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Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Keith Wright

> From: "Steve Freitag" <stevef(a)ma.ultranet.com> > > Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also want > to check out Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ > > "Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows." Well that's in quotes, so it's just a character string, but lest somebody mistake it for an assertion... Cygwin was developed by Cygnus Support, a company that was founded (at least in part) by John Gilmore of EFF fame. It predates RedHat by about five years. The made money selling support services for GNU software (hence the name cyGNUs). In addition to Cygwin, they did some work on gcc, and hosted the guile project for a while (Guile is GNU Scheme). They were bought by RedHat shortly after the RedHat IPO had them rolling in cash. I don't mean to get too pedantic, but next someone will be telling me that Microsoft developed DOS, and I'll have to really rant. Typing http://www.cygnus.com/ just takes you to RedHat, but http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/cygnus_1999/redhat-cygnus111599.html gives RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SUNNYVALE, CA---November 15, 1999---Red Hat®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the market leader in open source solutions, and privately-held Cygnus Solutions, today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement, whereby Red Hat will acquire Cygnus in a transaction valued at $674 million based on Red Hat's Friday, November 12 closing price. About Cygnus Solutions ----- ------ --------- Cygnus Solutions, a leader in open source software and an innovating force in Internet software infrastructure, offers software development platforms based on an open source model. Cygnus development tools cover more than 125 host-target combinations for embedded microprocessors and are supported by one of the most experienced teams of engineers delivering custom-engineering services and developer support to top companies worldwide. Founded in 1989, Cygnus pioneered the commercialization of open source software. About Red Hat, Inc. ----- --- --- --- Founded in 1994, Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT) is the market leader in open source operating system (OS) software, services and information.

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] uptime celibration

by Michael Kingsbury

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:43, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > > #uptime > 1:39pm up 100 days, 34 min, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 1.05, > > > Eat that Micro$oft :) > Wish I had a way of proving it for you guys, but we had a MS SQL 7.0 server running NT 4.0 that was up for approx 2 years at my last job. Our NT admin was wary about rebooting it due to the fact he never touched it since he started working there less than two years ago and never had to administer much on it.... (Not that I like MS products much better than anything else, but there are exceptions to the rule.) -mike

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] gnome desktop menus?

by Baris Hasdemir

hi, did you try $ gmenu and # gmenu best wishes, baris On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:04:38 -0500 (EST) Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally > wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking > around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. > There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to > add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I > suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ > directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help > figure out the right way to do this. > > My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus > for my family. They are not about to use the command line. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > TIA, > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

Nov. 6, 2002

gnome desktop menus?

by Bill Mills-Curran

I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help figure out the right way to do this. My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus for my family. They are not about to use the command line. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA, Bill

Nov. 6, 2002

RE: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Steve Freitag

> My goal is to run linux with win2k as a virtual machine > for the few work related things I need. Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also want to check out Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ "Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows." It's not an x86 emulator/vmware clone, but it has a lot of the UNIX/Linux tools.

Nov. 6, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Routing problem -can I believe the ISP tech? #2

by Richard Goodman

> > >> Firewall is based on IPChains firewall from Ziegler's book "Linux >> Firewalls" 1st ed, which denies all then allows as needed. I've >> triple-checked the firewall -- the only non-comment changes made were >> all added ACCEPT statements, all cut&pasted from the Home firewall. >> There are no IP-specific denies that I added to the firewall - and I >> haven't updated rc.firewall.blocked in months. > >Sounds like you're further up on Linux firewalling than I am, actually. For >myself, I run a modified Linux Router Project disk image, and let NAT and >Portsentry take care of most of my issues. If you say it's clean, then it >must be clean. Understand though, the techs will NEVER believe this. At ALL. >If you made changes to a firewall and then you couldn't access, it's >Somebody Else's Problem, and that's their professional opinion. (I should >know, I was one. :) ) > Well, the problem was in the firewall, but it doesn't explain EVERYTHING that happened. After two hours on the phone Mon afternoon with Qwest tech support level 2, they insisted I try ping/traceroute with the firewall disabled. Pings moved through as expected ...hmmmm I'd been through the firewall code so many times I just about had it memorized, so I decided to look at the file rc.firewall.blocked which it reads, which has of a list of IPChains statements blocking IP#s (which the main firewall doesn't do). I hadn't really updated this much recently, because when someone started banging on the firewall, it was tough to know if it was a static IP or not. Anyways ... found TWO entries that were <Home IP#>/24 and <Home network>/24 ... basically the same thing. Don't remember putting THOSE in there <g> When I rebuilt the last hacked machine (EFO) I copied rc.firewall and rc.firewall.blocked from the home machine, because I couldn't read the copies I'd backed up from EFO.... so the block against the Home IP was at both ends of the link. The only mystery is why everything worked for two hours Friday night before I reloaded the EFO firewall -- because the rc.firewall.blocked file hadn't been changed in more than a week, and had already been loaded with the firewall when I first brought up the EFO server on Friday. Now if I could get any takers on finding out why none of my servers can send email to each other (but only each other) since they were upgrade from RH7.0 to RH7.3 (sendmail 8.11.6) I'll be all set. [Email to list 10/31] Dick

Nov. 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Charles R. Anderson

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:54:51PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: andystewart> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ WINE is worth looking into as well. WINE Is Not an Emulator, but a reimplementation of the Win32 ABI. http://www.winehq.org/

Nov. 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Andy Stewart

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 6:58 pm, twg3(a)attbi.com wrote: > Is anyone familiar with any open-source versions of > x86 emulation software that I can use instead of VMWare? > > It seems that the plex86 project has moved, and I can not > find out much info on status of software - ie how usable > etc.???? You might try this link also: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Nov. 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Andy Stewart

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 6:58 pm, twg3(a)attbi.com wrote: > Is anyone familiar with any open-source versions of > x86 emulation software that I can use instead of VMWare? Try this website: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86 Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Nov. 6, 2002

x86 emulation/vmare clone

by twg3＠attbi.com

Is anyone familiar with any open-source versions of x86 emulation software that I can use instead of VMWare? It seems that the plex86 project has moved, and I can not find out much info on status of software - ie how usable etc.???? My goal is to run linux with win2k as a virtual machine for the few work related things I need.

Nov. 5, 2002