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Re: [Alug] Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

Steve: > I have just tried reading a couple of documents to brush up on this and > found to my surprise that the "Open Source Software Definition" > [http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html] reads as a slighly > edited version of the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" > [http://www.uk.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines] Yes, Bruce Perens, of Debian fame, helped to set up the Open Source Initiative. The DFSG are descended from the FSF definition of free software. If you take the OSI definition, "Open Source" *should* be exactly the same as "Free Software". Terms don't always get used exactly as we define them, though. While "Free Software" speaks of software and freedom from restriction, "Open Source" is purely being able to see the source code. I think Free Software is more easily explained to the layman and harder to "hijack". > I'd always regarded open source as a wider field with Free Software being > the purer core, but where is the line to be drawn. Yes, that's pretty much how it breaks down these days. "Open source" covers all sorts of proprietary software from people like Sun. Even MS supports have claimed that its offering to let certain people see certain bits of the source to Windows makes it "open source"! > 1. Some of the benefits of free software (e.g. customisiing it) > only accrue to those who have the skill to work on it, or have > the resources to hire someone who does have the necessary skill. There's another part to this benefit: the freedom to study it and gain that skill required to modify it. Like a recipe book, free software allows you to try things out and modify the recipes. I suspect a lot of us have gained from this freedom in the past. > 2. Other benefits (cheap copies and free redistribution) are more > valuable to the honest. What can we offer someone who says > "That's all very well but I can get a copy of Win2KPro from my mate". > The answer, of course, is a clear concience. For companies, it's rather easier. No-one company can afford to act illegally. No-one wants a visit from the "Business Software Alliance" with a hefty fine for copyright licence breaches. There are two alternatives: you spend a lot of money on licence purchase and licence enforcement (the hidden cost of proprietary software); or you embrace Free Software. Yes, there are some conversion costs today, but then it's cheaper forever. Really, it's a no-brainer. Another benefit you haven't mentioned is the inability of anyone else to take your data away from you. How many times have proprietary software changed formats incompatibly, leaving you with no conversion tool and no way to get the old version of the program? Even worse, have you ever had a company go bust and then your computer dies? Even if you had backups, if you need an "activation key" when you install it on the new machine, you're stuck again. > Of course, the clincher is if people can see that there are high quality > applications to do the kind of things they want to do with their PCs, so > the list of applications to demo is definitely a way to go. Yes, this is how to win the home users and the individuals who have the freedom to choose what they use. They are the people who we need to target with an event, I think. We should still have literature for the other viewpoints (eg business, public bodies) available, but let's pick an audience and target it. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Paul: > A few suggestions for "Useful Apps" > Spreadsheet - Kspread Gnumeric, siag. > Wordprocessor - Kword (when it doesn't crash), LyX. AbiWord, pw and I guess OpenOffice. > Graphics packages - Gimp, ImageMagic, gphoto. Sketch, Impress (possibly) > Games - Just to pander to the M$ wimps. bzflag network game anyone? :) Communications are a very strong point not to be forgotten: GNUmail, LuserNET, Mozilla, etc. Probably the small armada of server tools should be demo'd, even if we focus on desktop affairs. Anyway, we should all add reviews to the web site, shouldn't we? I've been very bad about that, too. A quick appeal, though -- please put your name on pages, especially if you're going to talk about things like "the author has never...". ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Adam: > It may be even better to call it "Linux day" to just raise profile and > awareness of GNU/Linux (although we should also perhaps be thinking of > other Free and alternative OS), just I don't like the idea of doing > installs on other peoples machines who don't know *anything* about linux OK, here's what else has been going on that I know about so far: 1. AFFS have been talking about a "GNU-Day" anyway, so I've approached them about merging the two. 2. Several people have suggested leaving it until the summer to give more time for proper promotion and being able to ride on the back of the Brum Expo. 3. I've been saying "let's promote Free Software rather than Open Source" ;) > Anyway in short lets do it, UEA would be great although should we perhaps > as a group maybe have 2 seperate meetings on that day? One in Norfolk and > one in Suffolk? I presume CamLug will be doing this also as they have had > an install day before in the basement of CB2... This is probably a good idea. Would a venue in south-/mid-Suffolk be possible? My geography has suddenly gone AWOL, so I don't know if we're using one there at present. -- MJR

