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Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:58:23 GMT
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote:
> 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.
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.
> 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.
Did it freak out and still let you continue? That would be a vast
improvement from the earlier versions I looked at, which tended to
completely die (w/ 14 pages of python traceback -- real user-friendly, guys)
at any little excuse.
I'm hoping that in a few months, the stability is such that it'll be a good
base for our next release -- the 6.0 code is ugly enough that I want to move
on as soon as possible. If it's not, I may look at using Mandrake's
installer instead.
I'm in the process of learning python; it seems like a nice enough language.
If only the python zealots weren't so anti-perl -- they're being terribly
unfair. It's not like python is to perl and unix is to msdos/win, but to
hear people talk, you'd think so. (It's more like python is to perl as
indonesian is to english....)
> > > 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?
>
> 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... :)
Ah. I've only been at BU for a few years....
[1] and wanted to use the package manager [2], and didn't want to make your own
packages.
[2] which you probably should. :)
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Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
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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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| (...) [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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