my cache (Sean A. Long)

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Blair)
Subject: X vs non-X users?
Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:37:04 GMT

   The main reason I still have a DOS partition on my machine is that
I don't use X, and, as far as I know, there is no non-X previewer for
TeX that is equal in quality or ease of use to the emtex previewer
for DOS.

   This leads to a more general question.  I wonder whether we are
approaching the point where software for the two kinds of linux/unix
users will split the group.  I can't suggest any particular fix.
As a matter of curiosity, I wonder what the X/non-X ratio is.

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Newberry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: what does a hosts.allow look like?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 16:41:08

I'm constantly getting "malformed entry" errors with my hosts.allow file.  Can 
someone post one here, or mail me a copy of theirs or a faked one to let me 
know what it needs to look like?

Thanks!

Rob
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Rob Newberry               Education and Technology Solutions, Inc.
Email: [email-masked]        4303 Parkland Court
Phone: 301 438 3915        Rockville, Maryland 20853
FAX: 301 438 3748

      The secret to happiness is knowing how many
          weekdays you can afford a hangover.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 12:36:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Steve Kneizys) writes:
>I have started a couple such threads...nobody posted a solution.  It 
>does not bother me that there is a problem, especially with development
>versions, but that so many people have posted and never an acknowledgement.  
>I would feel better about things, especially in the era of a code freeze
>where release 1.2.0 is imminent, that somebody is working to try and patch 
>this before that version is out :)  What post was it that you saw this
>possible fix with the newest networking code?  

1.1.52 has a small fix that sorts out MTU discovery when Linux is being
used as a router (normally this simply means problems with Solaris 2.3
hosts). There are a couple of small problems with  connections hanging
from the latest Cisco firmware and also from PC/TCP if your tcp window
parameter is set < your tcp mss parameter on PC/TCP. That as far as I can
tell is all thats seriously wrong with the current TCP code. Both the
CISCO and PC/TCP problem are the same and I'm currently working on sorting
those out.

There are other problems I get regular reports of like whole machines
suddenely locking absolutely solid with not even the keyboard or anything
else responding. This is always machines with an NE2000 clone and those
people with the hardware gadgets to check always find the card has jammed
the bus.

Alan
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From: Derrik Walker II <[email-masked]>
Subject: Processing power vs. Ram/Video..
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 05:09:59 GMT

Only being a college student with limited funds, I am wandering...

Would it be better to get a 486dx-33 or 486sx-33 with 16megs of ram and a 
good video card, or should I get a 486dx2-66 with 8 megs and a crapola 
video card to run Linux on?

While I'm mentioning, is there any real advantage to getting a system 
from Dell, or Gateway or some there "Name Brand" as aposed to a system 
that will cost a LOT LESS from a no name copany like Cybermax, or 
Profesional Somthing or another?

And advice will help, Thanx.

-Derrik
===============================================================================
 Derrik Walker II                                 Student of Computer Sciences
 Cleveland State University                  Automation Assistant, Law Library
 [email-masked]                            [email-masked]
===============================================================================
        http://pclab19.law.csuohio.edu:8099/html/dwalker/home.html

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From: [email-masked] (Josef Dalcolmo)
Subject: Re: Editors/WordProcessors for Linux
Date: 5 Oct 1994 18:16:14 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, MacGyver <[email-masked]> wrote:
>DAVID L. JOHNSON ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Cornelius Krasel) writes:
>: >S. Troughton ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: >: I am new to using Linux and I was wondering what editors/wordprocessors
>: >: exists. The ones I know about (came with the Slackware distribution) are
>: >: Emacs (several variants), TeX (lots of different macros), Jove, ed and elvis.
>: >: I have also invested in Crsip (not working yet).
>: >
>
>TeX...I've got a few questions about that.  Is there a good TeX editor?  If
>so, WHERE?  Are there TeX converters from say ASCII to TeX or vice versa?

