Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:58:20 05/22/02
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On May 22, 2002 at 15:03:14, Guido Schimmels wrote: >On May 22, 2002 at 14:01:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 21, 2002 at 12:07:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >[big snip] > >>> - getting files from a CDrom. Default the cd drives aren't automounted. >> >> >>Sorry but if you run X, then "magicdev" is running and it _will_ automatically >>mount the CD if you insert it. > >Never heard of this one. New in 4.2 ? > No. It was on my 7.1 and 7.2 redhat installs. Might have been on 7.0 as well... >[snip] > >>> - Scanner. Could *anyone* tell me how to get to work my HP scanner under >>> linux? I do not know it at all. I would appreciate if someone knew. >>> So after nearly 10 years of experience with linux, i still don't know >>> how to get a scanner to work! >> >>Read the HOWTO. If it is SCSI plug it in and choose your scanner >>software. > >Buying one of the USB-scanners that work is cheaper. SCSI-controllers >and SCSI-devices don't pay off on a modern PC. Too much extra money for >what you get. USB is also ok. USB stuff works great on my sony laptop and redhat 7.2... > >> >>> - capitals versus lower case. This is IMHO the biggest mistake in the >>> unix world, which Bill didn't make. Linux sees a difference between >>> Linux and linux. It is called linux, not Linux. Because linux sees >>> a difference between lower case and capitals. So please spell it as >>> linux. Not as Linux... >> >> >>This was _not_ a mistake. It was a mistake in CPM, carried over into MSDOS >>and windows. Case-sensitive is a _good_ thing since most operating systems >>are case-sensitive. As are most humans... > >As is the C programming language Vincent uses for his chess engine, buy they way >;-) >The unix shell is nothing else than another programming environment. Why use >different conventions then ? Especially as chess engines nowadays are mostly >integrated into the gui the unix way even on Windows ! > >>IE are you vincent or Vincent? How do you sign your name? > >[snip] > >>> - Now i talk about Redhat of course, but compared to redhat other >>> distributions with exception perhaps of Debian (Suse doesn't count >>> as you can't download that for free, i need to BUY it in a shop >>> in order to get a legal working copy), they suck ass anyway, but >>> there are major problems with the size it needs. >> >>This is wrong. _all_ linux distributions must be downloadable or they >>violate the GPL the linux kernel is distributed under. > >How about Caldera ? > It must be downloadable, although since I only use redhat now I won't begin to tell you where to look. >>I have downloaded >>SUSE in the past, but I prefer redhat personally. > >Yes, but they put their latest distro on their servers with a month or so >delay. Tell me if this no longer true. Redhat doesn't. I don't know about SUSE any longer. But redhat has the ISO images for new releases up on their web site prior to their being released and sold. They even make beta releases available even earlier.. > >[snip] > >-Guido-
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