Moving Files

1998-04-12 Thread John Herzog
Hello, I want to split my partition on my hard drive (fat 32) with fips and I'm having trouble moving files from near the end of my hard drive using the defrag program that came with windoze 95. Many of the files are marked with data that will not be moved. How do I get these files to move

PGCC package?

1998-04-12 Thread Robert Wilderspin
Has anyone had any experience of using PGCC with Debian? I'm surprised that there isn't a package available for it, or even any trying to create one (according to the prospective packages list). Has there been any discussion as to whether pre-compiled Pentium binaries should be made optionally av

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> Hi, >> >> I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not >> overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install >> hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it >> doesn't write on them anymore. Or how do you cope wi

Re: RAID installation in hamm?

1998-04-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> >> [...] >> > >> I suposse that I'll have to setup manually (including installation of >> > >> raidtools) the raid partitions in the installation shell (console >> > >> Alt+F2), >> > >> isn't it? >> > >> >

Re: Really have to use .deb to install anything?

1998-04-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> TD> Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program >> TD> you want to install? >> >> Only if you want to be able to deal with the program using the Debian >> package manager later. >> >> TD> Thing is that I accidently downloaded the

Re: Emacs

1998-04-12 Thread Alex Romosan
i use font-lock to accomplish this. look at /usr/share/emacs/20.2/lisp/font-lock.el for more info on how to enable it. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passi

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, kernel-source- may not supply the same headers as kernel-headers-, especially on non intel hardware. There fore the dependency in libc6-dev is correct. manoj -- It is either through the influence of narcotic potions, of which all primitive peoples and races speak in hymns

Re: Hi

1998-04-12 Thread shaul
> I don't think, that any pgm (except the Intel MMX benchmark) makes much use > of MMX. And if you want a powerfull CPU with a good price, buy the AMD K6 As much as I can remember, there is a math library that is being developed (and is among the packages that are mentioned as one that Debian mig

Re: Routing with Debian?

1998-04-12 Thread Alain Toussaint
> The router finds the hardware (or MAC) address by broadcasting a request > to the network. It basicly asks "Does anybody here know what the MAC > address is for the interface ." and someone will respond with > it. > > As for your routing problem ... do you have a "real" IP address assigned > to

Re: Debian Download

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
> I am afraid the process is not progressing very smoothly. I assume I am > supposed to use the "dselect" routine. Although I had troubles with it I > finally got the program to select only one file. (In this case, the "ed" > file) dselect is an interface for dpkg. The latter does the real job

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
> Oh, well then just --force depends! It's NOT the solution, just a treatment of the sympthom. I'm asking whether there is a real reason or is it a mistake. > But you are better off staying well clear of 2.0.33 unless there is some > hardware support there that you absolutely HAVE to have. 2.0.33

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> We have to take some responsibility for the world we live in. It Orn> may not be to our liking, but we live in it... Frankly, most of us have sense enough not to tell people how their vbotes are wrong. It is one thing to campa

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> Voting for Linus Tolrvalds is not a good idea. The man is not a Orn> Titan, in any sense of the word... even less than Bill Gates. Says who? Who died and made you god? Orn> Making such silly votes, is sure to disrubt the balan

Routing with Debian?

1998-04-12 Thread Jonas Bofjall
Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's): on laptop: route add plip0 route add default gw on workstation: route add plip0 arp -s I c

Debian Download

1998-04-12 Thread Dennis Dixon
I have recently installed the Debian Linux O/S on my computer and now need to install certain packages to give the system some functionality. I am afraid the process is not progressing very smoothly. I assume I am supposed to use the "dselect" routine. Although I had troubles with it I finally g

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
> I have noticed some problems with some of the kernel packages not setting > the symlinks properly in /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm and > /usr/include/scsi. I have not reported it because I have not been exactly On my system, asm and linux are perfect and scsi is not a symlink. > > Does an

Re: CPU Types (Was: Re: Hi)

1998-04-12 Thread dg
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > Tristan Day wrote: > > > > I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM [snip] > > Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade much > > at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my problem. > > Like

Re: Help: PCBIT on Linux

1998-04-12 Thread Nuno Carvalho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - What's the problem? Connecting? or getting Linux to recognise your card? I can't get Linux to load firmware of my ISDN card. > - What's the exact card number & version? Is it ISA, PCI, or something else? The number & version I only know if I open my PC, I thin

RE: Reverse DNS lookup at telnet

1998-04-12 Thread Scott D. Killen
How do I do that without losing forwarded DNS requests? When I stop and start named to adjust the tables, any current DNS request from client machines will be lost... Another problem -- I fixed it so I was primary for the network and lookups on the host no longer cause a connection to the Int