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Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Does ALUG want to go for this? Can we do a new venue this year, or should we try UEA again? Where does May fall in the academic year? (Pretty good, IIRC) ------- Forwarded Message Message-ID: <3C7FB085.1070404(a)soton.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 16:47:01 +0000 From: John S Robinson <J.S.Robinson(a)soton.ac.uk> Subject: [lugmaster] UK Linux Install Day 2002 After the success of last year's UK Linux Install Day, Dorset Linux User Group (http://dorset.lug.org.uk) have decided to hold another regional event in 2002. As there seems to be no similar national effort so far this year, we would like to invite other LUGs to coordinate their Install Days with ours, to form a UK Linux Install Day 2002 on Sunday May 19th. National coordination will allow us to raise the the profile of Install Day events and to promote Linux and Open Source software to Businesses and the public. We aim to achieve national press coverage and sponsorship (approaches have been made to O'Reilly and Mandrake). To register your Install Day event, please mail me details (Venue, time, URL for details etc.) to marketing(a)linuxinstallday.org. Details of events will be shown on the website: http://www.linuxinstallday.org This is our chance to build on last year's success and show the public one of Free Software's most valuable facets - it's great sense of community. I'll also be contacting LUG lists directly, in case (as has happened in the past) LUGMasters aren't actually subscribed to this list! If you have any thoughts or questions, please don't hesitate to mail me at the address above, or the one in my sig below. Regards, John Robinson. - -- - ------------------------------ John S. Robinson, BSc (Hons) School of Biological Sciences University of Southampton, UK +44 (0)2380 594399 J.S.Robinson(a)soton.ac.uk - ------------------------------ ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #13 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

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A request for the Association For Free Software
by MJ Ray 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hi all, I'm involved with setting up the UK's Association For Free Software and we're having some difficulties locating the following items: * A tame lawyer who at least knows what GNU/Linux is and would be willing to do occasional work for reduced rate (or free!) in exchange for an honorary title. * A Free Software accountancy package suitable for use in the UK. * A moon on a stick. As you can see, we need at least two of these, so any assistance you can give us would be appreciated a great deal. If you don't know, please ask your LUGs. You can find some more about us at http://www.affs.org.uk/ but it is early days yet. You will doubtless hear when we are set up enough to start a recruitment drive... ;-) Thanks, -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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handbook for newbies
by Ricardo Campos 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

There's an interesting handbook on Linux that newbies may be interested in: http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.html I had a cursory look (the server appears to be having problems tonight), and it seemed fairly informative. I understand that it came bundled with MDK8.1. It may be of interest to newbies and more experienced users alike. Anyhoo, I hadn't heard of it before and there may be a few lurking newbies out there.... ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Another sendmail question....
by MJ Ray 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Simon: > I was thinking of a .forward file but this sends > the message and removes it from the server.. Not if it's like: newuser(a)new.domain, \username where the one after the \ is their username on that host. It disables alias lookup on that local part. > Also, anyone know of an auto-responder for sendmail.. vacation? -- MJR

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Another sendmail question....
by Simon 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Hi again.... I've got a user who wants a copy of all their received mail sending onto another account.. I was thinking of a .forward file but this sends the message and removes it from the server.. It's got to be a copy, so he can pick his mail from 2 different accounts..... Also, anyone know of an auto-responder for sendmail.. Simon

