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Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:40:19 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
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> Oh man, have I ever looked at it. This release of BU Linux is actually based
> on RH 6.2.
[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.
Still cool.
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> 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.)
the installer didn't crash as terribly, but it did freak out when it
couldn't umount the /mnt/sysimage dirs... could still be better.
> > btw, since you're at BU, have you ever heard of Three Kingdoms, or more
> > commonly, 3K? ;)
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> Isn't that a period of Chinese history?
heheh, naw... It's an LP Mud that started there about 6 years ago... it
moved since (when BU started complaining about the load on the
network/computer...) but it's still running. Prob one of the oldest and
biggest (if not THE oldest/biggest) mud still around... :)
:)
Dan
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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? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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