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact.html

1998-04-12 Thread David R Baker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings, I recently re-installed debian, and I want to install chos, yet > it is not in the package listing, but is in the non-free/binary-i386 > directory, I am wondering why that would happen, and how many other > packages are not shown? Thanks > > [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [pwink@ibm.net: telnet does not allow login as "root"]

1998-04-12 Thread Scott D. Killen
This is to keep your system secure. To make it possible to log in as root, add ttyp1 - ttyp8 to /etc/securetty Scott D. Killen Scott Killen Software http://www.skillsoft.com -Original Message- From: Martin Schulze [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 12, 1998 1:53 PM To:

kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
Does anyone know why libc6-dev doesn't accept kernel-headers-2.0.33? It depends on kernel-headers, but it only works with the 2.0.32 one. jabberwock ###By lack of understanding they remained sane. (George Orwell)### -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: [pwink@ibm.net: telnet does not allow login as "root"]

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
> The server is running Debian 1.3.1. I am not able to telnet into the > server and login as "root", I can however telnet and login as other > users. I can also ftp and login as root. It is because of security reasons, sending your root password through a network is not really safe... The solutio

Re: Reverse DNS lookup at telnet

1998-04-12 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Scott D. Killen wrote: > I run a server with Debian 1.3.1 installed. This machine is set up as an > internet gateway to a 3 bit subnet. Diald is installed for automatic > dialup internet connections. My machine runs a caching name server that > the machines on the subnet

Reverse DNS lookup at telnet

1998-04-12 Thread Scott D. Killen
I run a server with Debian 1.3.1 installed. This machine is set up as an internet gateway to a 3 bit subnet. Diald is installed for automatic dialup internet connections. My machine runs a caching name server that the machines on the subnet use as a nameserver. The problem is that when I te

Re: Making Script Run as Super User

1998-04-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:41:34PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: > > I want a script to execute as the Super User. I have tried several things > with the "s" attribute but have not been successful. Linux won't let you create suid shell scripts -- they're insecure. The "s" attribute is ignored on sh

http://www.debian.org/contact.html

1998-04-12 Thread dtopan
Greetings, I recently re-installed debian, and I want to install chos, yet it is not in the package listing, but is in the non-free/binary-i386 directory, I am wondering why that would happen, and how many other packages are not shown? Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Making Script Run as Super User

1998-04-12 Thread Butch Kemper
I want a script to execute as the Super User. I have tried several things with the "s" attribute but have not been successful. Any suggestions will be most appreciated. Thanks. Butch Kemper Butch Kemper | Free sound advice available Kemper & Associates Consulting Group

Re: [pwink@ibm.net: telnet does not allow login as "root"]

1998-04-12 Thread Carroll Kong
I believe that the /etc/securetty or something of that nature, denys, login as root. Root is supposedly never supposed to be directly accessed ever. A form of security against remote invasion of monumental proportions. (considering you can wipe out the local system or shutdown / reboot the

XFree86

1998-04-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello: I just acquired a desktop machine with Debian pre-installed. Very nice so far, but I have one annoying problem. As root, I can run the X server with no problems. So I assume that it's configurted correctly for the hardware. But ordinary users cannot run the X server. The error message tha

[pwink@ibm.net: telnet does not allow login as "root"]

1998-04-12 Thread Martin Schulze
-Forwarded message from Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- This is my first experience setting up a Debian (or UNIX) server. The server is running Debian 1.3.1. I am not able to telnet into the server and login as "root", I can however telnet and login as other users. I can also ftp and

Re: RAID installation in hamm?

1998-04-12 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: [...] > >> I suposse that I'll have to setup manually (including installation of > >> raidtools) the raid partitions in the installation shell (console Alt+F2), > >> isn't it? > > Or install normally, then create the md

Re: RAID installation in hamm?

1998-04-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> Hi everybody again! >> >> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> >> > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > >> >> > >> Hello, >> > >> >> > >> It seems to me that RAID0 (with the mdutils package?) is not possible >> > >> with >> > >> the no

Re: Debian and ISDN: Even more problems

1998-04-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Okay, I am finally able to dial my ISP via the phone lines with some >> scripts from ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/cistron/linux/isdn (isdn-init, >> isdn-up, isdn-down, they all seem to work fine), the X-windows ISDN load >> program shows my ISP's phone number and an online-o-meter is ticking next >>

Re: Trouble installing dump_0.4b4-6.deb

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 12:18:53AM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > > This is the error I get > > (Reading database ... 35660 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace dump 0.4b4-4 (using .../utils/dump_0.4b4-6.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement dump ... > dpkg: error proces

