Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #172
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Thu, 26 May 94 00:13:13 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #172, Volume #2                Thu, 26 May 94 00:13:13 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Linux and the ALPHA flamers... (Jay Morris)
  Re: Wait'll you see the May 16th PCWEEK... (Bill Hogan)
  Re: LSM - What and How?
  Followup to GIF question, changing ZGV (Doom Guard)
  Re: LAN vs. linux (Bernhard Nessler)
  Re: Solution to serial-terminal problem... (Rob Janssen)
  porting MAGIC to PC running Linux (Wing C. KWONG)
  Re: software communists was Re: BRIEF/vi Compatible GUI Text Editor (Tim Smith)
  Will this work??? (Ryan J Snodgrass)
  Re: software communists was Re: BRIEF/vi C (Michaela Merz)
  Re: Iomega tape drives (Tonny Steen)
  Re: who wants POV for Linux ??? (Patrick Reijnen)
  Re: Viewing GIFs easily under LINUX (Patrick Reijnen)
  Computerworld says "Expose, Schmexpose" (STEVEN L BLAKE)
  CERT Advisory ??? WHAT! It doesn't work??? (C. McNiel)
  System halt when entering Xwindows ("M.C. Wai")
  Re: A good NFS server ? (dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu)
  IHHD for Linux? (Eric W. Mitchell)
  Job opportunities at Yggdrasil (Adam J. Richter)
  DIP-3.3.7a released (:-) (Uri Blumenthal)
  Re: ATI Mach64 PCI (Helmut Geyer)
  Re: A good NFS server ? (Michael L. VanLoon)

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From: Jay.Morris@launchpad.unc.edu (Jay Morris)
Subject: Re: Linux and the ALPHA flamers...
Date: 25 May 1994 18:26:26 GMT

In article <1994May19.113948.10083@uk.ac.swan.pyr>,
Alan Cox <iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr> wrote:
>In article <Cq0Fp0.2AHr@ns1.nodak.edu> evers@plains.NoDak.edu (Dwight M Evers) writes:
>>To make this as CLEAR AS POSSIBLE...ALPHA is RISC...Linux is (CURRENTLY) 
>>CISC... I know of no ports of Linux tothe ALPHA. I do not claim in any 
>
>Alpha is a procesor, a piece of silicon
>Linux is an operating system.
>
>I think you need to do a brain check.


He could have been a little clearer but try applying a little of your brain 
power.  He obviously meant The Alpha chip is a RISC chip and Linux runs
on a CISC chip.  Shoot, and I'm half asleep.  I must be, I'm at work.

>Alan
>


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From: bhogan@crl.com (Bill Hogan)
Subject: Re: Wait'll you see the May 16th PCWEEK...
Date: 24 May 1994 22:49:32 -0700

Chris Bitmead (chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote:
: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:


: >I agree; it sounds like a desktop which will be available on multiple *ixes,
: >and which is being hosted on Linux for x86 because that way they can make it a
: >lot cheaper than if they used UnixWare and beat Microsoft on the price point.

: One thing that puzzles me is why Novell would want Linux anyway.  They own
: the "real" unix code i.e SVR4. Why would they need someone elses copy of
: unix to make it cheaper. Surely they can sell SVR4 for whatever price they
: want?

  Well, if there is already a reasonably large installed Unixware base 
and if Novell provides or offers support for it?

  If I bought a fleet of Unixware licenses at $nnn apiece a year ago (and 
had to fight like hell to do it), I do not think I would be real gleeful 
if I picked up PC Week tomorrow and discovered Novell was now giving it away.

  And where do Linux user/administrators come for help?

              hardware mfg <--> Linux <--> Novell

is an instance of a much more general proposition; consider

           hardware mfg <--> Linux <--> University X

  I have been running Linux less than six months.

  If I had to wait until the commercial software developers re-worked the 
kinds of software that I have downloaded from the net and that I already 
have running on my PC under Linux, so it would work on Windows NT or 
OS/2 (say), I would be in an impossible position!

  Not only would I not know what was going to be available, I would not 
know even know when it was going to be available; I would be forever at 
the mercy of persons unknown, first, to decide *if* they felt like 
porting I need, second, to decide *when* the were going to get around to 
doing it, and third, to decide how much I as going to have to pay for the 
privilege of trying to guess what the source code looked like!
 
