Re: OSS Alternative to RealPlayer
--- Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Can't help with the windoze side, but mplayer can do realaudio realvideo. For windows, check out media player classic. It's GPL and gets rid of all the realads. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RBL list
Does anyone have a current RBL list that is working? Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
rbash and sftp
Has anyone here gotten rbash to work with sftp? Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: rbash and sftp
--- Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:12:16 -0700 (PDT), Gary Wilson wrote: Has anyone here gotten rbash to work with sftp? Gary Nope. I'm using scponly. It supports sftp, scp and WinSCP (but not konqueror's FISH). Thanks. I had tried scponly. Thanks to Doug for the pointer to rssh, which I had also tried. Neither gives me what rbash does. It's a machine where running chroot isn't an option. But the user must be restricted to one directory only. scponly and rssh let you get in and wander freely and get and remove files. Its a specific problem machine that I need to do this with and rbash solves it for shell access, but sftp doesn't work. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Another dumb question about cablemodem and wireless network
--- Harry Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this work? LInux box, using a standard wired NIC plugs in to the W.A.P. and the Windows boxes on the network use the wireless cards. The cable modem goes into the router, then plugged into the W.A.P. The W.A.P. shouldn't care about the wired box being Linux, should it? This will work. Linux works fine with Netgear and Linksys, no expenience with D-Link. I had a lot of problems the G band wireless and Linux, but that was last February and maybe things have improved by now. Wireless B band works flawlessly. The Linux box can use DHCP to get everything from your WAP, if you've set up DHCP. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: sftp hash marks
--- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scp does this, which is the non-interactive version of sftp more of a cp command... On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:54:14 -0400 Shannon Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a method for showing hash marks or download/upload progress with sftp? I would like to get the same effect the hash command has for ftp. Thank You Shannon sftp won't do it. but sshtools.com has an sftp client that a java applet that will show up/down progress. it's open source gpl licensed Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection
Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39115920,00.htm __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT Open Source content management
--- Ian Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Is anyone familiar with the Typo3 content management system? http://typo3.com The Exec. Dir. of a non-profit I'm on the board of wants a quick yes or no whether to spend a fair chunk of coin on putting this system in place to help staff (who have no web experience) look after the website. typo3 is one of the CMS's I looked at when setting one up. i thought it was overly complex to manage and a resource hog. instead i chose and would strongly recommend bricolage (www.bricolage.cc) it is used for some big sites like macworld.com and salon.com (and some others that i can't remember right off the top of my head). once it is set up it is very easy for non-tech types to use to maintain web site. And it puts up very clean code that can be used by any standard web server without running anything more than apache. Linux Journal is publishing a series of articles about Bricolage. Reuven Lerner, who is writing the series, is also enthusiastic about Bricolage. Reuven covers the installation of Bricolage, as well as a discussion of Bricolage's dependencies (Apache, mod_perl, PostgreSQL, etc.). He also examines Bricolage's data model and its application architecture. It's a good, technically-oriented introduction to Bricolage. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6934 Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
worms worms worms
If you are in an all-Linux place, you are damn lucky. We are being bombarded with the Backdoor and Blaster worms and anyone who hasn't gotten their Microsoft updates in the last two weeks is being blown away. It's an epidemic. My Libranet box is just fine. But its my job to make sure that all those Windows boxen keep humming. Don't know when I'll make it out from under this one. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?
--- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? Unfortunately, I'm looking for something comparable to 'Network Neighborhood' or 'My Network Places'. Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq or Nautilus for such (they're a look but don't touch browser)? Any recommendations appreciated, Michael I like linneighborhood. It's like My Network Places, only much better. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Red Hat Goes on the Offensive Against SCO
Red Hat Goes on the Offensive Against SCO http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2244211 [about time someone did this] __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Tunneled file sharing server - server
--- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 August 2003 11:09 pm, someone claiming to be Gary Wilson wrote: --- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would NFS be a good way to make the shared folder available to ServerA and then share it with Samba? Can NFS and Samba work with the same directory and not collide? NFS works just fine with Samba. You can use an NFS mount and make it a Samba share. Which is different from sharing the same directory via NFS and SMB at the same time. That, as I understand it, can be a problem. So as long as the NFS mount isn't used as an NFS mount by other *n*x users, sharing an NFS mount via Samba should work fine. True. Very true. And I should have also added that it is not secure over the Internet. You still need to tunnel it. As someone else has already mentioned, stunnel (see http://www.stunnel.org/examples/) is being used successfully for secure samba connections over the Internet. Don't know about FreeSWAN, never used it with Samba. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
--- Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List I just installed a ne Linux on my laptop. All is fine except that when I try to su - root - enter password , I get permission denied. I can login in a virtual window as root, looks like user can not login as root. I must have overlooked something here. How do I fix this, I did add user name to root in webmin, but still no go. I must have punted the ball here. any help appreciated what version of linux? is it one of those that is BSD-like and requires you to be a member of wheel in order to su as root? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: spam issues
--- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If email doesn't go through because of a well-chosen blacklist (this includes RBL's which actually block SPAM servers, which I left out of my early post), the problem is theirs to fix, not yours. The reason you choose RBL's CAREFULLY, is because not all RBL's are created equal. SpamCop and (most of) Osirusoft are pretty reputable. What I mean by that is, they are deterministic (they take complaints, verify when possible, and take action) and they are reasonable for removing a server. This allows those servers which were blacklisted by mistake (Administrator mistake, that is) are able to correctly configure their server and easily submit a request and be removed from the RBL. I'm sorry, but Email administration is a job. You have to learn how to do it. There are many tools available to make it simpler, but as in all skilled trades, it helps to have friends who can help you learn... Don't bicker to Computerworld about your email getting blocked or your site blocking email. Fix the problem. Either reconfigure your servers, STOP SENDING SPAM, or don't use certain RBL's. My point is that the bad RBL's don't make the good RBL's any less good. Just don't use the bad ones... Examples of what is generally good to use (in sendmail.mc format): FEATURE(`dnsbl', `Dialups.relays.OsiruSoft.com', `Dialup servers rejected by policy -- use the mail server your ISP provides')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.njabl.org', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `proxies.relays.monkeys.com', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.sorbs.net', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', `', `')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `')dnl *note: you can pick and choose which to use. I recommend using the Dialups RBL, and OpenRelay RBL and a couple others. I recommend 3-4 per server, but some very reputable professionals are running as many as 6 or 7 on major servers. Examples of what NOT to use: selward (xbl.sel.werd.cx) urbl (The Ultimate RBL-Blocks all of IPv4 :) 510 (blackholes.5-10-sg.com) Spews (spews.relays.osirusoft.com) DorkSlayers (ztl.dorkslayers.com) Unfonfirmed (Unconfirmed.dsbl.org) MultiHop (multihop.dsbl.org) An interesting list. I don't agree with you about spamcop, having had some very difficult encounters with them. Some of the sites that get listed there seem to be done so at the personal whim of the guy who runs it and can be very difficult to deal with. I would add the bl servers at rfc-ignornant.org, which includes : postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org -- Sites that do not have postmaster@ addresses abuse.rfc-ignorant.org -- Sites that do not have abuse@ addresses dsn.rfc-ignorant.org -- Sites that do not accept bounces whois.rfc-ignorant.org -- Sites that do not have proper WHOIS information Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Open Antivirus
While we are discussing email and spam, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with CLAM anti-virus, found at http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ ? I'm looking at anti-virus solutions for a Linux mailserver now that Microsoft has bought RAV and is in the process of shutting it down. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: spam issues
--- Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are useful, but... whois.rfc-ignorant.org -- Sites that do not have proper WHOIS information This one can be totally bogus as it depends on the maintainers of the whois databases, not on the ISPs themselves. I'm not sure what you mean here. Anything on the whois.rfc-ignorant.org bl has been submitted and tested and found to not have a correct whois listing in more than just one whois server. At least that is how I read the description on the rfc-ignorant.org web site. I've been using it without any problems. But maybe there's something about it that I don't understand. Sure wouldn't be the first time. Care to explain why it is bogus to depend on the whois databases? Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Tunneled file sharing server - server
--- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would NFS be a good way to make the shared folder available to ServerA and then share it with Samba? Can NFS and Samba work with the same directory and not collide? NFS works just fine with Samba. You can use an NFS mount and make it a Samba share. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: poll: best pop3 and imap servers?
