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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah -- disabling unnecessary servers is good, but not even installing them is better. Before, if you wanted the finger client [1], uou had to install the finger server, which is kinda silly. (...) Did it freak out and still let you continue? (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) bah! (dan already explained what it is)... (not that we play anymore... we'd have no time for lego, and that's just unreasonable) :) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) yah, true... but I'm bad about using rpm anyhow, I end up compiling my own stuff most of the time... I know I shouldn't, but it's a habit I'll have to un-learn... (...) no, even worse... it just stopped, no backtrace - it gave me a warning (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) yup, I installed it in /usr/local for all the dept. :) (...) bash? zsh :) (...) nod, pam is nice. (...) nog... heh, if you have to put gaim, put licq too? (unless gaim is not what I think it is...) (...) mmmm... tripwire - let's me snoop on (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Didn't I lecture you about this before? *grin* (...) Hmm; I wonder how the 6.0 installer deals with that case. (It's generally better about error conditions. (Although, one of the improvements I've made is that it auto-retries once if an ftp (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) *hide*. I am getting better though - the other day, I removed netscape from my computer, and did it with rpm -e :) (...) do you also check for space while choosing? RH has this annoying trick, when you painfully choose all the packages you (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't think zsh is 100% backwards compatible with sh, so it's not an ideal replacement. Might be reasonable to add though. (...) Yeah, gaim is what you think it is. If I get requests for licq, I'll put it in. (...) We're looking at coda. But (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right now, it's restricted by IP address to just BU campus. My understanding is that with the relaxed export restrictions, we're all good and could just have a warning banner asking people for whom it is illegal to please go away. But I'm (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) *grin* good for you. (...) Nope. That'd be too much of a change to the 6.0 installer for me to tackle right now. (The original code is _really_ crufty.) I'll look at this once I start on the next generation. (...) The python folks would (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'd like to take a close look at Python someday, but I doubt I'll end up using it if it's got the frustrations of other syntactically challenged languages. (My favorite programming languages are Perl, PostScript, and LISP/Scheme/Logo for their (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, but they also claim that checking your indentation levels is good too... :) Chris (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I can see their point on that one. Indention _is_ a logical way to keep blocks seperated, and it's easier for new users than keeping {s and }s matched up. It's important to note that it's only _relative_ indentation that is important -- you (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's like a throwback to the days of Cobol and Fortran, except, as you pointed out, it doesn't require column placement. When I script in Perl I always add my changes all the way to the left so they're easy to find, remove, etc. if things (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, in python, that's very easy, since all variables are references. But, for example, to test if 'foo' is a callable object (a function, class, method, etc...), this is the Way: if not callable(foo): sys.exit(1) As I understand it, any (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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