I don't know, but it seems to be a problem with their application - Phorum - that's incompatible with Lynx or just misconfigured. Trying to reply to a post at the forum I get the following:
Warning: File upload error - no name component in content disposition in/var/www/slackware/forum/post.php3 on line 0 Warning: Cannot add more header information - the header was already sent (header information may be added only before any output is generated from the script - check for text or whitespace outside PHP tags, or calls to functions that output text) in/var/www/slackware/forum/post.php3 on line 13
I wrote to the webmaster some days ago but got no reply. Note that I always get this error. Got today, one week ago, and trying at different hours. Using Lynx 2.8.4dev.4. 2.8.3rel.1 gives the same error.
Most Linux distributions include Linux-PAM. Why Slackware refuses to use it in place of... shadow?
Re:Red Hat Linux 6.2 Release notes
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Glibc? I just installed the one from 5.2 1 year ago because they're binary compatible, but didn't tried 2.1.x yet. I made a full install of 5.1, removed what I don't use, and started upgrading what I use (or is worth), but from the sources, and rarely using RPM (only for their official updates). Well, now I can say that it's not a RedHat, but a hybrid distro. But the only RPM widely used and old here is Glibc. And 2.0.7 isn't bad. BTW, yes, there's a sort of glibc-HOWTO somewhere with installation instructions (but for the sources). With some money to buy hardware and a good link you can start your own distro (or make a HatRed 1.0).
Re:Some packages are really outdated
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Thanks for the answers. Just two points:
lynx-2.8.3-2 means it's the second version of a Red Hat Linux RPM containing a 2.8.3 release of lynx.
I follow Lynx's development, and frankly, it should be 2.8.3dev.x-1or2 or whatever RedHat is using as their Lynx. It's hard to know which version you're shipping. If RedHat now uses the right versioning scheme for util-linux (I remember 2.9 series not including a-z), the same may apply to Lynx.
Diskspace issue; some of the packages you mentioned are in powertools
As a soccer supporter (grin), Powertools is the second division. When something is better and popular (although for me popularity comes later) than any other application included in RedHat, it should replace it. At least IceWM could be in RedHat since 6.0 (not in Powertools), but I see Sawmill shipping with 6.2. IceWM is fast, stable (I logged out after 6 months), and looks good. My POV about this great Window Manager. Well, I also consider Pavuk better than GNU wget (and it's actively developed)... Yes, it's very easy to compile yourself from a tarball or make an RPM, so it shouldn't be a big problem for the end user. But it's a "prize" for the author when you include their work in the distribution.
Some packages are really outdated
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Maybe someone can answer why some packages are really outdated. Examples? readline 2.2.1. We're at 4.1, and I remember someone from RedHat saying at a list that 4.0 wasn't included because it isn't binary compatible with 2.2.1. But it was before a beta for 6.0. slang 1.2.2. We're at 1.4.0, another major release. No need to mention tcl/tk 8.0.5. We're at 8.3.0. OK, they'll be all in 7.0. Now think about including IceWM, Pavuk, Qps, Kim, among others useful applications. The svgalib graphics library is now depracated and DOSEMU moved to Powertools. I wonder why. And their versioning scheme isn't accurate. As an example, lynx-2.8.3-2 means what? The final 2.8.3 wasn't released. We're still at 2.8.3dev22. IMHO unfortunately RedHat actually is focusing on newbies and including too much useless (I said popular?) applications. I may consider switching to Slackware in my next installation. But it's still a great Linux distribution.
Red Hat Linux 6.2 Release notes
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There's a release notes here. Well, I'm happy with RedHat 5.1 Manhattan. No need to upgrade.
Excuse-me, but what's the problem? You only have to identify yourself, but can continue using free webhostings if they start demanding your true identity. It's the only way to make sure that who's responsible for the contents is you and not the webhosting, that only provides a service, commonly used by idiots that want to host anything.
Links? links-x.y.z. links-current is like CVS, may be unstable. Again, Links is a decent text based browser, but authentication support should be included ASAP. A way to interrupt a connection (like Lynx's z) may help too, especially when you have a poor modem and just want to load the top of a page with 200kb.
