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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:answerguy@ssc.com">answerguy@ssc.com</a><BR>
Starshine Technical Services,
<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
<p><strong><A HREF="#tag_greeting"><img
src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(!)"
hspace="10" border="0">Greetings from Jim Dennis</a></strong></p>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_versions.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Version-a-go-go
and the Tragedy of being "Left Behind"</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_lilo.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Removing Lilo
from a multi-boot machine</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_virtdom.html"><img
src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
hspace="10" border="0"></a>Question on sendmail... --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_virtdom.html"><STRONG>'<tt>sendmail</tt>' <tt>FEATURE</tt>
creatures for virtual domain and generic re-write tables</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_kernel.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Kernel
crashes</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_winmodem.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Winmodems --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_winmodem.html"><STRONG>More on 'WinModems': How to "lose"
Gracefully</STRONG></A> - Just say No!
<dt><A HREF="tag_basicmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Mail on a LAN Linux
to NT --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_basicmail.html"><STRONG>Basic e-mail Setup for
Linux?</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_betterbak.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Remote Tape
Backups</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_shadow.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
><STRONG><tt>adduser</tt></STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_dell.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Letter to Dell
- Linux on Dell Hardware</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_dumbterm.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Hello --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_dumbterm.html"><STRONG>Connecting a Dumb Terminal to your
Linux System</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_whylinux.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
><STRONG>Why Linux?</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_redhat.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
><STRONG>Redhat telnet</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_netcard.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"
><STRONG>Network Cards</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_macrovir.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>A little note about
"good times" or emailed viruses --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_macrovir.html"><STRONG>"Good Times"
are Spread to the "Great Unwashed"</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_newlook.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>The Answer Guy --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_newlook.html"><STRONG>Regarding the Column's
New Look</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_tacacs.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>TACACS+ client for
Linux --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_tacacs.html"><STRONG>TACACS and RADIUS Authentication
Models for Linux and/or PAM</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_sendmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Sendmail jam --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_sendmail.html"><STRONG>'<tt>sendmail</tt>' Log Jams and
Capacity Problems</STRONG></A>:
running extra '<tt>sendmail -q</tt>' processes
<dt><A HREF="tag_dialdppp.html"><img
src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
hspace="10" border="0"></a>PPP connection and diald --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_dialdppp.html"><STRONG>Co-ordinating diald and Manual
PPP</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_ppp233.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>getting
ppp-2.3.3 to work</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_msmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Mail access --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_msmail.html"><STRONG>Getting at MS-Mail from within
Linux</STRONG></A>: The Myriad Ways to Co-exist with MS Windows
<dt><A HREF="tag_procmail.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" hspace="10" border="0"></a>Program for
Mailer Daemons --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_procmail.html"><STRONG>Automated Handling for MAILER-DAEMON
Messages</STRONG></A>: Read The Sources, Luke.
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<h2>Linux Gazette: The Answer Guy for June, 1998</h2>
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The theme for this month seems to be "vendor support for Linux." From
the responses to my open letter to Dell, through the common problems
with "winmodems" and "winprinters" and even to the impossible dream of
running MS Windows applications and accessing Microsoft proprietary
formats from native Linux applications --- we continue to fight uphill
battles with so many vendors.
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This isn't new in the broader Unix world. Readers of
<em><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue12/rquarter.html"
>A Quarter Century of Unix</a></em> by Peter H. Salus should recognize
this as a as an attitude that has dominated hardware vendors for almost
thirty years. They've been prdicting the "death" of Unix (and the "death of
the Internet) almost since from the beginning.
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There is some hope on the horizon. As some of you may have heard or
read <a href="http://www.corelcomputer.com">Corel Computer</a>
(the hardware division of the famous software
company) is basing it's NC (network computer) on a Strong-ARM version of
Linux. Within a week or two after that Corel Software announced their
intention of porting the rest of the applications suite to Linux (their
WordPerfect 7 and 8 have been available in Linux versions for some
time).
