Re: [HACKERS] (OT) Linux limits

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> setting the limit to infinity by users. Don't know if Mandrake is
> configured differently from RH6.1, but until I get this adjusted it
> doesn't make a reasonable development machine...

My experience has been that starting with version 6.0 Mandrake is
diverging from RedHat. Mandrake 5.3 can properly be called 'RedHat
5.2+KDE+enhancements' -- Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1, being released before
their RedHat counterparts, are not nearly as close.

I tried using Mandrake 6.0 to build RPMs, and quickly replaced it with
RedHat 6.0 -- Mandrake 6.0 used pgcc instead of egcs, for one. Caused
me all manner of grief. Mandrake 6.1 may be better in this regard, but
I am sticking with RedHat for the time being, as it is the current
baseline target of the RPM distribution. From what I understand, the
RedHat binary RPM's still work with Mandrake.

Mandrake is now a full-fledged distribution, not just another RedHat
knock-off.

I'm going to have to get my home machine into a multidevelopment mode,
with RedHat, Caldera, SuSE, and Mandrake multibooting, as each of these
RPM-based distributions is different, although Mandrake and RedHat are
more alike than SuSE and Caldera. Or, you can help me with Mandrake
issues in both the source and binary RPM's, just as I am getting
assistance from others with the Alpha patches, building/installing the
RPM's under SuSE and Caldera, and other architecture (ARM and MIPS come
to mind) issues.

Portability amongst Linux distributions is becoming nearly as big of
issue as portability amongst different Unices.

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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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