 The kinds of people who produce the kinds of software I am interested in 
live on the frontiers of knowledge; in many ways, computing research -- 
especially in the area of computing _languages_, is pulling farther and 
farther ahead of what is available on the commercial PC software market.

 From this point of view, the situation is topsy-turvy.

 Linux turns it rightside-up.

 Now the most recent software developments can move literally straight 
from the laboratory to my kitchen table!

 Economists call this "disintermediation".

 I call it smart.

  Bill  
-- 
  Bill Hogan
{bhogan@crl.com}

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From: reeves@theis ()
Subject: Re: LSM - What and How?
Date: 25 May 1994 18:53:29 GMT

Lutz Behnke HiWi (behnke@tu-harburg.d400.de) wrote:
: Hello World,

: when I was browsing the ftp-pathes the other day,
: I noticed funy things, I did.

: some files, ending 'LSM'.
: Saw no explanation then.
: I wandered what they might be.

LSM is Linux Software Map. lsm files are program/package descriptions in
a standardized form provided as a public information resource. Presumably
it would be very easy to construct a database to read and search entries
in lsm form - maybe such a beast already exists ???


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From: anon0b24@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Doom Guard)
Subject: Followup to GIF question, changing ZGV
Date: 25 May 1994 11:51:22 -0600


I appreciate all the help I have recieved in my quest for GIF utilities.
I FTPed all from sunsite /pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers.. All of them
are great utilities, but all are limited via one problem -- I have a
SVGA Trident Card, 1 meg RAM, but only a VGA monitor. Thus I am limited
to tops 640x480x256.. However, VGATEST and other programs only succesfully
support up to 640x480x16.. Ok. That's a pain, but I can live with it,
and I usually just scroll around with 320x200x256.. ZGV tho, the best
program (in my opinion) of the bunch also automatically chooses 640x480x256
for the Menu screen. Now startmode seems to change the mode I view
the GIF in originally, because I can see GIFs fine. HOwever, the menu
is all garbled, since the mode does not work. Anyone know how I can
tell ZGV to use 320x200x256? If it's a source code hack, that's fine..
I would like to however be able to see the menus! Thanks.


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Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 16:20:58 +0200
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: nessler@georges.montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Bernhard Nessler)
Subject: Re: LAN vs. linux


Could someone tell me a bit more exactly what are the possibilities
to connect a Linux box to an existing Novell 3.11 Network, please.

My Configuration:

    Novell 3.11 10-User Server. Only the basic installation, with TCP/IP
                                but i didn't find a NLM in the server
                                software to start a NFS Server e.g.
    DLD-Distribution with Linux 1.0 Kernel.
        (DLD is the Deutsche Linux Distribution (more or less a german
        version of SLS, i think)

At the moment my Linux box stands compleatly alone.

I would also like to connect the other PC's of the Novell Network
to the Linux box. Actually they run MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1.
I heard of the possibilty to run X-Servers under Windows. This would realy
be great.

Help of any kind (hints, addresses of ftps, any other information about
what you have done) would be very appreciated.

(Sorry for my bad english :-(, but i stay on improving)

Thanks, a lot

Bernhard Nessler
nessler@server.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

past 30 of June: c70470@u1.uibk.ac.at

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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Solution to serial-terminal problem...
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 08:22:48 GMT

In <2rcghq$2s3@wea.eel.ufl.edu> acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:

>A while back I posted an article describing problems I was having
>getting my hard-wired serial terminal to work under Linux (it would
>hang after a username was entered until the system was rebooted-- no
>passwd. prompt or further response).  Someone, whose name I
>unfortunately have forgotten, e-mailed me with a method to kind of
>kludge around this by spawning getty from a script instead of from
>init.

>Anyway, today I found that the real fix was to add the "CLOCAL" flag
>to the appropriate line (19200 in my case) in /etc/gettydefs.  This
>apparently prevents the getty from attempting to look at any
>handshaking lines (carrier detect et al.), and is necessary if you're
>using just a 3-wire serial cable.  This flag is *NOT* normally set in
>gettydefs (at least for the Slackware distribution I got).  I'm sure
>most of you already knew about this, but thought I'd post it just in
>case someone else was having the same difficulty.

I could have told you that...  it is the way it is supposed to work :-)

However, note that this change is going to hit you when you attach a
modem and use that same line.

I like a gettydefs file where the plain entries like "19200" have CLOCAL
set, and there are separate entries like "19200m" that don't.
Note that you can just copy and add lines to that file, and use their
name as a handle in the inittab file.
The last field on the line should have the same label, or it can be used
to form a 'ring' of entries to try different baudrates on a line.