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 10:41:39AM -0600, Tamas Papp wrote: > > When I checked the current list Paul Atreides was in the middle. Isn't that > > a > > character from "Dune"? > Yes, he is. I don't think that many of the voters take seriously what > they're doing. :-) If the would, Bill Gates wouldn

Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-12 Thread Carroll Kong
Some people once told me that they saw a "xterm" window in X that had a transparent -background so you could easily see the wallpaper in the back. How is this possible? (So basically it is like me calling an xterm window and seeing my nice background and I will look like I am typing direc

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
> When I checked the current list Paul Atreides was in the middle. Isn't that a > character from "Dune"? Yes, he is. I don't think that many of the voters take seriously what they're doing. :-) jabberwock ###By lack of understanding they remained sane. (George Orwell)### -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 07:02:17PM +, George R wrote: > On 04/11/98 at 10:13 PM, Marcus Brinkmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >The Gimp is sucking memory like a vampire bat. You can easily use 100 MB > >when processing a screen size image (well, 100MB and more. You can easily > >suck all a

Re: Hi

1998-04-12 Thread Bruce Jackson
Sorry, yes I do mean slot 1. UBF for a little while :) Ossama Othman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade > > > much > > > at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my > > > problem. > > > > Like you are goi

Re: Hi

1998-04-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > > > > Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade much > > at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my problem. > > Like you are going to be able to upgrage a socket 1 motherboard. Dude > do you even know what you are talking about? You

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Scott Hanson
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 07:00:01PM -0500, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > It's as good as PhotoShop, and better than any shareware program. > > > > It is huge, sophisticated, and it does many things, but trying to > > figure how to change a black or wh

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:14:33AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not > > overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install > > hamm atm,

Re: Hi

1998-04-12 Thread Bruce Jackson
Tristan Day wrote: > > I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM > > It runs v. well in Linux but in Windows it's disappointing unless you have a > really nice graphics card (like at least 8 meg) but anyway, memory and hard > drive speed is what slows down my computer, so I'd recommend 64meg

Re: Really have to use .deb to install anything?

1998-04-12 Thread David Z. Maze
Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TD> Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program TD> you want to install? Only if you want to be able to deal with the program using the Debian package manager later. TD> Thing is that I accidently downloaded the wrong netscape (v4.2 o

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
The drive has a three year warranty. Will WD fix the drive or sent me a new one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad blocks, as long as I have warranty? If the drive is actively de

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not > overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install > hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it > doesn

how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it doesn't write on them anymore. Or how do you cope with bad blocks? (I als

Really have to use .deb to install anything?

1998-04-12 Thread Tristan Day
Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program you want to install? Thing is that I accidently downloaded the wrong netscape (v4.2 or something similar) and it was 8 megs long so it took 2 hours on my humble 14.4 Anyway, it wouldn't work because the .deb installer is for 3.01 s

Re: Hi

1998-04-12 Thread Tristan Day
I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM It runs v. well in Linux but in Windows it's disappointing unless you have a really nice graphics card (like at least 8 meg) but anyway, memory and hard drive speed is what slows down my computer, so I'd recommend 64meg and an ultra-fast-wide-scsi har

WINS server for Win95 in ppp-2.3.3-5

1998-04-12 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, since I installed ppp-2.3.3-5 my Windows 95 box that dials-in to the Linux box can't get the WINS server address set. In /etc/ppp/options I have a line that says: ms-wins x.w.y.z but after the connection is stablished the WINS server information is not passed to the dial-up client. In prev

Re: Debian and ISDN: Even more problems

1998-04-12 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: Sounds like your dns or default route is not setup properly. Make sure your default route is the NIC to your ISP and run bindconfig. Peter -Original Message- From: Atte Koivula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 7:52 AM Subject: Deb

Debian and ISDN: Even more problems

1998-04-12 Thread Atte Koivula
Okay, I am finally able to dial my ISP via the phone lines with some scripts from ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/cistron/linux/isdn (isdn-init, isdn-up, isdn-down, they all seem to work fine), the X-windows ISDN load program shows my ISP's phone number and an online-o-meter is ticking next to it, but non

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Britton: > > I am not ashamed to admit that I think Linus and the system and philosophy > he has come to represent are extremely important. Linux is more than a > great OS, it's the largest and most advanced technological achievment of a > group of volunteers in all of his

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 11-Apr-98 skrifar Marcus Brinkmann: > [snip] > I consider such voting as meaningless, unimportant and irrational. If it can > serve to push Linux forward, it has at least one good effect. > You say that you don't take this seriously, but non the less you expect to gain something by your s

Re: Help: PCBIT on Linux

1998-04-12 Thread jdassen
[removed debian-devel@lists.debian.org; user questions don't belong there] On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > I'm trying to install my PCBIT ISDN on Linux without many success ! Could > someone help me ? I already tried the apropriate mailing lists but > without an

Re: RAID installation in hamm?

