Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/31/10:37:01
On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, DR. Andras Solyom wrote:
> > WRONG. mc CAN put an ftp fs in a panel under slackware. I'm using
> > Slackware 3.1. Regardless of which distribution you use, you can
> > always upgrade older programs fairly easily so I don't see any
> > difference here.
> Yes you can. (but not in Slackware 3.0) Linux is changing so rapidly
> that if you want to keep up with it you must upgrade/reinstall your
> system in every second week...
Yes, I used SW3.0 too. I upgraded mc though. What you say is very
true, however I find that it is more like you must upgrade/reinstall
every DAY if you want to stay on top. :o) At least we cant complain
that our operating system and its software are never upgraded eh?
> > > > Doesn't Slackware include X too?
> > > Yes it has X. But you can use different window managers with it.
> >
> > Wrong again! The default WM with Slackware 3.0 was fvwm. If you look
> > at the utility menu on fvwm you will see the option to switch to a
> > different WM. TWM, OLWM, OLVWM, and others. As long as YOU HAVE
> > installed those other window managers, then you can run them.
>
> Oh yes, I must know about them from somewhere, find them, download them
> and install them. What can be easier...
No, those window managers are a part of slackware. They've been a
part of slackware since I started. Granted, they aren't all in the X
series of disksets, but they are in the XAP, and other slackware disk
sets. Thats all I was trying to say. I have not had to do any
special downloading. All WM's were in the "slakware" directory on my
CD. Granted, it isn't necessarily easy setting up another WM, but
they are there if you look.
> I do not want to reinstall/upgrade my OSes too frequently. And if I
> upgrade it I do prefer to get a new CD and reinstall all with all the
> new features I need. And here the distributions has different strong
> points.
I totally agree with you here. Frequent upgrading is a real pain in
the ***. Same thing with upgrading the DJGPP packages. I find that
just as soon as I'm current with DJGPP, a new RHIDE comes out 2 days
later, then a new "bash", then a new ... I'm not complaining, just
observing. You just have to come to the point where you say, "It
works now, and it works good enough for my needs so why upgrade?"
> > I'm running Linux and DOS on the same machine. It is very easy to use
> > both OS's. I use LOADLIN to switch to Linux from DOS.
> I run DOS/Win95/Linux/OS2 and NT on the same machine (with 'System
> Commander'). (Unfortunately I need them all :( ) It is really easy.
I haven't installed SC yet, but I will be sometime this week. I only
need it for DOS622, Opendos, Linux, but NT4 server is on my wishlist
(DISCLAIMER: I just want to learn NT to be prepared, not actually
use. :0)
> > Almost all of the programs that I run in DOSemu work just fine. The
> > only ones that don't work are programs that use devices that use DMA
> > such as soundcards, and other cards. Some DOS extenders don't work
> > right too but this seems to change with successive releases of DOSemu.
> >
> It is good news. Are you working with these programs on Linux or on DOS?
I'm running MSDOS 6.22 under DOSemu 0.64.3 under Linux 2.0.28. Soon
I'll be using OpenDOS too. I hope it works great under DOSemu. I
particularly hope that the multitasker works under DOSemu so that I
can multitask DOS under multitasking Linux. I guess I'm asking for
the world eh? Oh well, I'm getting it so I cant complain. :o)
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