Re: Unix/Linux Box

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

Mike Pfaiffer <mike@digitalcivilization..ca> wrote in message news:<UWN0b.793127$3C2.17967848@news3.calgary.shaw.ca>...
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
> > Michael Black wrote:
> > 
> >>Maybe there's not much advantage in this.  But if you use lynx
> >>to download an Apple program, lynx will download it to a temporary
> >>file on the Linux computer, and you can then transfer it over the
> >>serial port to the Apple.  You no longer have to make a disk on
> >>the main computer, in Apple format on top of that, and move it
> >>physically to the Apple.  And except for software that apparently
> >>runs on the IIGS, this is the closest many people will get to
> >>putting their Apple II on the internet.
> > 
> > There is no need to "make a disk on the main computer" in the
> > case that Ernest described.  One simply browses and downloads
> > whatever is desired on the PC platform, then runs ADT to transfer
> > the disk images to the Apple II as needed.  Since all the images
> > ever transferred can be filed on the PC, it is trivial to make a CD-R
> > backup.
> 
>         True. It could be done this way.
> 
> > There is little or no advantage to text-based browsing on an Apple
> > connected through Linux, unless that's what floats your boat.
> 
>         I actually disagree. Here is why... *All* the software he needs on the PC is free.

This is what I'm hoping for!

> This includes firewalls, backup software, servers, printing,
> storage, spam filters, news, ftp, e-mail, gopher, IRC, and connection
> clients. Not all the software I mentioned is necessary. He could just run
> his //c as a terminal. He can also connect more machines than juct his
> //c. If he wanted to install a version of Appletalk (I understand the
> only thing it won't do is boot) it is there too. He can use a machine
> like a 386 if he choose (rather than having to go with something in the
> Pentium class).
> 
>         Besides, the internet was designed around UNIX. Windows didn't exist at
> the time. It is one less layer he has to go through.
> 
>         If he is running his //c as a terminal he can run his *NIC box without
> using a monitor on it.

That's the plan! ;-)

> 
>         As a personal opinion I find software runs faster under Linux than it
> does under Windows.
> 
>         My reccommendation is to go with something like RedHat rather than
> Mandrake (Crashes as much as Windows) or a Debian varient (more for
> developers).

RedHat is what I was thinking, but I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks, Mike!


Ralph Glatt