subject about says it all. what pop3 and imap servers does everyone prefer? and why? thanks I like Courier-IMAP. The reason? It works well with Postfix. As a sendmail guy this may not be much help to you. But I prefer Postfix and I've found that Courier works well with it. If you don't have a heavy load and you want to stick with sendmail, UW IMAP works. It's easy to set up and maintain. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RE: [OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????
--- Wil McGilvery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any of this affect FreeBSD? No. It went through the legal vetting a decade ago. For the truly obsessed (you know who you are), for those who run for cover as soon as SCO says boo (pay me or else), you should switch to OpenBSD. It's obsessively pure in its code. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: poll: best pop3 and imap servers?
--- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Wilson wrote: I use uw-imap with postfix. It worked immediately upon install (debian/libranet linux). Yes, I didn't mean to imply that UW-imap wouldn't work with Postfix. I should have clarified that what I was saying was that Courier-IMAP works with Postfix, my preferred MTA. And that Courier has performed very well. UW-imap installs very easily, but it was much slower when handling a load. Have the postfix-Courier-IMAP-SquirrelMail combo set up for a system that serves about 200 users. Works well. Courier also supports secure connections (SSL), though I haven't set that up yet, so I can't comment on Courier's implementation of it. If you have a small mail server and don't handle a load, UW-imap might be the best choice. It is easy to set up and maintain and works very reliably, if somewhat slowly. IIRC, it has some issues with making folders, but there was a workaround. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: network problem: internet sharing ot
--- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The WinXP wizard for networking detected it's place on my LAN (Netgear router) automagically, setup for DHCP, and even enabled File and Printer Sharing without any of the screwing around I've had to do in the past. Only 1 reboot. g I was able to copy all the The secret here is that you got XP Pro, which has full networking support. It can still get tricky. If the automatic settings don't work, manual configuration is a real dog and it will keep trying to go back to the automatic settings. XP Home edition has minimal networking support. It's a dog and should be banned from all computer systems, along with Windows ME, its close cousin. You can boot up with Knoppix and get the same kind of automatic networking and Samba support is built in. It has Linneighborhood installed and has almost always found other computers on the network for me. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Libranet review, sorta
Over the last couple of days I've started using Libranet and I want to add my 2 cents to the earlier discussion of it and other distros. Back when I saw that I had to move away from Caldera to another Linux distribution, I checked a whole bunch of them. Slackware was a strong contender. But then I started using Debian and the Debian package manager and the apt updater were killer apps. I couldn't go back to RPMs or any other package manager I'd tried. So I began using Debian pretty much exclusively. Then along came Knoppix, a distribution based on Debian that has everything in it that I was always slowly adding myself, plus a few things that were new to me. So then whenever I'd show someone Linux or set up a new Linux box I'd started using Knoppix. It's been very popular. I'd resisted Libranet and the other distributions that were't available for free. But something came up last week and without going into the details I found the Knoppix wasn't going to work. But I didn't want to move away from a Debian-based system. So I went ahead and purchased Libranet. And it was a good experience. In fact, I'd say that I liked it so much I may make it the default system I install for new users. If you've got the money, it's worth it (I don't think that Lindows is worth the money, I've installed it and didn't like it, it is not secure by default and in its effort to be like MS Windows it has too many things that are not stardard Debian/Linux for my tastes). The review of Libranet by Leon in Linux Journal (http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6878mode=threadorder=0) covers