You are the ASCII to TeX converter. Tex is just ASCII with formatting
statements embedded in the text. If you have an ASCII file all you need to
do is add a header and footer like:

\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}

Your ASCII text goes here

\end{documet}

And that's the Latex file - well, almost. You still may need to add a few
backslashes: in front of every _ % $ or so (replace _ with \_ etc.) Then, if
you want to pretty up the text, you must add that information by hand.

>If so WHERE?  I'd like to find a good TeX editor (preferrably X based) and
>get it running, however, I seem to be running into brick walls whenever I
>try to find any information about it.
>
>HJD.

Well, I am using jed (look at amy.harvard.edu).  That's a small programmable
emacs lookalike. (If you have plenty of memory you may as well use emacs)

You get Latex as part of the Slackware distribution or otherwise look on
Sunsite.unc.edu

- Josef

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: 3D graphics software.
Date: 6 Oct 94 17:55:35 JST

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Chiu David Kwai-On) writes:
> Is there any 3D graphics software works under linux? I'll very much
> appreciate if someone can tell me the ftp site.
> 
>

I've been using Geomview as a 3D front end for Mosaic.  It is interesting
to look at and source code is available. 

  http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/weboogl/setup.html

One of the guys there, Ed Chi, is a into Linux and has been really 
helpful.  Weboogl is a proposed base for VRML (Virtual Reality 
Markup Language).  

I have only a 486DX 33mhz machine with 20 megs of ram and Geomview
really slows down when I  start to display things like offices 
and virtual worlds where there are many geometric shapes. 

If you do not have Motif, you will need Geomview linked with 
static binaries.  This file is 5 megs.  

A mean hack of a perl script connects Mosaic and Geomview.  To get the
script to run on Linux, you either need to run Perl 5.0 or change
one line of the script which sends a 'USR1' signal to Mosaic.

I think it was line 957 (or something like that).  The error message
will show where the problem is.  I didn't figure this out myself.  The
cool people at the Geometry center helped me.  
 
-- 

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From: [email-masked] (Trond Kjernasen)
Subject: Latest Linux CD distribution ??
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:12:29 GMT

I am considering buying the Linux distribution on CD-ROM and I would like to know what is the best and latest distribution, and where to get it.
Thanx

--
Trond

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From: [email-masked] (Heiko Schlittermann)
Subject: Re: which is better: Mitsumi or Panasonic CDROM?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 09:25:55 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Teemu Kilpivuori <[email-masked]> wrote:
>: What evidence do you have for that ?
>Yeah,what. As I understand, Panasonic doesn't use IRQ nor DMA, only software
>polling, which makes it slower,and it causes more CPU-load than Mitsumi with
>IRQ and DMA enabled. I have tested both drives, and seen that myself, which 
>is why I bought a Mitsumi.

As far as I know the Mitsumi driver doesn't use either irq nor dma.

-- heiko

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From: Alberto Vignani <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Hmmm
Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:03:16 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Ah, nostalgia...

In the November 1992 issue of BYTE, page 24, there was a letter from
'David Giller - Los Angeles,CA' (a typo for 'David Miller'?) under the
title "Unix for Nothing", about Linux. It was the first time I heard
about It.
I think it was around 0.95 at that time - unfortunately I couldn't join
before 0.99.4, for lack of Internet access, but I was already alerted.
I wonder how many people were intrigued by that letter...

Alberto

======================================================================
...Windows,windows everywhere!
   But not here,but not there! ...
======================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Osborne)
Subject: Re: New version of ManIX (IMHO better)
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 08:10:18 +0000

Duncan P Simpson ([email-masked]) wrote:
             [deleted]

Duncan,
I know you probably mean well but please remember that a lot of
us pay for Internet access and don't have much money, apart from
which I for one am not interested in games.  Please use an
archive and make a short announcement next time.