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Re: [Alug] Sendmail Questions....
by MJ Ray 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Simon: > Is it possible to set the maximum recipients for an e-mail ? If so, any > pointers please... Just I've got users sending a half meg file to 200 or so > mail addresses!! Possible yes, but easy? No, not when I last tried. If your lucky, someone will have a quick HOWTO on that one, but I'm not sure that many people still use sendmail if they have a choice. Maybe I'm wrong. > Limiting mailbox size.. I believe it's done using quotas? Can anyone point > me to a good resource to figure this one out.... Is there any other way > other than with quotas..... If there is some support for it in the MTA, then you could do it that way, but that would probably be less certain than using quotas. To get started with quotas, try http://webdocs.essex.ac.uk/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html > I've been told that qmail does all of the above without any problems.. Any > views on this ? Sounds like the normal rubbish qmail apologists say without thinking. Any MTA will do quotas and you could force a limited number of recipients with any MTA. It just depends how many hoops one has to jump through. If you do use qmail, remember that it is restricted (non-free for Debian) and realise what you're getting into. -- MJR

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Sendmail Questions....
by Simon 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Hi Guys, A few questions for Sendmail..... Is it possible to set the maximum recipients for an e-mail ? If so, any pointers please... Just I've got users sending a half meg file to 200 or so mail addresses!! Limiting mailbox size.. I believe it's done using quotas? Can anyone point me to a good resource to figure this one out.... Is there any other way other than with quotas..... I've been told that qmail does all of the above without any problems.. Any views on this ? Simon

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 25 Feb '02

25 Feb '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb
by MJ Ray 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

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Re: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb
by MJ Ray 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

John wrote: > The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court > at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. nb this is the other "front corner" to the last UEA meeting. Thanks to John for sending the announcement. I'm travelling in from King's Lynn, so if someone needs a lift, please email me offlist. -- MJR

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Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb
by John Billings 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Hi all, The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. Directions to the uea are available from www.uea.ac.uk, and there are mapboards on the campus near the main car park that should get you to the common room easily enough. Post meeting drinks will happen in the Union bar, 5pm - 6pm, altho this is not a hard limit, and may well go on longer.. Rumour is that some beer in the Union is current £1 a pint... not that that should effect whether you turn up or not... ;-) Label your kit, if you're bringing it along, and post here to let us know what to look forward too... I will almost certainally be there, hangover from saturday permitting, and will be bringing my Pico Laptop, running debian unstable, and possibly my other Linux machine, if i've failed to get adsl going on it by then. It'll be my first meeting, and hey, this is my first meeting announcment... firsts all around.. Hope to see you there... J. PS.. please post this to other relevent places, if you can think of any.