the features. Libranet has a nice, easy to use administration panel that helps do administration of the system by the user. And it has a very good installer that lets you choose what packages to install, helps you partition the drive and all that. Though it is more uptodate than Red Hat 9, I don't think that Libranet is set up to stay on the cutting edge the way Knoppix does. It does not include support for the XFS file system, which Knoppix includes. It defaults to ReiserFS. But cutting edge is not always where you want to be on the desktop anyway. Libranet sets up a very stable desktop system that is pure Debian. That's a very good thing. That's my two cents. As for Gentoo, it is great and has a very good package system, one that is equal to Debian's (some things about it are better, some things about Debian's are better, I think its a wash as to which is better). But the installation process is quite time-consuming. And since I am setting up 3 or 4 desktop systems a week, I don't really have time to do Gentoo (I can't just clone the systems because they are used for medical research projects and each one requires a custom build for the hardware and software being used by the project.) Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sound Problems in Red Hat 9
--- Iraj Medifar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed RH9. Overall, it works fine for me, but I have been experiencing problems getting my sound card to work. My Intel 82801 AC '97 - i810 was detected and configured automatically during installation. And I do have sound events as root. But there it all ends. As user, I cannot get the sound events to work or the CD player to play music. I am wondering if my problem is among those referred to Could be a permissions problem. I think that every user that must be a member of the audio group in order to have the right permissions to use sound with ALSA. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File and Print Proof of Concept Competition
--- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this information, Gary! That's good to know. I'll have to snag the source and try it out. yes, this stuff is finally working in version 3. Beta 3 was released today. It is expected to be the last beta for version 3. What I'm most concerned with at this point is NOT having to touch the Linux box (or access it as a guru would). More specifically, it is important that we not have to create the user id's on the Linux box, that access is somehow granted to the filesystem simply by granting rights in the AD. It's ok if the rights themselves are assigned at the filesystem level, so long as we can put together a Windows-user friendly method of managing them. There are about 200-300 LAN Admins who will need to be able to do this without too much retraining. You should be able to do that. Read the Samba docs on AD, LDAP and Winbind. here's the updated samba docs, not available in any book: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File and Print Proof of Concept Competition
--- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was chosen as part of the Linux/Samba team and I'd like to make sure our POC solution does the technology justice. I am a firm Open Source evangelist, so my reasons are many and varied. The solution which seems most palatible is Distributed Samba, using a central directory for administration of authentication and rights. While I would ordinarily choose OpenLDAP, the company has a strong push for AD and a large dependence upon eDirectory currently, so we would like to use one of these directory services for said administration. Matthew, Samba version 3 has made great strides in this area. Version 3 is now in its second beta, and the developers expect it to be finalized in August. From the Samba team's description of version 3: Major new features: --- 1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/Kerberos. 2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte and UNICODE character sets. 3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable. 4) New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps persistently. This needs lots of testing. 5) A new net command has been added. It is somewhat similar to the net command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands in net. 6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot. 7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: MS wins Homeland Security Bid!!