You should be able to get Lynx to compile with SSL support without major problems. The patch isn't maintained for ALL (development, pre, and release) versions, but it works fine. Yes, I'm just waiting to see it incorporated in the sources, but there are some american stupid laws, you know.
Moreover a lot of options like proxies can be set through menus, without leaving the browser.
If you're talking about Lynx, try LYNXCFG://reload/ . You should be able to reload almost all settings without leaving the browser. Don't forget that w3m also have SSL support like Lynx, but not as a patch. You don't need to tweak a patch to get it to compile with a new version.
Well, I really love Lynx. It's a complete browser, just lacking some not so trivial features (frames, tables, javascript...). I don't still see Links as a replacement for it. It doesn't have basic authentication and good cookies support, a way to interrupt transfers, among others features present in Lynx. The latest w3m refuses to compile here, so I'm waiting to see what changed since my last try (4 months ago?). I'm not using graphical browsers (Netscape for Linux is really a piece of crap), and Mozilla isn't suited for me. I'm also against using any browser that's not OpenSource.
I have to agree here. I started a site (could be a company, why not?) with a "friend" but we never signed any papers. We decided by common agreement that he would have 70% of the profit deriving from the site, and I 30%. He is the owner of the domain, the site works on the server he hired, so we can say that everything is his. What happened? I was banished because he started thinking that money comes first. Read the rest at my site. It is unfortunately a bad story. Take care!
RedHat needs a good WindowManager like icewm (yes, it's easy to get it to compile). Rasterman made a fucked Image Viewer (Electric Eyes, never finished), Imlib (this is growing, but is SLOW) and this piece of code named E. It's a bad WindowManager, ugly and very unstable. Good luck RedHat. We don't need this guy. Rasterman working for VAresearch. HAHAHA.
I had to get a new binutils (binary from ftp.vareserch.com) and to use gcc 2.7.2.3 to compile this patched kernel since my 2.2.9 don't booted with egcs/binutils compiled by me (I was using 2.2.4). The Linux Kernel seems to be very dependent on these devel tools. Maybe I just have a little broken egcs? I compile all my stuff with this and never had a problem. Now I just want a way to run a new kernel without the need to reboot (for uptime purposes). For you interested, the problem was that I just got the Uncompressing....... line and after this it returned to the lilo prompt.
This guy made a WindowManager only for your interest. It's very slow, needs a lot of ram and isn't very stable. I hope that RedHat will include a nice one like icewm in 6.1. Rasterman is a good coder, but he don't have the right to shit on RedHat. Now, go to work to Debian for free! You don't like RedHat, they're mading a Windows like distro? oh.
icewm had some problems with i18n in the latest versions (compiling). Why not icewm 1.0? It's very stable but not perfect (nothing is). And now that Gnome 1.0 is out...
icewm (the most stable wm out there) is the best wm to run with Gnome. I can't wait until Marko Macek release a new version. But don't use gnome-session if you don't want your X fucked up sometimes. panel is great.
So, i just installed Gnome 1.0.1 from CVS. I will wait a mounth or more until i compile this stuff again. But i need to know why they removed the Gnome 1.0 "pre" from the main ftp site. It was a joke??? And i think it's not very stable to release it 1.0 (i'm getting various GTK-CRITICAL...). KDE or Gnome? Use both.
I had the same problem using the 2.2.1 (uptime of 25 days). I ran a ps and +-15mb of my ram was eated by something. Today i rebooted and actually i'm using 20mb running X with the same apps when it used +- 38mb. I think that with an uptime of 25 days 27mb is normal, but not 38mb. It's a RedHat 5.1 with all the updates and the Changes required compiled all from scratch with gcc 2.7.2.3. I have 128mb of ram + 128 of swap.
I rebooted my Linux box 2 times since i have upgraded to the 2.2.x series (2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.2.1 to 2.2.2) but my root partition can't be unmounted. The log: Shutting down system loggers: syslogd klogd/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K70syslog: kill : (119) - no such pid This is very strange. I'm running syslogd and i didn't killed it. But it's not the major problem: Unmounting file systems umount: / : device is busy mount: / is busy Remounting remaining filesystems (if any) readonly mount: / is busy The system is halted - System halted... I don't want this device busy every time i have to reboot.
