Microsoft To Publish Linux

[Brian Densmore]

Sorry for the confusion.

   4 boxes currently installed and running. A bunch of cd's and floppies.

Box 1: dual boot - Linux RedHat 6.1 with a recompiled 2.2.16 kernel;
                              Windows 98  running Fat 32 (sorry forgot, hasn't
been booted in better than 4 months, but is has a lot of my graphics files on
it, so I mount it in Linux) According to box 2 it is using an NTFS file format
(could be the way Samba is reporting it)  

Box 2: Windows NT  - (has been a dual boot in the past)

Box 3: Free BSD 3.4

Box 4: Mandrake 5.3 - soon to get 2.2.16 kernel

All others have been installed at one time or another, except for the Novell
Netware 5.

I'm still waiting for Unisys to come out with Mapper for Linux so I can wipe
the Windows 98 off and dial into work from Linux (now I generally use my wife's
NT instead of rebooting my box). My wife won't let me use the other 5 machines
because there's no place to put them, anybody got a good rack? Maybe if I cut a
hole in this wall...

well, hope that clears this up a little. I'm kind of a newbie in Linux, because
I don't get enough time to play with the systems. Still having trouble with the
Red Hat recompiled (the module file links were all messed up, and I can't find
the stupid soundblaster module, but the CD plays! Any clues anyone?)

Brian

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I too was a little confused by his accounting methods.  Did he mean that he
> had tried fifteen Linux Distros?  Did he have Dual or triple boot on any of
> the machines?  Inquiring minds want to know.
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Webb [mailto:brwebb at transmuto.com]
> Sent: None
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: [kclug - Microsoft To Publish Linux]
> 
> 
> I generally try to *not* be this guy, but I can't resist this one.
> 
> >(current OS stock, 6 MS OS'es; 15 Linux's, 
> >1 Free BSD - 1 Machine with NT for
> >wifey and work, 2 Linux, 1 FreeBSD) 
> 
> So are these installed machines? If so, are there really 2 FreeBSD machines
> or is it one?  Is it 15 or 17 Linux boxes? Is it 6 or 7 MS machines?  I'm
> guessing you meant that you meant that you have liscences for 6 MS OS's, 15
> Linux's (oh wait, that doesn't make sense... are these different
> distrobutions?) and one for FreeBSD.  I would have to guess that you meant
> that you have installed NT on one machine, Linux on two machines, and
> FreeBSD on one machine.
> 
> >Interseting side note: this weekend needed to 
> >do a powerpoint for work. So I
> >e-mailed the skeleton from work 
> >(NT); saved it in Linux to a Win98 NTFS
> 
> Where is this copy of Win98 installed?  Oh, wait, you can't be right here
> because Win98 doesn't support NTFS. 
> 
> Sorry, I generally try not to be like that, but I just couldn't let this
> slide.  
> 
> As an aside, and I hope that Forrest reads this, IBM is (or has?) released a
> Notes Client for Linux, under the LGPL no less.  I don't have a link handy,
> but It's part of a /. story about IBM's new WDE (that's weblication
> development environment).
> 
> Cheers
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> "They that can give up liberty in order to obtain a little
> temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>                   -Benjamin Franklin
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> Benjamin R. Webb
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