Bet you feel more secure now ;-) __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Linux vs. xxxBSD
--- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is xxxBSD really more stable than Linux? no, both are stable Is xxxBSD really a better performer than Linux? no, both can be made to perform well or perform badly what you don't say is what the application is that you will be running, what database you will be using, or other details. that is more important. For example, see FreeBSD or Linux for your MySQL server at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Can't read CD in linux, can in xp
At work I created a data cd with images, large and small (300kb up to 33 megs), with easy CD creator or some such. I ran the option to make the cd readable by all cd readers. This was on windows 2000. I think that your problem may be with CD Creator, which is a packet writer and which creates non-standard CDs that are often only readable on Windows machines only, and then only if you have CD Creator installed and running on the machine. Try using Roxio's standard CD writer and I'll bet that the CD you create will be truly Joliet conformant and readable on your Linux boxes. Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Electronics Giants Love Linux (Forbes)
Electronics Giants Love Linux Arik Hesseldahl, 07.02.03, 1:45 PM ET NEW YORK - If there's ever going to be a great galaxy of consumer electronics devices that are all connected by a home network and through that network to the Internet itself, it's going to run Linux. At least that's what some of the world's most prominent manufacturers have said with the formation of an industry group--the CE Linux Forum-- that will promote Linux in future products. The companies involved aren't some small batch of die-hards. They make up the crux of the consumer electronics industry: Japanese firms Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ); Matsushita (nyse: MC - news - people ), parent of Panasonic; NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ); Sharp; Toshiba; and Hitachi (nyse: HIT - news - people ); Royal Philips Electronics (nyse: PHG - news - people ) from The Netherlands; and Samsung from South Korea. IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) reportedly wants to join too. Certainly the creation of the group is a warning shot at PC software juggernaut Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), which thinks home networks, PCs and consumer electronics should interact without involving a penguin, the Linux mascot. It's clear is what electronics manufacturers don't want: A royalty bill from Microsoft. Already used to operating on razor-thin profit margins with the products they make, using Linux software, which is freely available, should save them all money on developing future products. For Sony in particular, taking part in the forum is the latest step in its duel with Microsoft. Linux is already the basis for Sony's CoCoon initiative, which involves giving TV sets and other entertainment devices a network connection, a hard drive and the ability to connect to broadband Internet connections. If Sony's plans are an indication of what to expect from its new partners, that means an increase in security for copyrighted digital content such as movies and music. Of course, central to all that is a PC running Windows. And Microsoft has its own ideas for connecting the home and all the electronic devices in it. It has been promoting the Media Center PC version of the Windows operating system for more than a year now with some success. The software turns a PC into a TV, jukebox and a video recorder among other things. Its Smart Display technology allows portable flat-panel displays access to PCs elsewhere in the home for surfing the Web and accessing PC files. And its Windows CE .NET software for embedded devices has been demonstrated on household appliances as diverse as an exercise bike, a DVD player, a portable digital media player that can handle music and video, and a sewing machine. Obviously, there's a battle brewing. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Linus to work full-time on Linux
June 17, 2003 Linus Torvalds Joins Development Group By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:30 p.m. ET SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The creator of the Linux operating system is joining a global development group to focus on further improving the open-source software. Linus Torvalds said Tuesday he is taking a leave from his research job at chip-maker Transmeta Corp. He will become the first fellow at the Beaverton, Ore.-based Open Source Development Lab, which is funded by high-tech companies to, among other things, enhance Linux for corporate data centers. At the lab, he will focus on the next major revision of the Linux core, or kernel. ``It feels a bit strange to finally officially work on what I've been doing for the last 12 years, but with the upcoming 2.6.x release it makes sense to be able to concentrate fully on Linux,'' he said. Torvalds, then a university student in Finland, created Linux in 1991 to bring the power and reliability of the Unix operating system to relatively inexpensive computers based on Intel Corp. microprocessors. He freely distributed the software, requiring that improvements also be open and freely distributed. In recent years, it has become a low-cost alternative to proprietary Unix operating systems such as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP/UX, IBM Corp.'s AIX and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris. Some companies and government agencies also have embraced Linux over the dominant Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. The research firm Gartner predicts Linux may have 15 percent of the worldwide server market by 2007. Torvalds, who joined Transmeta before it launched its Crusoe microprocessor in 2000, is taking an indefinite leave from the chip maker. Neither he nor the company have elaborated on his role at Transmeta since he joined six years ago. The Open Source Development Lab is sponsored by Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC and others. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Want to work on a book?