Rob
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: kwong@cheops.Princeton.EDU (Wing C. KWONG)
Subject: porting MAGIC to PC running Linux
Reply-To: kwong@cheops.Princeton.EDU (Wing C. KWONG)
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 15:24:10 GMT


Do you know or have any experience on porting
Magic to PC running Linux?

I would appreciate if anyone could give me a 
pointer.

Thanks.



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From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Subject: Re: software communists was Re: BRIEF/vi Compatible GUI Text Editor
Date: 25 May 1994 19:41:13 GMT

Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
>That's a joke.) The point is that the status quo of the Linux community
>should be preserved, at least to some extent. If Novell is able to put
>a team of full-time professional programmers to work on Linux, they can
>essentially make the work of the many volunteers obsolete.

In areas where Novell does not do a better job than the volunteers, the
volunteers work won't be made obsolete.  In areas where Novell can do
a better job, what's wrong with making the volunteers work obsolete?

--Tim Smith

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From: Ryan J Snodgrass <rsai+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Will this work???
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 20:19:06 -0400

Is it possible to do the following?

    Here is what I am thinking of doing.  Installing Linux on a 386DX/40
with 4Megs of memory and approx 80-100meg HD and a Ethernet card.  After
I initially get Linux installed, the system will have no monitor
connected (I will have one available that I can hook up).  I will be
using the computer over the network card to another PC which already has
TCP/IP software running on it.  I would connect from the 486 to the
system running Linux via Telnet or an X connection.  The 486 is not
currently hooked up to the Internet except via a SLIP connection (this
is only during the summer).

  486DX/33  ---- Ethernet ---- 386DX/40
  MSDOS PC                     Linux PC

What else would I need in order to do this?  Is there anything bad with
this setup?  Also, will ANY SCSI host adapter work with Linux?  I want
to get a cheap SCSI adapter for this system as well and use SCSI disks. 
I already have a SCSI tape backup and SCSI CD-ROM drive I could use with
it.
Thanks for any help/info,
Ryan
--
Ryan Snodgrass <rsai@andrew.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science


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From: misch@misch@elara.fsag.de (Michaela Merz)
Subject: Re: software communists was Re: BRIEF/vi C
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 19:45:25 GMT
Reply-To: misch@misch@elara.fsag.de

In article e3n@news.u.washington.edu, tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
>Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:

>>If large companies such as Novell begin to depend upon the efforts of
>>volunteer programmers to produce a commercial operating system, they
>>have two choices: a) Put pressure on us to develop what they need; or b)
>>To take development into their own hands and obsolesce the work that we
>>have done. 
>
>a) Ignore them if you don't want to develop what they want.
>
>b) Novell is evil because they might be better than you at programming!?
>
>--Tim Smith

Is this one of the guys we're developing our software for? Get a life!

Michaela


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From: edb18@oliven.bih.no (Tonny Steen)
Subject: Re: Iomega tape drives
Date: 25 May 1994 07:34:56 GMT

Nicholas Hall (nrh@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi....

: Does anyone out there know if Iomega tape drives are supported by linux - 
: I'm thinking about getting hold of the 250 MB version.  If they are not
: supported, can anyone suggest an alternative (around 120 GBP) - I gather
: that the "Jumbo" series of tape drives are supported - would I need to get 
: extra drivers or do they come with the Slackware release?

: Thanks in advance,

Its all there (in Slackware I mean).

Altough I'm only able to retentioning and rewinding the tape so far.

I get a 'I/O Error' if I try to do anything else. Why ??? I don't know.

Tonny



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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: patrickr@sci.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen)
Subject: Re: who wants POV for Linux ???
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:30:40 GMT

In <2rullm$h34@styx.uwa.edu.au> povray@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (POVRAY account) writes:

>I have been hearing more and more about Linux and the more I hear
>the more I like it.

>I am not currently running Linux but have seriously considered setting 
>it up as it would allow me to do more work on POV for X-Windows than
>currently possible.

>How many readers would be interested in an officially-compiled and
>supported version of POVRAY, with X-Windows support, for LINUX ???

>If I get enough responses to make me think it is worthwhile, I'll
>set up Linux here and lobby the other team members to make an
>official release of a POV binary for Linux. Currently, there are
>*no* official POV binaries for any UNIX operating system.

