Re: Using Linux to get Apples surfing?

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"brad" (mrbrad@ll.net) writes:
> ok...i've re-read the below...i don't program...i basically understand that
> the reply below was in the lang of english..but that is about all  i'm sure
> of
> 
> basically....i was hoping that a) a hd would appear with a linux version 1.2
> kernal more or less that had a o/s that i could run a package called
> worldgroup for unix on....
> 
The 1.2 Kernel is old, I'm running 2.4.22  If you really think your
solution is to run an old version of Linux, then there are other issues such
as security and it's all pretty old.  Any distribution with that old a kernel
is going to be much limited compared to today's distributions.

I don't think the kernel is your problem.  What you seem to be saying is
that the BBS package doesn't run, but I lost track at that point.  If it
needs an old kernel, likely it's not because of the kernel, but because it
uses old libraries that come with the distribution that comes with that
kernel.  Of course, if you are merely running such an old distribution because
you have it, that might mean that the BBS software is more recent, and the
distribution is missing a more recent library.

If the distribution is missing a library, then one can add it in.  But the
issue is that some of a distribution is like a house of cards, in that all
the parts are related.  If you need a missing library, you need a missing
library that works with the rest of the distribution.

Or, if you've got the source, compiling that under a more recent distribution
may provide okay operation, unless again a missing library.

  Michael