I was recently contacted about writing a Linux book. Can't give you all the details. But I can say that it's not something I can do right now. I told the agent who contacted me that I might know one or two others who are might be interested. If any of you are interested in writing a book (it will take every waking minute of you life, believe me), then you can contact me off-list and I'll give you more details and I'll be glad to pass along your name. Reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: nslook, dig, tracerroute
I want to load these utilities onto my lindows box. However, I can't find any debian package which has them. for traceroute install iputils-tracepath for dig and nslookup install dnsutils Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Novell says SCO doesn't own Unix
Novell torpedoes SCO's Unix IP claim By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 28/05/2003 at 16:26 GMT In the latest installment of The Canopy Family - a drama to rival the The Magnificent Ambersons - Novell has rebuffed SCO's claim to hold Unix copyrights and patents. SCO recently filed a billion dollar suit against IBM, claiming that Big Blue had violated SCO's intellectual property by incorporating elements of UnixWare into Linux. It's a contract dispute, but SCO's case is holed below the waterline if Novell's claims are true, and SCO's bag of intellectual property is found to be empty. In a prepared statement , Novell doesn't pull its punches. Novell challenged SCO's assertion that it owns the copyrights and patents to UNIX System V, pointing out that the asset purchase agreement entered into between Novell and SCO in 1995 did not transfer these rights to SCO. Novell also discloses that SCO has been begging Novell for the rights to IP that SCO claims it already has: Over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected. And that, in British tabloid parlance, is a bombshell. Apparently SCO's management team knew that they did not own Unix while pursuing their sham campaign against Linux, observes Bruce Perens. The dispute has the character of a family affair, which perhaps goes some way to explaining SCO's dysfunctional behavior. Former Novell chief Ray Noorda founded Canopy Group in 1995, and one of his first investments was Caldera, a company founded by Novell employees and Linux enthusiasts. Caldera acquired the Santa Cruz Operation two years ago __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
And ... Microsoft loses to Linux in Munich
UPDATE 2-Microsoft loses city of Munich deal to Linux Reuters, 05.28.03, 12:36 PM ET By Hans Nagl MUNICH, May 28 (Reuters) - The city of Munich said on Wednesday it would switch 14,000 computers from Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) Windows operating system to rival Linux in a deal estimated to be worth tens of millions of euros. The decision is a blow to U.S. giant Microsoft, whose chief executive Steve Ballmer had personally campaigned for Microsoft's counter-offer to the city, based on Windows XP. Microsoft has created two funds to discount its products against the emerging Linux software, which is eating into its most profitable business. This strategic decision makes Munich less dependent on one IT supplier and sets a trend towards more competition, Munich mayor Christian Ude said in a statement. Analysts said Munich's decision to choose open source software, which means Linux, was a breakthrough. It is one of the largest desktop migrations to Linux ever seen, said Gartner Dataquest analyst Nikos Drakos in London. Linux suppliers welcomed the move by of one of Germany's largest cities, where many of the country's biggest corporations have their headquarters. You can compare this to the fall of the Berlin Wall, said Richard Seibt, Chief Executive of Linux software provider Suse. Suse is bidding for the Linux contract together with International Business Machines Corp (nyse: IBM - news - people). Linux is considered by many to be the only big rival to Microsoft's Windows and can already be found on 15 percent of all computers sold in Western Europe. A Microsoft spokesman in Munich said his company was still at hand if the city found that certain units could not switch over to Linux. Some applications do not run on Linux, he said. LINUX GROWING IN GERMANY The Munich decision comes as the German government is installing Linux throughout certain ministries and public institutions. In the northern state of Lower Saxony, 11,000 police computers will be switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux from next year, according to the interior ministry. Companies and governments are increasingly opting for Linux, written by Linus Torvalds and further developed on the Web with the help of thousands of volunteer programmers, because it is a stable software and not controlled by just one company. Hundreds of companies distribute the software, charging little or nothing for the core software, but taking fees on modifications, services and maintenance. IBM and Suse declined to give the value of the bids for their Linux offerings. Media have reported that Microsoft's offer of about 27.3 million euros ($32.3 million) had been almost three million euros below that of the Linux competitor, but the city had still chosen Linux for strategic reasons. Microsoft confirmed it had offered discounts for the total project, but declined to give details. (Additional reporting by Lucas van Grinsven in Amsterdam) Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