Yes, I'm interested in POVRAY for Linux. Although there seem to be no official POV binaries for any UNIX system, I have been working with it on a unix system and, although it I found it to be a bit slow, the results were really nice, so again, yes: I'm interested in a version for linux.

>please reply here or email me.

[deleted lots of stuff]

>regards to all

>-- Chris Cason
>   POV-Team

Patrick Reijnen


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From: patrickr@sci.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen)
Subject: Re: Viewing GIFs easily under LINUX
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:36:38 GMT

In <2rtuul$dpo@nyx10.cs.du.edu> anon0b24@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Doom Guard) writes:


>What's a good program to view GIFs under Linux? I have a small collection,
>and I'd like to view them. I have standard VGA. I could thumb thru the
>faq and see how to switch to VGA mode, but if you can include the answer,
>I'd appreciate it. I think there was an install error when I installed
>the VGA library, or something. It doesn't seem to complie/work correctly.
>Thanks

Try xv. You can find the newest version on ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/xv.

This program can show images in a lot of formats and can also convert formats to other formats.


Patrick Reijnen

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From: slblake@eos.ncsu.edu (STEVEN L BLAKE)
Subject: Computerworld says "Expose, Schmexpose"
Date: 25 May 1994 20:31:23 GMT

The following is from the May 23, 1994 issue of Computerworld, Inside Lines
column, pg. 174, reprinted without permission:

    Expose, Schmexpose...

    Novell senior vice president Michael DeFazio confirmed last week
    that the vendor has no product plans for the so-called Expose, a
    strange UnixWare/DOS 7 hybrid with a three-dimensional graphical
    interface that Novell was reportedly going to announce in July
    for a mere $99.  Novell did demonstrate such technology at the
    Brainshare developer's conference in March along with other in-
    teresting, but experimental, technologies.  But as Burton Group's
    Jodie Mardesich pointed out: What's the point of merging two un-
    successful desktop operating systems?

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
| Steven L. Blake            slblake@eos.ncsu.edu |
| NC State University        (919)515-3916        |
| Center for Communications and Signal Processing |
| "In a technological society, those that don't   |
|  know math live at the mercy of those that do." |
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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From: cmcniel@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (C. McNiel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: CERT Advisory ??? WHAT! It doesn't work???
Date: 25 May 1994 15:32:05 -0500

I have recently read the CERT advisory for AIX and Linux.  I tried it on all
of our AIX boxes and met with success however I was unable to achieve the 
same results on the Linux box.  I'm running the Slackware that is on 
Sunsite.unc.edu and Ftp.cdrom.com and cannot duplicate this.  Have these 
versions of Linux been corrected or am I doing something wrong and still at
risk?

Thanks

Craig McNiel
University of Iowa
User Consultant

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From: "M.C. Wai" <R15892@PACCVM.corp.mot.com>
Subject: System halt when entering Xwindows
Date: 25 May 1994 23:15:25 -0400
Reply-To: R15892@PACCVM.corp.mot.com

Hi world,
   When I enter to X-windows by typing 'x', the system will halt.
Who can help me to fix it? My configuration is as follows:-
-486DX with 4M Ram
-Cirrus Logic 5422
-Slackware Linux

Is my display card problem? I can see the background color become grey
and a 'X' shape cursor. Afterward, the system is halt until I press
a reset button to reset it. [warm boot is not possible]


Regards,
MC Wai

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From: dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
Date: 25 May 1994 19:15:25 GMT
Reply-To: dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu

In <Cq9Cp8.IEp@novell.co.uk>, msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) writes:
): the point is to get people talking about what is a good nfs
): server. since linux isn't the best, people who need the
): best now should be aware of their options.
)
)The problem I was addressing is that this stuff is being CROSSPOSTED
)to comp.unix.unixware.  Now, UnixWare is most definitely NOT a 
)free operating system, and therefore has about the best NFS support
)imaginable. :-)  (I think it originates from Sun, through the old
)AT&T + Sun agreement.)
)
)Could you please remove the cross-post to comp.unix.unixware on a 
)thread, once it has nothing to do with it?