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Warning: File upload error - no name component in content disposition in /var/www/slackware/forum/post.php3 on line 0 Warning: Cannot add more header information - the header was already sent (header information may be added only before any output is generated from the script - check for text or whitespace outside PHP tags, or calls to functions that output text) in /var/www/slackware/forum/post.php3 on line 13
I wrote to the webmaster some days ago but got no reply. Note that I always get this error. Got today, one week ago, and trying at different hours. Using Lynx 2.8.4dev.4. 2.8.3rel.1 gives the same error.Go read the Slackware devel forums and post if you want new packages
Yes, but they should fix the forums to allow posts via browsers without javascript support. Using Lynx I get a php error.hahaha rde or pmci?
Most Linux distributions include Linux-PAM. Why Slackware refuses to use it in place of... shadow?
Glibc? I just installed the one from 5.2 1 year ago because they're binary compatible, but didn't tried 2.1.x yet. I made a full install of 5.1, removed what I don't use, and started upgrading what I use (or is worth), but from the sources, and rarely using RPM (only for their official updates). Well, now I can say that it's not a RedHat, but a hybrid distro. But the only RPM widely used and old here is Glibc. And 2.0.7 isn't bad. BTW, yes, there's a sort of glibc-HOWTO somewhere with installation instructions (but for the sources). With some money to buy hardware and a good link you can start your own distro (or make a HatRed 1.0).
Thanks for the answers. Just two points:
lynx-2.8.3-2 means it's the second version of a Red Hat Linux RPM containing a 2.8.3 release of lynx.I follow Lynx's development, and frankly, it should be 2.8.3dev.x-1or2 or whatever RedHat is using as their Lynx. It's hard to know which version you're shipping. If RedHat now uses the right versioning scheme for util-linux (I remember 2.9 series not including a-z), the same may apply to Lynx.
Diskspace issue; some of the packages you mentioned are in powertoolsAs a soccer supporter (grin), Powertools is the second division. When something is better and popular (although for me popularity comes later) than any other application included in RedHat, it should replace it. At least IceWM could be in RedHat since 6.0 (not in Powertools), but I see Sawmill shipping with 6.2. IceWM is fast, stable (I logged out after 6 months), and looks good. My POV about this great Window Manager. Well, I also consider Pavuk better than GNU wget (and it's actively developed)... Yes, it's very easy to compile yourself from a tarball or make an RPM, so it shouldn't be a big problem for the end user. But it's a "prize" for the author when you include their work in the distribution.
Maybe someone can answer why some packages are really outdated. Examples? readline 2.2.1. We're at 4.1, and I remember someone from RedHat saying at a list that 4.0 wasn't included because it isn't binary compatible with 2.2.1. But it was before a beta for 6.0. slang 1.2.2. We're at 1.4.0, another major release. No need to mention tcl/tk 8.0.5. We're at 8.3.0. OK, they'll be all in 7.0. Now think about including IceWM, Pavuk, Qps, Kim, among others useful applications. The svgalib graphics library is now depracated and DOSEMU moved to Powertools. I wonder why. And their versioning scheme isn't accurate. As an example, lynx-2.8.3-2 means what? The final 2.8.3 wasn't released. We're still at 2.8.3dev22. IMHO unfortunately RedHat actually is focusing on newbies and including too much useless (I said popular?) applications. I may consider switching to Slackware in my next installation. But it's still a great Linux distribution.
There's a release notes here. Well, I'm happy with RedHat 5.1 Manhattan. No need to upgrade.
Excuse-me, but what's the problem? You only have to identify yourself, but can continue using free webhostings if they start demanding your true identity. It's the only way to make sure that who's responsible for the contents is you and not the webhosting, that only provides a service, commonly used by idiots that want to host anything.
Links? links-x.y.z. links-current is like CVS, may be unstable. Again, Links is a decent text based browser, but authentication support should be included ASAP. A way to interrupt a connection (like Lynx's z) may help too, especially when you have a poor modem and just want to load the top of a page with 200kb.
You should be able to get Lynx to compile with SSL support without major problems. The patch isn't maintained for ALL (development, pre, and release) versions, but it works fine. Yes, I'm just waiting to see it incorporated in the sources, but there are some american stupid laws, you know.