1998-04-12 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi everybody again! On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> It seems to me that RAID0 (with the mdutils package?) is not possible with > >> the normal procedure with hamm. > >> > >> Any expe

Help: PCBIT on Linux

1998-04-12 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi all, I'm desesperate !! :((( I'm trying to install my PCBIT ISDN on Linux without many success ! Could someone help me ? I already tried the apropriate mailing lists but without answer! :((( Maybe it could be dificult to you cause my ISDN card is made in Port

Re: (off-topic) Blender? [Was: cheap graphics station]

1998-04-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> > Could you tell me, what sort of program "Blender" is and where to get it? > > Blender is a high quality 3d graphics program that alows you to model > scenes and render them as well as creating animations. you can find out > more about it at www.neogeo.no (IIRC) the linux version is'nt out yet

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Art Lemasters
Gee, folks...could've left the URL of the voting page intact, at least. Here it is again. The category concerns the "greatest builders and most influential business leaders." I'm sure that LINUX will be such an influence--and very soon. We also tend to give credit for such accomplishments t

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-12 Thread Alain Toussaint
> For answering this question we need to know what mail agent that you > are using and how it is configured. Are you configured to use your > ISP's SMTP server and their POP3 server correctly. smail and fetchmail,also,it's my ISP sysadmin itself who configured my .fetchamailrc file. > Also I'm

hamm installation

1998-04-12 Thread Erik Nelson
hi all in debian land. i'd like to burn a hamm installation CD similar to the "official" debian 1.3 cds, but i don't want to actually put in everything needed for a full cd - i just want what i know i need (binary-i386, disks-i386, and some kernal source). i'd like to know what i need to do to make

Re: mod_perl

1998-04-12 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:17:46PM -0500, Erv Walter wrote: : Is mod_perl included with the hamm version of apache? If not is there : a .deb package I can get that will add this functionality? If not, : what do I have to do to add this functionality myself. If I understand : the changlog correct

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Marc Lepage
> >Total Percent > >richard rogers 636494 7.42 > >henry ford 555916 6.48 > >douglas macarthur 474770 5.53 > >bill gates 468605 5.46 <--- We can beat this poor rating! > >howard hughes 351237 4.09 > >vehbi koc 350473 4.08 > >steve jobs 336439 3.92 > >mura

MMX in Linux? (was Re: Hi)

1998-04-12 Thread Ossama Othman
> As far as I know, gcc (and hence most linux programs) don't use the > added instructions that MMX provides. Actually that may not be entirely true, it seems that binutils now supports some MMX opcodes. I'm not at all familiar with the inner workings of gas and the rest of the utilities so I

mod_perl

1998-04-12 Thread Erv Walter
Is mod_perl included with the hamm version of apache? If not is there a .deb package I can get that will add this functionality? If not, what do I have to do to add this functionality myself. If I understand the changlog correctly, it looks like mod_perl was removed from apache for some reason.

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 07:00:01PM -0500, Art Lemasters wrote: > > It's as good as PhotoShop, and better than any shareware program. > > It is huge, sophisticated, and it does many things, but trying to > figure how to change a black or white background into a transparent one > will be like w

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-12 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Alain Toussaint wrote: > > > no,i dont think this would be useable at such low res,i'm allready in the > process of buying a new computer (in fact,i'll build it from piece) and > maybe this one will serve only for text usage,another thing,does anyone > here know if netscape 3.01 would work at 16

Debia 2 what does give us?

1998-04-12 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
Hi, i was just in j&r in new york city and you should see all of the linux cd sets, i see that they even haven have debian book sets. i wanted to ask if anyone here has used applixware or smartware on their linux based systems? how do you make the software compatible with debian- seems that the

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Petra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > Hi, > > I saw the linux journals write-up on gimp, now i would like to ask the > question, how does it stack up against commercial or established shareware > products? Gimp can do anything. It stacks up to photosho

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Britton
> >Total Percent > >richard rogers 636494 7.42 > >henry ford 555916 6.48 > >douglas macarthur 474770 5.53 > >bill gates 468605 5.46 <--- We can beat this poor rating! > >howard hughes 351237 4.09 > >vehbi koc 350473 4.08 > >steve jobs 336439 3.92 > >mur

Re: (off-topic) Blender? [Was: cheap graphics station]

1998-04-12 Thread Petra
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: > > > The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing > > extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at > > anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blen