-- 
AlanO

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From: [email-masked] (dave delaune)
Subject: Re: Play Audio CD's on Linux?
Date: 2 Oct 1994 07:15:12 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (William Bushing) writes:
|> OK, call me blind or stupid... flame me to your heart's content.
|> I love Linux, but I haven't yet found out how to play audio CD's
|> while operating under Linux. I grep'ed through all the documenta-
|> tion I could see for anything on audio/CD, but could find nothing.
|> I'd hate to return to DOS or, shudder, Windose just to be able to
|> play music while I work. I know Linux can do it... my world would
|> be complete with multiple windows multitasking PLUS music! Thanks
|> in advance for any pointers.
|> 
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> William W. (Boo) Bushing  |  "Life is too important to be
|> [email-masked]    |       taken seriously"
|> [email-masked]  | 
|> [email-masked]  |            - Einstein
|> Marine Biotechnology Lab   Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

try sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/cdplayers
or
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/sound/multimedia1.1.tar.gz

Good Luck

Dave DeLaune

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From: [email-masked] (Russell Nelson)
Subject: Re: New Linux Distribution
Date: 06 Oct 1994 15:39:01 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John Palaima) writes:

   yeah, I remember the PC-Unix set (something like that) that you
   could get off Clarkson's PC's directly back in 89-90, when I was
   there...  Pretty cool really.  Back then, some of us had access to
   Minix, but the damned Zeniths CU gave us couldn't install it
   because Minix didn't have 3.5" support at the time :)

   (btw, Russ Nelson, what ever happened to grape.ecs???)

It's still there.  It's as well supported by Clarkson as it always
was.  Hey, at least they picked up the bill for the BBS phone #.
After the CUHUG club closed down, the student organization quit paying
for the phone, so the BBS phone # was assigned to someone else.  To
make things worse, they put a FAX machine on it.  They couldn't
understand why they were getting a hundred calls a day on their FAX
machine, and callers couldn't understand why they were getting such
weird modem tones.

BTW, how did you know that I would read this particular message out of
the hundred others in colm?

--
-russ <[email-masked]>    http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html
Crynwr Software   | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key
11 Grant St.      | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX)  | What is thee doing about it?
Potsdam, NY 13676 | LPF member - ask me about the harm software patents do.

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From: [email-masked] (Adam J. Richter)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
Date: 7 Oct 1994 00:18:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jeff Kesselman <[email-masked]> wrote:
>The fdisk used in Slackware sees nothing wrong with the disk. Perhaps it is 
>different from the one used by Yggdrasil. I can't imagine why but I guess its a
>possibility. The Yggdrasil fdisk is obviously less well tested than 
>Slackware's if it is in fact the culprit.

        Our install process uses cfdisk 0.8, and we also have regular
fdisk.  The only changes that we made to cfdisk were additional
user help and making the way it deals with segments above 1024
cylinders compatible with the old fdisk.

        If you prefer plain fdisk, there is nothing stopping you
from partitioning your disk with that as root and then just typing
"done" to the cfdisk part of the Yggdrasil installation script.

-- 
Adam J. Richter                           Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
(408) 261-6630                            "Free Software For The Rest of Us."

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From: [email-masked] (root)
Subject: Printing Under Linux
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 05:31:03 GMT

Hi all,

I know this is probably a simple question, but I could not find an answer in the FAQ.  I have /dev/lp1 set up correctly and it will take catted files, but it acts weird.  For example: it will not return to the beginning of the next line, it returns to the next at the end of the previous line. i.e.

"hi my name is andy
                   how are you doing
                                     I think this is a silly way to print files."

Is this a configuration problem or am I not catting the file correctly?

Help is appreciated.
Andy

([email-masked] or [email-masked])
(http://harbicav.jmu.edu/Andy)

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Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.www.providers,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Top Dog)
Subject: Re: Lynx under Linux
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:49:46 GMT

I have also noticed that Lynx is much slower in retriveing documents
than Mosaic. Can anyone tell me why that is. I don't have much memory
and I run X and Mosaic only when I want to view some graphics. 