        Well, I was the one who started this thread, and I did want the input
of the Unixware people. For me, the free-ness was not an issue. I just wanted
and still want to know what the best NFS server (and client) platform is for
Intel PC's.
        Is Unixware significantly better than Linux ? or Solaris ?
                        Cheers,
                        Dan Ts'o                713-798-3331
                        Div. Neuroscience       FAX: 713-798-3897
                        Baylor College of Medicine
                        1 Baylor Plaza S603     dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
                        Houston, TX  77030      tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu 


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From: ewm@mdavcr.mda.ca (Eric W. Mitchell)
Subject: IHHD for Linux?
Date: 25 May 94 21:18:17 GMT


Does anyone out there have a version of the Internet Head-to-Head Daemon
(IHHD) that compiles and runs under Linux?

I ported IHHD to Linux myself a few months ago, but accidentally deleted
the file.  Rather than go through the hassle again, I'm hoping that
someone out there can save me the trouble.

Thanks,

Eric
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From: adam@adam.yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
Crossposted-To: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: Job opportunities at Yggdrasil
Date: 24 May 1994 19:53:10 GMT


        Yggdrasil Computing Inc., the operating systems company that
integrates free software "for the rest of us" has at least one
immediate job opening for an experienced Linux user with good phone
manners and professional demeanor.

        Although you will be expected to pitch in on whatever has to
get done during the course of the business day, you will have two main
job responsibilities:

                1. Sales
                2. Offloading first line technical support

        You will follow-up sales leads, promplty return phone calls,
accurately answer users' questions, and occasionally visit major local
accounts.

        You don't have to be an experienced programmer (although that
would be a plus), but Linux should be the primary operating system
that you use, preferably the Yggdrasil distribution. Ideally, you
should live in Linux.  Almost-native fluency in a foreign language (so
that you can translate our manual with complete technical accuracy),
or proficiency in desktop publishing software, would also be big
plusses.  Also, if done things that have contributed back to the Linux
community, that's a big plus.

        Salary is commensurate with experience.  A reasonably
experienced well mannered Linux user can expect to make $25-30k a year
in salary, commissions and revenue sharing.

        Email your resume with at three solid references in confidence
to adam@yggdrasil.com to fax it to 408-261-6631.  Plain text resumes
are fine.  Please do not call until I've had a chance to read your
resume.

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Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.             \  /                   the rest of us."
adam@yggdrasil.com                     || g g d r a s i l
4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205    ||  Computing Inc.    (408) 261-6630

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From: uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal)
Subject: DIP-3.3.7a released (:-)
Date: 25 May 1994 20:09:15 GMT

Hi and enjoy!

An updated DIP-3.3.7a is released and posted to
"sunsite.unc.edu" to "pub/Linux/Incoming"...

It fixes a couple of bugs in tty_close() code,
and it's tested on 1.1.13 kernel (make sure 
you have new "ifconfig" to use with it :-).

Dial-out works perfectly for me.  I didn't test
dial-in, but I assume after that tty_close() is
fixed, you should have no problem.But if you do,
complain! (:-)

Regards,
Uri.
============
<Disclaimer>

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From: geyer@polyhymnia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Helmut Geyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 PCI
Date: 25 May 1994 19:26:36 GMT

Steven M. Carter (scarter@ae.msstate.edu) wrote:
:>Does anyone out there know how to get an ATI Mach 64 PCI Video card working
:>with X?

As ATI did not give any information on the mach64 (and it looks like they are
pulling a Diamond) without nondiscolsure agreement, there is not too much hope
that you will get it working with XFree86 soon. You could be able to use the
add-on vga with the 2.1.1 SVGA server (no support for any acceleration!) or
the generic (Mono/VGA16) servers. I do not know whether these work, as I
haven't seen a Mach64 yet.

Followups to comp.windows.x.i386unix, the newsgroup these questions belong.

        Helmut
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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
Date: 25 May 94 21:52:30 GMT

In <2s084d$1qg@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu writes:

>       Well, I was the one who started this thread, and I did want the input
>of the Unixware people. For me, the free-ness was not an issue. I just wanted
>and still want to know what the best NFS server (and client) platform is for
>Intel PC's.

And you honestly expected all the people working on their own OS's to
say "Oh, the best would be X OS."???  Everyone is going to think
theirs is best, because they work on it and feel they've made it the
best.

Personally, I feel NetBSD or FreeBSD would do the best job for free.
I have valid reasons for saying so.  However, someone from another
camp probably has similar valid reasons for saying theirs is best.
Best for money?  I've heard nothing but good comments about BSDI's
BSD/386.  I know of several people who have dumped SCO operations to
convert over to BSDI's product.  Those are my impressions of the
issue...

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    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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