Re: a question about BSWare

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Even though Redhat 5.2 claims to be kernel 2.2 "ready",
> > that is not 100% accurate (IMO).
> 
> Agreed.  Some of the older utilities will probably not work with 2.2,
> but AFAIK all that's required is updating to the latest version of the
> utilities.

Right.  I'm just trying to keep BSware an exact copy of Redhat.
I'm not interested in modifying it and creating my own distribution.
(that way if something doesn't work, I can blame Redhat! :)

> The printing bug you mentioned actually (IMO) fixes a misconfiguration
> in the earlier kernels--that of the printing routines using /dev/lp1
> instead of /dev/lp0, if you and I are referring to the same thing.

That was one of the problems I had with printing.

The other thing was just confusion on my part on how to configure
the 2.2 kernel to print.  There are now THREE options that need to
be turned on in the kernel to enable a parallel port printer.
And if you compile them all as modules, one of them will not load
automatically with kerneld.  It took me some time to get it all
figured out, and I ended up compiling the kernel a few times
until I got it working.

Now if I could get "smbmount" to work, I could upgrade my work box.
(I use my a cron job on my Linux box to back up a NT server)
I read on Dejanews that it only takes a recompile, but I haven't 
had a chance to try it yet.

And for people who use firewalling and/or IP-Masquerading, I will 
include an "ipchains" RPM in the /BSware directory on the CD and 
a wrapper program that will convert "ipfwadm" syntax to "ipchains".

> Far more serious, I thought, was a problem that 2.2 had with Netscape.
> The kernel gurus patched the 2.2 release so Netscape works, but I
> understand the problem is in Netscape, not Linux.  But one can't release
> updates that crash one's "killer app."

I haven't heard of that one.  In fact I never had a problem with 
Netscape in the 2.2 preX releases.  I'm using Netscape 4.5 right 
now with kernel 2.2.0 and Netscape's email via IMAP.

> If you have a chance, anybody who installs (and likes) kernel 2.2
> should definitely send their congratulations to Linus via the
> linus-kernel mailing list.  This release represents a lot of work by a
> lot of people.  If you're really ecstatic about the new kernel, I can
> let you know where to send the beer.

Can you post the kernel mailing list address?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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