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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > BL2 with Xvesa would take a lot of fiddling to get Abiword
> > to work,
>
> Why?  AbiWord works fine on BL2.  Your choice of Xserver
> shouldn't change that.

I thought you said it will not work with Xvesa.  I never installed your 
VGA X setup, just the minimal pieces of xinb xlib xpm etc needed for Xvesa 
to work.  I am not going to bother with the S3 or SVGA servers.
This was something about Abiword fonts.  Or did you compile Abiword 
differently for BL2?  I did not try it because the Bl3 version was a bit 
smaller.

> > Can BL3 be used with both libc5 AND the libc6-so from SW8.1?
>
> I haven't tried installing glibc2 on BL3, but I did try it
> on BL1 and it seemed to work fine.

Lovely, do I just install the so package or what?  I don't want to 
overwrite the libc5 files.

> > We would have a choice of using BL3 or BL2 kernel, the
> > latter having a few more features (I forget what)
>
> The BL2 kernel has CDrom and NFS capabilities built in.
> Those are not in the BL3 kernel (although it does have
> built-in loop capability, which the BL2 kernel lacks).
> There are some other differences too.

I would not know what to do with NFS capabilities and I can simply use 
CD-ROM modules on the rare occasions that I load software.  BL3 kernel 
boots a bit faster, I think.

> > > If you really want to run xdm, I suggest you
> > > install BL2 instead of BL3 (it will probably be
> > > easier in the long run).
> >
> > If we wanted 'easier' there are linuxes that make
> > all the decisions for you.
>
> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough.  I try again:
> --------------------------------------------
> If you want to run xdm, use BL2.  BL3 is not
> really suitable for that.
> --------------------------------------------
> Happy?

I am usually happy.

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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