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From: [email-masked] (Christian Urban)
Subject: Probl. w. Workman1.0 and Mitsumi CD-ROM
Date: 6 Oct 1994 16:33:04 +0100
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Christian Urban)

Hi,

I have problems with my Mitsumi FX CD-ROM and the volume control
panel of workman. Workman is written especially for the Sony CDU 
drive. You can here Audio-CD with it but not change the volume. 
Is there a patch for the Mitsumi drive or is there a option that 
a don't know?

The workman manual writes about this:

>>For WorkMan to function you will need a kernel-supported CD-ROM driv
>uses the Sun-style ioctls for audio control. Currently, there are
>>three options: I have implemented these functions for SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives;
>>the patches for this can be found in a misc. SCSI patches release by
>>Eric Youngdale: look on tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/. These patches are known
>>to work with a Sony CDU-541 drive.

>>The other two options are the Sony CDU-31A and CDU-535/531 drives wi
>their
>>special interfaces. Drivers for these drives, written by Corey Minyard and
>>[email-masked] (Jeppesen, Ronald), respectively, can be found at
>>sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu.

Please send me an e-mail.
Thanks in advance.

-- 
  Christian Urban   (cu1)                     
  Grabenwinkel 19                             
  01277 Dresden  
  Germany                           
                                             
  [email-masked]                                        

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From: [email-masked] (Gerry Snyder)
Subject: Re: find on my cd-rom doesn't work, but find on dos does
Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:43:02 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, leisner@batman (Marty Leisner 25733) says:
>
>This is interesting...
>
>I have Walnut Creeks simtel20 CD...
>It non-rockridge.
>
>find . on linux just list the files in the current directory and nothing
>more...

Try using find with the -noleaf option.

>marty

Gerry   [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Yan Xiao)
Subject: Help me, too!! (Re: Help with NFS!)
Date: 06 Oct 1994 20:46:49 GMT

Oh, boy, talking about coincident.

This is what we have:
a Sun386i/250 running SunOS4.0.1, and a 486 running
Linux 1.1.45, installed from Yggdrasil 1994 Fall.

This is what we did:
  on Sun's exports: (name video.ab.umd.edu)
        /files  -access=audio.ab.umd.edu
  on Linux we issued:
        mount -t nfs /video:/files /sun

And we got:
        mount clntudp_create: RPC: program not registered

Help!!!!!!!!!

Yan
==========================
   In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Eric Stajda) writes:
   >Hello,
   >    We are trying to mount a file system from our HP9000 to our Linux box....
   >In the FSTAB we have the following command:
   >
   >hp.el.com:\users\smith \tempmount nfs timeo=14,intr
   >
   >In the rc.inet2 we have:
   >mount -a -t nfs
   >
   >We receive the following error on bootup:
   >
   >mount clntudp_create: RPC: program not registered
   >
   >Could anyone help with hints on how to solve this problem? 

   It seems that the HP9000 is not running the rpc.mountd and therfore
   cannot service NFS mount requests. Is the filesystem remote mounted
   on any other machine?

   Also the slashes should be / not \, but I don't know what problems
   that will cause.

   -- 
   Amrik Thethi.                        Tel. +223 421 008 Fax. +223 421 024
   Setanta Software Ltd.                Internet: [email-masked]
   Cambridge, UK.

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From: [email-masked] (The Almighty One)
Subject: Re: GSI controller-good?
Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:47:11 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>, Wayne Adams <[email-masked]> wrote:
>       I'm considering upgrading my ide hard drives (Maxtor 345 and WD 
>Caviar340) and want to upgrade my generic ide controller. GSI boards seem very 
>reasonably priced, but was wondering their compatibility w/Linux and OS/2?
>       My system: 486/66 VLB, 8 meg, Colorado 250 floppy tape, and Texel 
>DM-3024 cd-rom attached (SCSI) to my PAS sound brd.
>                               TIA,
>                               Wayne

        Yeah, I want to know how the Promise Technology, Inc. EIDE2300Plus
Enhanced IDE card compares with GSI and Acculogic...

