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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><A NAME="answer">
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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><a href="#tag_greetings"><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
alt="(!)" border="0">Greetings from Jim Dennis</a></p>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_SCOkeys.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> Linux and SCO Keymap --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_SCOkeys.html"><STRONG>SCO Compatible Console Keymaps?</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_chroot.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> linux kernel security --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_chroot.html"><STRONG>Breakin' Out of the
<TT>chroot()</TT> Jail</STRONG></A> adding "disabilities" to Linux
<dt><A HREF="tag_dosemu-db.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a>Dosemu and virtual terminals? --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_dosemu-db.html"><STRONG>Clipper/xBase Capacity Problems
--- DOSemu as a Solution?</STRONG></A> "I don't think so."
<dt><A HREF="tag_NTauth.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> NT Domain and Linux --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_NTauth.html"><STRONG>Linux as a "Domain Controller" for
a WinNT Domain? Not Yet!</STRONG></A>
Linux use of an NT PDC/BDC for authentication?
<dt><A HREF="tag_cdr.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> DAO software for linux? --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_cdr.html"><STRONG>"DAO" (Disk at Once) CDR?</STRONG></A> Stump Me!
<dt><A HREF="tag_3270.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>tn3270 security</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_comport.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>readdress COM port to 3 or 4</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_lilostop.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> Lilo won't boot --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_lilostop.html"><STRONG>Installed on a Secondary SCSI HD:
Lilo Stops at LI</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_emulate.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a>help on unix --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_emulate.html"><STRONG>Running Unix/Linux Under Win '9x</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_ppadrivers.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>winprinters & MTAs</STRONG></A>: Pointers and Corrections
<dt><A HREF="tag_database.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> FoxPlus for Linux? --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_database.html"><STRONG>Dreaming about xBase tools
for Linux</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_vacation.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>auto response for email ?</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_nullmodem.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>Connecting Linux to Win '95 via Null Modem</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_lockups.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> PC lockups --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_lockups.html"><STRONG>Hardware Lockups due to
Graphics Load</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_gzipC.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28"
width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"></a> gzip from C program --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_gzipC.html"><STRONG>Compression Libraries to
Link into a C Program</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_newlook.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>LOVE THE NEW LOOK!!!!</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_c500.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a>please, advice about Linux and C500 --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_c500.html"><STRONG>Linux PPC on the Umax C500 SuperMac:
Not A Good Idea</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_solprint.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></A>printing Solaris->Linux --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_solprint.html"><STRONG>Remote lpd from Solaris to Linux</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_vc1shell.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> Help Wanted --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_vc1shell.html"><STRONG>User Shell on Virtual Console 1</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_memleak.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
></a> Memory deallocation problems --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag_memleak.html"><STRONG>Linux Memory Usage vs. Leakage</STRONG></A>
<dt><A HREF="tag_tvcard.html"><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)" border="0"
><STRONG>tv cards and dual monitor</STRONG></A>
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<a name="tag_greetings"><H3>Greetings from Jim Dennis</H3></a>
<p>Well another month is upon us. This last month was particularly busy
since I was able to afford the USENIX technical conference, in New
Orleans --- the best annual gathering of fellow Unix and Linux nerds
I've ever found. If you can get your boss to send you to just one
computing technical conference in the next year --- ask for it to be
this one (or the USENIX/LISA --- Large Installation Systems
Administration which will be in December).</p>
<p>Linus was there with his wife, Tove, and their two baby daughters.
He agreed to host an "intimate little BoF" (Birds of a Feather
discussion) which turned out to have over half of the conference
attending it (much to his surprise).</p>
<p>The '97 USENIX in Anaheim had a "parallel track" for Linux. This
year had one for "Freenix" (collectively referring to FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and the GNU HURD, in addition to Linux). It's
important for us (Linux users) to recognize that Linux wasn't the
first "free" Unix kernel, and it is by no means the only one.</p>
<p>I've been trying to encourage the free *BSD users (all variants) to
come out of the woodwork and show up at their local Linux user's
group meetings. I know they'll be welcome at the Silicon Valley
LUG (<a href="http://www.svlug.org/">http://www.svlug.org</a>) and
I sincerely hope that they'll be welcome at other Linux events.
Now that we're getting enough market
share to get noticed in the press, and to have some effect on the
decisions of hardware and software vendors (particularly in the areas
that relate to documentation and NDA's) --- it would be a very bad
time for us to get embroiled in the sorts of infighting that's been
stifling the commercial Unix vendors for so long.</p>
<p>I noticed an interesting press release (forwarded to me by my wife)
regarding Microsoft's new "WISE" (Windows Interface Source Environment:
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/base/wise.htm"
>http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/base/wise.htm</a>) which basically
looks like a scheme to bolster the commercial Unix vendors up in their
battle against the free Unix clones (by providing them with <em>some
limited</em> support for running Windows '95 software). (From the looks
of it the WINE and Bochs projects may eventually be more capable).</p>
<p>Luckily these, and the other interesting user space projects that
are going to make Linux more accessible to non-technical users,
like GNOME, KDE, and GNUStep are <em>portable</em>. Linux has been a
primary development platform for many of these projects --- but
they all run under other versions of Unix.</p>
<p>So, while it may look like Linux is "taking over the world" ---
it is also opening up a world of opportunity for all of the other
Unix variants. There are now a few million users of Linux that will
feel right at home in just about any Unix on just about any hardware.</p>
<p>Perhaps that's why Sun and <a href="http://linux.sgi.com/">SGI</a> are
both supporting Linux projects.</p>
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<center><H4>Previous "Answer Guy" Columns</H4></center>
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<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><br>
<A HREF="../issue29/lg_answer29.html">Answer Guy #17, June 1998</A>
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 30 July 1998</H5>
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