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #12 - 2 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** oMMMoMo Mo MMMMMMMoMo " "o"o"o"o oMMMoMoM oMMMMMM"MMM" " " " " " "o"o "oMMMoMMM " oMo"M"oo MM" " MoMoMMMMMMM oM " " "oMMM " " MoMMMMMoMoMoooo Mo MMM MoMoMMMMMoMMMMM o" MoM " MoMM "MMo"oMoMMMoM"" MM " MMMMo MMMMMoMMMMMM" oM " MoMMM MMMoMMMo"MM Mo" "MMoMo ooMMMMMMMoMo" oMo oMoMMM " "oMoMMMoMoMo MoM oMoMMM MMMMMMMMMoMMM "oM oMoMMM "M"M"MMoMMMo" " o "oo " MMMM" MMMMMoMoM o" " "oM " " " "o MMMoMMMo"o M " oM " " MMMMMMMoMo o" "oMoMoooMo" " o " " MMoMMMoMoMo " "o"o MM"""""""oM oM " "MMo oMMMMMoMMMoMo " """ """ " o"MMMMoMMMoMMMo"MMo"o" o o o oo MMMMMMoMMMoMMMoMoMo MMMMM MMMo oMMM MMMo MMoMMM oMoMMMoMMMoMMMoMMMo"o oMMMMM MMMo oMMM "MMo MMM "MM MMMMMMMoMMMMMMMoMMMM" " " MMo"MMo MMMo oMM" MMMo oMM" """ " MoMMMoMMMoMMMo" " " MMMoMMMo MMMo oMM" MMMo oMM"oMoMo " "MMoMMMoMMM " " MMMMMMMo MMMo oMM" MMMo oMM" "MM oMMMoMoMoMMMoMMMoMo" " oMM" "oMM" "MMMMM" "MMMMM" MMMoMM" ooMMMMMMMoMMMMMMMoMMMoMo "M" " " " " " """ """ "oM """oMM" " " "MMoMMMoMMMoMM" " " " " " " " alug-announce : The Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group Today's Topics: 1. Reduced hosted server prices for LUGs (MJ Ray) 2. ALUG 2002.2 (markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:30:52 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] Reduced hosted server prices for LUGs ------- Forwarded Message Reply-To: "Rob Davy, Hub Web Services" <rob.davy(a)hubwebservices.com> Subject: Offer Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:05:52 -0000 Dear LUG Owner, We would like to offer a few offers to all your LUG members. These are not any buy 10 get one free, or order now and get a free pin-badge, just permanent price reductions on web services. Quite a few Linux users have found the Hosted Servers quite a useful product. All the offers are at http://www.hubwebservices.com/lug If you would be so kind as to forward this to your mailing lists, it would be much appreciated, if you feel it appropriate of course. Thanks in advance Rob Davy rob.davy(a)hubwebservices.com 07751 528982 ================ Hub Web Services http://www.hubwebservices.com sales(a)hubwebservices.com 0870 751 2205 ------- End of Forwarded Message -- MJR --__--__-- Message: 2 From: markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:44:15 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] ALUG 2002.2 ------- Forwarded Message From: John Billings <john(a)paston.co.uk> Reply-To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:04:29 +0000 Hi all, The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. Directions to the uea are available from www.uea.ac.uk, and there are mapboards on the campus near the main car park that should get you to the common room easily enough. Post meeting drinks will happen in the Union bar, 5pm - 6pm, altho this is not a hard limit, and may well go on longer.. Rumour is that some beer in the Union is current £1 a pint... not that that should effect whether you turn up or not... ;-) Label your kit, if you're bringing it along, and post here to let us know what to look forward too... I will almost certainally be there, hangover from saturday permitting, and will be bringing my Pico Laptop, running debian unstable, and possibly my other Linux machine, if i've failed to get adsl going on it by then. It'll be my first meeting, and hey, this is my first meeting announcment... firsts all around.. Hope to see you there... J. PS.. please post this to other relevent places, if you can think of any. ------- End of Forwarded Message --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Re: [Alug] ADV: Job vacancy in North West London
by MJ Ray 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Martyn: > I wouldn't normally post something like this, but this might be of > interest to some of you. Generally, send this sort of thing to announce@... where people can get at most one daily burst of edited spam, instead of everyone spamming main@. Time to go update the FAQ... -- MJR

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ADV: Job vacancy in North West London
by Martyn Drake 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Hi folks, I wouldn't normally post something like this, but this might be of interest to some of you. There is a systems administrator's position at a North West London ISP (who also provide specialist and hard-to-find PC and Mac components as well as fully built PCs - see http://www.webcoin.co.uk, http://www.pc500.net and http://www.spot5.com for details). Roles will include the installation, maintenance and monitoring of Linux servers (based around a mixture of Red Hat 7.2, Slackware 8.0, and Debian) as well as Sun Solaris 8 on Ultra-SPARC IIe's, some FreeBSD boxes (mainly workstations, though) and a wireless private network powered by Debian proxy servers/gateways. Other duties include supporting the development team with whatever requests they have for installing applications on the servers (such as Postgres and MySQL installations, Apache configuration, Exim and Sendmail configuration, etc). You will also be supporting clients by email and telephone and resolving any problems they may have with their web site or email. There will also be the occasion to visit Redbus for maintenance of the server hardware, or to install new kit. If you're interested, please email me directly off the list for more information. Regards, Martyn -- ----------------| http://www.drake.org.uk |-------------- Linux 2.4.17 #1 Fri Feb 15 13:32:44 GMT 2002 i686 unknown ---------------| http://martyn.drake.me.uk |-------------