                              Cheers,
                               Vince
E-mail:
[email-masked],\|/ Sys Adm - CircleStar Technologies,Inc. 
  [email-masked],(o o) San Francisco, California USA
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 |  There are many forms of science but only physics is the quantum  |
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  \_________________________________________________________________/
        [email-masked]        UCLA Physics
                                     Los Angeles, California USA

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From: [email-masked] (The Almighty One)
Subject: Enhanced IDE Support
Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:48:12 -0400

        Does Linux currently support Enhanced IDE Drives like a Western 
Digital 1.08 GIG IDE Drive?  To support this, is a Enhanced IDE 
controller required or will a standard IDE Controller do to get the full 
capacity of the drive under Linux, DOS?  Any help will be greatly 
appreciated.

                              Cheers,
                               Vince
E-mail:
[email-masked],\|/ Sys Adm - CircleStar Technologies,Inc. 
  [email-masked],(o o) San Francisco, California USA
  _________________________oOO__(_)__OOo_____________________________
 |  There are many forms of science but only physics is the quantum  |
 |                    leap of the 21st Century.                      |
  \_________________________________________________________________/
        [email-masked]        UCLA Physics
                                     Los Angeles, California USA

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 05:32:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Paul Bash <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]>, Jan Willems <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>Yggdrasil users,
>>
>>I'm stuck with a few questions:
>>
>>-     Is there a solution to the above described problem?
>>-     Why is it that the fall 1993 CD was allright as far as I knew,
>>      the summer 1994 gave me a lot of problems right away and this one won't 
>>      install simple packages in Xwindows?
>>-     Is this really plug & play? Is it my fault? Am I doing things
>>      wrong? Did they test it?
>>-     Last but not least, are there any other CDROM's that say
>>      they are plug & play. I might get me one.
>>
>>      Regards,
>>      Jan Willems.
>
>Having worked with both of them, the obvious solution to the Yggdrasil 
>problems is to junk the CD and buy the Slackware PRO CD. While the Yggdrasil
>CD-ROM shows a lot of promise, it is far behind the Slackware distribution
>in terms of "Plug and Play".
>
>Yggdrasil is cute if you only want to burn 10MB of hard disk space and don't
>mind a _slow_ system running from CD-ROM. Past that, its a mess. One example: 

(various other vitriol deleted...)

This helpful person, while treating us to his delightful rants, has 
deleted the actual question asked to begin with (which figures) so its 
kind of hard to help.

I'm running Yygdrasil  fall94 quite nicely. I am EXCEEDINGLY happy with 
it, the docs that came with it, and the Linux bible I bought that 
Yygdrasil publishes.

If whomever posted the original question would like to mail it to me, Ill
see if I can help. 

In a democracy everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion....
(I won't finish that thought.  Those of you out there inclined to agree 
with me will be able to finish it for yourselves, and this way I don't 
start a flame war with anyone else. :)  )

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From: [email-masked] (Nate Williams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 2 Oct 1994 22:43:10 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Po-Han Lin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.

You were misinformed.  Both Linux and the BSD's use monolithic kernels. 
For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus
and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux
was in it's infancy.

Nate
-- 
[email-masked]     |  FreeBSD core member and all around tech.
[email-masked]          |  weenie.
work #: (406) 994-4836       | 
home #: (406) 586-0579       |  Available for contract/otherwise work.

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From: [email-masked] (Colin Beckmann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
Date: 6 Oct 1994 15:15:57 GMT

Ralph Sims ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (System Administrator) writes:

: >Trevor Lampre ([email-masked]) wrote:

[stuff deleted]
: >for confirming what we've been seeing!  I suggest we keep this thread 
: >open and fill it with additional information until the problem gets the 
: >attention it needs.  I'm not a programmer, much less a kernel hacker, so 
: >I can only voice frustration with the situation.