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A little further afield it appears that
<a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple Inc</a> is starthing to make
some sense with their future OS strategy --- by "thinking different",
or "outside of the box" in a manner of speaking. Specifically they've
apparently decided to skip the planned version of Rhapsody with its
"blue" and "yellow" boxes that separated the MacOS and the
Mach/NeXTStep (Unix) personalities. Apparently buried in their
announcement for
<a href="http://developer.apple.com/macosx/">MacOS X</a> ("ten") is the i
rumor that your "NeXT"
(Rhapsody) native applications will co-exist on the same desktop
with yor MacOS programs --- and that the MacOS API's will be seamlessly
supported with all the multi-threaded support that the Mach microkernel
can provide. Of course you have to hear that as rumors, or read
between the lines with a considerable background in the Macintosh
architecture since it is not apparent from their own press releases,
or from the <a href="http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/top/080332.htm"
>San Jose Mercury News</a> articles on the subject. The
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/daily/0511apple.html"
>San Francisco Examiner</a> sings a similarly hollow tune.
However, I'm not alone in my opinion as we see in
<a href="http://mackido.netgate.net/Opinion/RhapsodyDead.html"
>David K. Every's article</a>.
<br><br>
I suspect he knows <strong>way</strong> more than I do on the subject.
<br><br>
Oddly the <a href="http://www.macosrumors.com/">MacOS Rumors</a> web site
seems to have no mention MacOS X on their site.
<br><br>
What does this have to do with Linux? Well, I can only continue to
speculate that <a href="http://www.mklinux.apple.com/">mkLinux</a>
binaries will eventually run under MacOS X (Rhapsody). I can also still hope
that, with the progress in the G3's, and the plans for the G4
generations of the PowerPC platform, and hopefully the continued
availability development of the DEC (Compaq) Alpha processor, we'll see
some real choices and competition in the market place. Linux is the
one OS that crosses all of these (and Sun
<a href="http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux/faq.html">SPARC</a>'s and
<a href="http://www.linux.sgi.com/">SGI</a> MIPS and others).
Some form of Unix is available on just about every platform, whether or not
it supports Linux.
<br><br>
As we look beyond the world of PC clones we see that there is some
vendor support. There is some hope that Microsoft's legacy will be
the separation of hardware vendors from their "control" hegemony.
Before Microsoft it was the norm for computer manufacturers to almost
completely control the availability of software for their platforms
--- Unix has undermined that control for over two decades. The popular
backlash from Microsoft's own unique form of control --- over the
collective Wintel platform --- may finally completely sever the
puppet's strings. The trickles of vendor support that you're seeing now
is largely a survival strategy. So not only will these vendors give up
the efforts to control their customer's range of software choices,
they'll be glad they did it, considering the alternative.
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<p><em><a href="mailto:jimd@starshine.org">Jim Dennis</a></em></p>
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<center><H4>Previous "Answer Guy" Columns</H4></center>
<P>
<A HREF="../issue13/answer.html">Answer Guy #1, January 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue14/answer.html">Answer Guy #2, February 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue15/answer.html">Answer Guy #3, March 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue16/answer.html">Answer Guy #4, April 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue17/answer.html">Answer Guy #5, May 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue18/lg_answer18.html">Answer Guy #6, June 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue19/lg_answer19.html">Answer Guy #7, July 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue20/lg_answer20.html">Answer Guy #8, August 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue21/lg_answer21.html">Answer Guy #9, September 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue22/lg_answer22.html">Answer Guy #10, October 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue23/lg_answer23.html">Answer Guy #11, December 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue24/lg_answer24.html">Answer Guy #12, January 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue25/lg_answer25.html">Answer Guy #13, February 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue26/lg_answer26.html">Answer Guy #14, March 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue27/lg_answer27.html">Answer Guy #15, April 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue28/lg_answer28.html">Answer Guy #16, May 1998</A>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 29 June 1998</H5>
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