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Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:31:46 GMT
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote:
> cool :) Heh, did you look at 6.2 yet? I installed it today, though I
> haven't noticed any major difference yet...
Oh man, have I ever looked at it. This release of BU Linux is actually based
on RH 6.2.
Major differences are:
- kerberos5 support (urg. we use kerberos4, so that's
more annoying than helpful)
- 128 bit netscape navigator by default
- includes gnupg
- telnet, finger, etc. are split into client-server packages (also, a
lot of daemons are off by default)
- many many many packages updated -- probably lots of bugfixes. Some
for security problems that RH never put out alerts for (ie dump).
Maybe less major, but of interest:
- man pages are gzipped
- xinitrc uses an xinitrc.d script dir scheme
- includes beowulf-style clustering tech (this is more of a marketing
point than actually useful to include in the distro)
- they fixed color-ls so it actually works by default
- less is configured to be able to look inside compressed files, and get
info from rpms, etc.
- some stuff from powertools now included (mesa, for example)
- xfs init script deals with running mkfontdir -- very nifty.
I don't know much about the 6.2 installer -- the network install in 6.1 and
the 6.2beta was still really flaky so I'm basing ours on the 6.0 installer.
(The 6.1/6.2 version was rewritten from scratch in python; a great idea in
theory (if you look at the mess that is the 6.0 installer source, you'll see
what I mean) but in practice, it's not as robust as the tried-and-true
(however ugly the source) version from 6.0.)
> btw, since you're at BU, have you ever heard of Three Kingdoms, or more
> commonly, 3K? ;)
Isn't that a period of Chinese history?
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) [snip a lot of differences] cool - I just installed it today, as an upgrade, so I didn't notice most of these... I upgraded the daemons myself as they came out, and wouldn't let it touch my inetd.conf, so a lot of these would be missed on me. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) Oh yeah: those major differences are RH 6.[01] -> RH 6.2. RH 6.2 -> BULinux: - includes nqc :) - uses bash version 2; none of this bash w/ optional "bash2" silliness - kerberos4 (via a pam module -- much nicer than needing every app to be made (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) How are you dealing with export issues for Kerberos, gnupg, and netscape? Do you offer bones and slimmed down netscape/gnupg encryption? Or do you just restrict access with FTP banners and the like? If you don't mind, I might like to pick your (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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