: And what about those of us that DON'T see it?  Basic setup is a
: dedicated PPP link on a 14.4 dialup, NET-3 stuff, ppd 2.1.2a,
: etc., with an InfoMagic/TransAmeritech CD-ROM combined install.

: I move many megabytes of files around via FTP daily, and another
: many megs around with mosaic and lynx.  Sendmail+IDA's been
: rock-solid.

[stuff deleted]

If your not seeing be thankful and provide your system configuration
so the experts can see whats working and whats not working

I am NOT seeing th problem,  Have a  14.4 modem using NET-3 pppd 2.2.2a with 
slackware 1.2 , and kernel 1.1.30.  I have downloaded 20 and 30 megs in a
single session via ftp and never had a problem.  I regularly rlogin to
other sites, once again without problem

Colin

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From: [email-masked] (Bill C. Riemers)
Subject: XF86-3.1 (more of it) was: XF86-3.1(most of it) available here...
Date: 03 Oct 1994 20:14:04 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

>>>>> "Christofer" == Christofer D Chiappa <[email-masked]> writes:

    Christofer> Ive put up most of the important pieces of XF86 since
    Christofer> its a bitch to get on TSX-11 right now...  Anonymous
    Christofer> ftp: iloveryn.pc.cc.cmu.edu in /pub It is not the full
    Christofer> distribution...  Im missing XF86-3.1-fntbig.tar.gz and
    Christofer> the only servers I have are XF86-3.1-W32.tar.gz
    Christofer> -SVGA.tar.gz -VGA16.tar.gz As the W32 matches my card
    Christofer> and I figured the other two were the most popular(plus
    Christofer> im pretty tight on disk space ;^) Ill probbaly leave
    Christofer> it up for a few days. Transfer rates should be
    Christofer> extremely good as this machine doesn't run anything
    Christofer> else.

Thanks, you are a life saver.  I was half way through
XF86-3.1-inc.tar.gz before the link completely froze. 
Anyways, I'll put XF86-3.1-Mach32.tar.gz, XF86-3.1-fntbig.tar.gz,
COPYRIGHT, FILES.gz, and SUMS on at:

  physics.purdue.edu:/pub/bcr/XFree86-3.1.

Between these two sites, people should be able to get most of
the XFree86 stuff.  To make things more convient I'll add some
links to my www homepage.

                         Bill

p.s.  I don't have room for the full distribution either, but
if people want to upload some of the missing drivers
to physics.purdue.edu:/pub/bcr/Incoming it should be OK.

--
<A HREF="    http://physics.purdue.edu/~bcr/homepage.html                  ">
<EM><ADDRESS>  Bill C. Riemers,  [email-masked]   </ADDRESS></EM></A>
<A HREF="           http://www.physics.purdue.edu/                         ">
<EM>          Department of Physics,   Purdue University            </EM></A>

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From: [email-masked] (Sean A. Long)
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't like my cache
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 19:53:56 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (David Flood) writes:

>I recently upgraded my mother board and memory from a 386sx16 w/ 4M to a
>386dx40 with 5M.  This new bard has a 128K cache on it that when enabled,
>an attempted recompile of the kernel will bomb out with several errors
>that a restart of the compile will run right by until another error occurs.
>But with the cache disabled, everything runs just fine.

>Also, with the cache, I get a lot faster response and speed with a 
>BogoMip rating of around 7.8-7.9.  Without it it is closer to 4.0.  How
>can I keep the cache and (perhaps more importantly) does anyone know of a
>program to test cache memory incase I have a bad chip?

Try increasing the cache read/write wait states...  I have a similiar setup 
and at 33 Mhz, works nicely but at 40Mhz, get errors compiling and random 
other little faults which eventually hose something important and the 
machine dies a rather entertaining death...

-=>Sean Long

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