Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:01:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jochen Toppe <> | Subject | Re: Idea for fixing newbie questions! |
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Chris Ricker wrote:
> Okay, > > Everyone's getting tired of people asking questions like "why does top > give a floating point error ?" and other such questions. It has been > suggested that a file be added to the 1.3.x distribution with a list of > what utils newbies to the series need to have to run them. > > I think such a file would be a useful idea, so I'll try to compile one > and send it to Linus. > > Here's a list of what I know is definitely needed: > > procps-0.99a (available at tsx-11) > modules-1.3.57 (or later? 57 is available at the same location as the kernel) > ppp-2.2.0e (or later? Linus posted a suggestion that maybe the latest is > contributing to the weird slowdowns some have encountered. I haven't a > clue about where this would be found, as I don't need ppp.) > > Are there any others I've missed? > Yes, sysvinit 2.60 (unless you like the "Can't read initrequest" errors ;-) ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/sysvinit-2.60.tar.gz
Oh, just a by the way - about ppp. I've been running the same pppd for a while (2.2 patchlevel 0) and I have neither found an increase nor a decrease in speed!?!?
Cheers,
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