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Kernel crashes?
by Ricardo Campos 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Hmmm.... continuing problems since my last recompile (of 2.4.17). (i.e. these didn't used to happen...) 1) If I need to do anything that is intensive disk-wise (writing large files to disk), I am unable to do anything else, otherwise the system locks up. A symptom of this, for example, is that xmms loops about a second of the MP3 I'm playing. X does not respond to ctrl-alt-backspace, the system doesn't respond to ctrl+alt+del. 2) Although I have not changed my etc/fstab file, on booting, the system refuses to mount a vfat partition ("wrong fs type, bad superblock or wrong option"). If I mount it manually as root, I can access the partition (but only as root). I DID compile in vfat, DOS and UMSDOS support. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to view anything but the X server logs in /var/logs , as it says that the file is not viewable. How could I view these log files? Which one should I look at? Any parameters I can pass on at boot to enable more verbose logging? I'm VERY close to reinstalling / and chmod'ing my /home partition! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Long-range wireless LAN
by Dryden 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

>A friend of mine, much knowledgeable, tells me that >with directional antennae a line-of sight range of >10-15 miles should be attainable for wireless LAN. >But it's equally a question of finding hospitality >at the far end. Well this sounds like a very good idea i dont live anywhere nere ely but I agree that Norfolk would be a very nice place to try wirless networks. Well what options are there? ive been told about wirless but dont fully understand what hardware is needed. Maybe some1 could give a talk about it at the next meeting? I live 15 miles from kings lynn and 10 miles from swafam. No chance of geting any connection better then isdn atm :( so a wirless lan would be nice ;) I know this thred is abit old but i was away on work exp. so i missed it. Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Long-range wireless LAN
by Ricardo Campos 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

> Well what options are there? ive been told about >wirless but dont fully understand what hardware is >needed. Maybe some1 could give a talk about it at >the next meeting? Hi there, best that you register your interest- someone else might be thinking the same as you, and someone else, and so on... (There are now 3 nodes- all from this list, in the Norwich area...but...not...quite...close...enough!) http://www.consume.net/nodes Is the place to add your interest. For general info: http://www.consume.net/consume.html But also check http://www.freenetworks.org/ http://www.seattlewireless.net/ and also, one of my favourite links, http://www.redbricks.org.uk It's a bit off topic, but it's a nice example of community connection sharing. Consume has some mailing lists, I'm sub'd to one, but I'm a little lost in all the antennae and electronics and stuff. (Not my thing really). Hope this helps... I'm no expert myself. It appears to involve pringles cans and oscilloscopes. Kinda cyberpunk and cool though! ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: Re: [Alug] NVIDIA/ X
by Dryden 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

>Things are looking bleaker with the recent loss of >Loki, who were the only >truly original masters of Linux gaming, IMHO. They >churned out some >seriously good products. >Regards, > Martyn What about id software they make there games linux native and open source(GPL i think :-). but Ive found that quake 1 at least is a bit of an ass to install for x11 with no opengl support... oh well. Any one know of a nice single package for quake or doom? I dont mind a little compiling but i dont want to edit makefiles ;-) Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Boot problems
by Paul 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Hi Folks Installed RH7.2 on a clean 3.2Gig drive this morning and promptly went about compiling a new kernel for a 586 CPU - Plugged the drive in to a P166 box when I got home, and now the thing hangs at the "Freeing memory" stage. Attempting to boot the old kernel just results in an instant reset, so I can't use that option.... Short of wiping the disk and doing a fresh install, does anyone have some suggestions ? A boot floppy is out as there is no floppy on this machine and the RH CD doesn't appear to have a rescue system on it. Regards, Paul.

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JDK 1.2
by David Fairey 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Hi there, I've just installed some processing software under debian which requires a "JDK 1.2" to run. It seems to just need a java executable to run no graphics or anything. So, can anyone suggest a debian package for woody that would provide me with an equivalent to the JDK 1.2? I have seen the various jdk1.1 and kcaffe packages on the woody CDs and on www.debian.org, but I can't seen anything that would provide anything suitable. Hope someone can help. Cheers. David.

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #11 - 1 msg
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19 Feb '02

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