Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:23:19 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@wcug.wwu.edu> To: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [svlug] *sigh* (fwd) Message-ID: <19990506102319.A27275@wcug.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990506095608.21810B@crl.crl.com>; from Ben Manes on Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:57:35AM -0700 References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990506095608.21810B@crl.crl.com>
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On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:57:35AM -0700, Ben Manes wrote: > > might interest a few of you... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:17:10 -0700 > From: Derek J. Balling <dredd@megacity.org> > To: svlug@svlug.org > Subject: [svlug] *sigh* <snip> > > Issue #2: Choose your preference -- SMP or the ability to USE the box > > The person who did the install (before I got there) installed Red Hat > 5.2... which is all well and good except that RH5.2 out of the box doesn't > know squat about SMP. Considering all the "advances" between 5.2 and 6.0, > silly me says "well, just upgrade to 6.0 for the SMP support and everything > will be great." > > So now, after all is said and done, I have a choice -- reinstall 5.2 and > not have SMP support, or have SMP support and a complete inability to > compile basic simple tools like "ssh". > > No, I cannot just use the RPM for ssh. (is there even one? certainly not > from RH) This guy does know you can easily download the linux kernel source from kernel.org and recompile it with SMP support right? I can't imagine why he thought they would have to upgrade to RedHat 6.0 for SMP support. 2.2 kernels work fine in RedHat 5.2 And what about going to www.replay.com for ssh RPMS? -- --Travis Take a look at: www.OpenBSD.org www.NetBSD.org www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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