In article <Jul.6.18.19.15.1993.10722@geneva.rutgers.edu> What functions are affected, directly or indirectly, by these files? Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.

Correction: Linus Torvalds has placed the Linux kernel under the GPL, but he has not donated it to the FSF. He still owns the copyright. It is therefore not a "GNU product". If an interpretation of the GPL should find that binary distribution of Linux executables is forbidden, and Linus doesn't like this, he is free to add a clause granting people any additional rights that he deems appropriate. He cannot do this for the libraries, since they are, for the most part, owned by the FSF, but they a...

We are running ATI Ultra Pro cards and they work very well. I would recommend purchasing an orchid (or any S3 based card) because the xfree development team uses S3 cards for development. When xfree 2.0 comes out, I am sure that the accelerated S3 drivers will be working and bug free while the ATI drivers will still be buggy or under-featured. S3 cards are much cheaper also. The Ultra Pro VLB is around $400-$500 while and S3 local bus is around $200-250 and even cheaper in some places. The ATI...

In comp.os.linux, article <C9pyMq.CI@bigcomm.gun.de>, ... unless you tell the C++ compiler to use C encoding. Don't do that. Use a file in /proc instead. The additional kernel code is minimal, it's _much_ easier to get the info with generic tools, and you're If the driver is compiled with the appropriate C++ headers it will link without any problems. -- Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down and write it as it occurs to you. The writing is easy -- it's the occurring that...

Hmm. I think the questions are. Facts. 1. Linux is a GNU product. Significant parts of it are covered by the GPL (e.g. the kernel) 2. It is technically possible to build RIPEM/RSAREF on Linux. 3. The resulting binary would be a "product" designed to work with Linux. It would be useless to anyone not running Linux. 4. Someone is selling Motif for Linux. Questions: 1. Can one build RIPEM/RSAREF for Linux? 2. Can one use RIPEM/RSAREF on a Linux system? 3. Can one distribute a Linux ripem b...

... Unfortunately there are several things in Linux libc that are covered by the GPL. These include gdbm, regex, termcap, and single files from locale, misc, sbin, and time. I asked Len Tower of the FSF to clarify the situation. He has passed it on to rms, but his preliminary reaction is that using dynamic linking does not change the legal status of libraries. I think this position is both harmful to the long-term progress of free software and legally unenforceable. But few companies are like...

Browsing through this months freebee computer magazine, I happened upon the full-page ad of ``Promox Systems'', a local PC vendor. In the middle of the ad, they offer ``Ready to run LINUX/GNU/X in CD.........$60'' For another two bills, they throw in a CD rom drive. Interestingly, they list Linux FIRST, then AT&T SVR4, then UniVel, etc. - Jerry Kaidor ( tr2!jerry@dragoman.com ) -- ***************************************************************************** ...

OK, here we go again: 'windows-linux swap in common?'. Perhaps time for moving this into the FAQ (I assume it's not there already, havn't checked...)? A swap *file* cannot be shared between, as dos can't access the linux file system and linux can't swap on the dos file system. However a linux swap partion can be made into a swap file for windows at the cost of a few seconds longer time to reboot. If you want to do things the same way as I have done then follow these steps: (remember to subtit...

I'm stumped. I'm running an un-networked 486 with Linux .99pl9 as a kind of hobby BBS with uucp news and mail. When I finer any user, however, their last login time is 'Never logged in'. If I do a last <username> they are listed as STILL logged in. Their shell processes are not still running. wtmp is created as expected but I do not know how to read its contents. /var/adm/lastlog is NOT being created. If anyone can help, even with a flame-ridden pointer to the appropriate FAQ (I have them...

Hello, A friend lend me his soundblaster-board, and I am toying around with the devices, and some things are not clear to me - I am new to the world of soundcards :-) I found .wav, mod, .midi, .voc - files at a local site, I could play the wav by simply cat-ing them to /dev/dsp, and in the case of glass.wav this sounds good - I put it in /etc/profile :-) But again on some others where there is language in it, it is simply painfully slow and thus low, you understand next to nothing... How ca...

Since I am the author of fvwm and maintainer or rxvt, I guess I should comment... The version of fvwm and rxvt which is available by ftp from sunsite and tsx-11, is quite old, and has a number of bugs. I will make up a new release in the next week or so, and put it in the usual places. The current release still has a few pesky bugs, which I will fix sooner or later: 1. SOmeone said that rxvt doesn't compile with libc-4.4.1 2. Another report of a problem with a few tcl/tk windows and fvwm I ...

Whoa whoa whoa, some 'wizard' cross posted this thread .. oh maybe last friday... from a discussion in the NT group.. to the Linux group merely becuase he/she/it (I don't remember/care).. mentioned Linux. I am sure everyone can understand the motivation, poster is thinking "The are untruths being spread about <your-topic-here>! I should set them straight, and make sure the <same-topic-here> readers know about this grave injustice!" Though some facts may get straightened out, it really...