If you're talking about Lynx, try LYNXCFG://reload/ . You should be able to reload almost all settings without leaving the browser. Don't forget that w3m also have SSL support like Lynx, but not as a patch. You don't need to tweak a patch to get it to compile with a new version.
Well, I really love Lynx. It's a complete browser, just lacking some not so trivial features (frames, tables, javascript...). I don't still see Links as a replacement for it. It doesn't have basic authentication and good cookies support, a way to interrupt transfers, among others features present in Lynx. The latest w3m refuses to compile here, so I'm waiting to see what changed since my last try (4 months ago?). I'm not using graphical browsers (Netscape for Linux is really a piece of crap), and Mozilla isn't suited for me. I'm also against using any browser that's not OpenSource.
I have to agree here. I started a site (could be a company, why not?) with a "friend" but we never signed any papers. We decided by common agreement that he would have 70% of the profit deriving from the site, and I 30%. He is the owner of the domain, the site works on the server he hired, so we can say that everything is his. What happened? I was banished because he started thinking that money comes first. Read the rest at my site. It is unfortunately a bad story. Take care!
RedHat needs a good WindowManager like icewm (yes, it's easy to get it to compile). Rasterman made a fucked Image Viewer (Electric Eyes, never finished), Imlib (this is growing, but is SLOW) and this piece of code named E. It's a bad WindowManager, ugly and very unstable. Good luck RedHat. We don't need this guy. Rasterman working for VAresearch. HAHAHA.
I had to get a new binutils (binary from ftp.vareserch.com) and to use gcc 2.7.2.3 to compile this patched kernel since my 2.2.9 don't booted with egcs/binutils compiled by me (I was using 2.2.4). The Linux Kernel seems to be very dependent on these devel tools. Maybe I just have a little broken egcs? I compile all my stuff with this and never had a problem. Now I just want a way to run a new kernel without the need to reboot (for uptime purposes). ....... line and after this it returned to the lilo prompt.
For you interested, the problem was that I just got the Uncompressing
This guy made a WindowManager only for your interest. It's very slow, needs a lot of ram and isn't very stable. I hope that RedHat will include a nice one like icewm in 6.1. Rasterman is a good coder, but he don't have the right to shit on RedHat. Now, go to work to Debian for free! You don't like RedHat, they're mading a Windows like distro? oh.
Yes, it's a session manager. But if anything of Gnome crash, X crash. I prefer starting icewm and panel.
icewm had some problems with i18n in the latest versions (compiling). Why not icewm 1.0? It's very stable but not perfect (nothing is). And now that Gnome 1.0 is out...
icewm (the most stable wm out there) is the best wm to run with Gnome. I can't wait until Marko Macek release a new version. But don't use gnome-session if you don't want your X fucked up sometimes. panel is great.
Motif sucks, lesstif sucks but the hackers that made lesstif rocks!
So, i just installed Gnome 1.0.1 from CVS. I will wait a mounth or more until i compile this stuff again. But i need to know why they removed the Gnome 1.0 "pre" from the main ftp site. It was a joke??? And i think it's not very stable to release it 1.0 (i'm getting various GTK-CRITICAL ...). KDE or Gnome? Use both.
I had the same problem using the 2.2.1 (uptime of 25 days). I ran a ps and +-15mb of my ram was eated by something. Today i rebooted and actually i'm using 20mb running X with the same apps when it used +- 38mb. I think that with an uptime of 25 days 27mb is normal, but not 38mb. It's a RedHat 5.1 with all the updates and the Changes required compiled all from scratch with gcc 2.7.2.3. I have 128mb of ram + 128 of swap.
I rebooted my Linux box 2 times since i have upgraded to the 2.2.x series (2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.2.1 to 2.2.2) but my root partition can't be unmounted. The log: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K70syslog: kill : (119) - no such pid
Shutting down system loggers:
syslogd klogd
This is very strange. I'm running syslogd and i didn't killed it. But it's not the major problem:
Unmounting file systems
umount: / : device is busy
mount: / is busy
Remounting remaining filesystems (if any) readonly
mount: / is busy
The system is halted - System halted... I don't want this device busy every time i have to reboot.