Can some kind soul with a Diamond Speedstar Plus video card email me their X11 configuration files (any and all files). I don't really have the time to sit down and hack this through, and I'd like to get X11 running asap. I'm sure there's someone out there with a Diamond card running X. Thanks. -- James Frizzell | Assistant Systems Administrator jfrizzel@cnde.iastate.edu | Center for Nondestructive Evaluation frizzell@iastate.edu | Iowa State University ...

well... i don't have a lot of experience with these things, but i thought i'd share my experiences here with lilo... in installing lilo (well, not quite, but the whole explanation is too embarassing and long to go into...:) i managed to nuke to mbr on my first disk (thank god linux was on the second disk, since there was almost nothing unrecoverable on the first, but i had lots of linux stuff not backed up...:) i had heard about the fdisk /mbr trick to restore things... i went back to my os/2 i...

Um, the source code must be available. That I think is the key point. There is nothing wrong with distributing an executable as long as the source code can be obtained. (Freely and I think from the same place you got the executable.) Anyhow, that at least is my understanding of the GPL withb regard to distributing executables. -Erik -- Erik Oliver Erik_Oliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu

OTOH, try to find a programmer that will tolerate some wierd k&r cc. -- =========================================================================== willmore@iastate.edu | "Death before dishonor" | "Better dead than greek" | David Willmore | "Ever noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!" | ===========================================================================

I have just install Linux and X11 on a 486DX-33. I fixed the mouse and display problems I have had, and X will start and get as far as giving me the oclock window, but then it freezes. I have only 4mb and am using a 4mb disk swap. Any suggestions? Thanks Michael Lefsky -- ===============+================================+============================ Michael A. Lefsky | Dept. Environmental Sciences | mal3p@virginia.EDU (804) 924-0532 | Clark Hall, Univ. of Virginia | mal3p@virginia.BI...

I've seen some of these ``modern'' operating systems, including AT&T's SYSVR4, IRIX4.*, Solaris, HPUX etc. but I enjoyed Linux the most. (Sourcecode availibility, great Let him use Windoze also in the future. -- (__) voice : +49-2407-575-353 oo ) |_/\ email : eedger@teamos.ericsson.se

Hi, I'm afraid I've found a way to panic the ALPHA-pl11 kernel pretty consistantly! If you use mtools and mdir a 720K dos disk (when you thought it was a 1.44M one!) and then wait for a bit, it'll say floppy 0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 1 about 5 or 6 times then Floppy I/O error dev 021c, sector 0 and that's yer lot... "Unable to handle kernel paging request at address c0000070..." Looking further, I find EIP is 0010:00054A2B which in my build is in end_request...

In article <218d8l$llg@flode.nvg.unit.no> agulbra@nvg.unit.no (Arnt BSDI, the group of ex-CSRG OS researchers who started a company to finish, sell, and support a port of BSD UNIX to Intel, regularly fixes bugs on this schedule. I'm on their mailing list. I see a quickie patch go out, then some days later a tested approved one. Their OS is $1000 with complete source. (Please no BSDI vs. Linux flames, I understand the differences.) -- Another member of the League for Programming Freed...

Help! I've tried to make my X11 startable. My equipment ET4000 Microsoft Bus Mouse X11 starts normally still it looks for the mouse. The it tell me it couldn't fiind any mouse and stops starting. After reading many documentation i'm still unable to set up Xconfig rigth. I hope anyone can get rid of my problem and give me a hand Hopfully Thomas Jachmann EMail: fn0612@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de

Is there any kind of replacement console driver available for Linux that would allow each virtual console to store output as it scrolls off the screen, so that previously-displayed text could be displayed in a hotkey-accessed backscroll mode? I'm thinking of something along the lines of what the "Telix" MS-DOS communications package offers (accessed by Alt-B). I know that I can get this functionality by using Xterms inside the X environment, but I prefer to stay in text mode whenever possible to av...

A couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion on this group about the shutdown command just printing the usage stuff and exiting without doing a shutdown. I am having this problem on the system I just installed. I didn't keep the messages from that thread while it was running, and the messages are already gone from our news server. Could someone send me a summary of the discussion, or a suggestion on what to do about this? Thanks, -- Monte Freeman -- Operations Department / Informa...

I recently installed an Adaptech 1542c on my Gateway 486/66 E machine. It also has an adaptec 1742 card. The machine has an eisa bus, and ran linux 99 pl 4 fine. After adding the second adaptec card, which has a tape and cd connected, and is set up at irq 12 and no bios enabled, but otherwise in 1542b mode (Floppies are disabled), the system boots fine, but on a reboot the settings of the 1542c have been scrambled, in that the 1542c is back at irq 11 and with the bios active. The disk is on the 1742 ...

May I suggest downloading the bootutils package from sunsite. When I downloaded it, it was in the Incoming directory, but it may be elsewhere now... Just follow the instructions and it should work... it worked for me. If you have any questions, just email me... Anthony -- Anthony Hall _ _ Unix System Administrator aehall@seattleu.edu /_/ /_/ Physician Micro Systems, Inc. _ _ 2033 6th Ave Suite...