Monthly Archives: May 1999

I was in a local college today, University College Cork, when I sat down at a PC and turned on the monitor to be greeted by the KDE welcome screen! Turns out they’re using Suse/KDE as a dual boot with NT. There were two girls using KDE in the front row so I couldn’t resist. I asked them how they found Linux and they said they were very impressed, that it was stable, and even easier than Windows to use!
I just wish the college I attended woke up and replaced some of their NT machines. *grrr*
More bugs and side effects fixed in Install-Sendmail. Get the latest version if you’ve had trouble with it.
I got a patch for version 4.2 but that will have to wait ’till the next version. It’s a patch to get things working on a FreeBSD system.
Download Install-Sendmail-4.3.tar.gz

Another Install-Sendmail update. Sendmail can now be configured so that local mail is always delivered, but remote mail is queued until it’s manually sent. (Handy for networks on dial up connections.)
I added history too so data is saved between runs of the script.
Download Install-Sendmail-4.2.tar.gz

Ooops, slight bug in Install-Sendmail. Now fixed! Latest version is Install-Sendmail-4.1.tar.gz

Something new for you:
Install-Webserver is a small script that will install Apache, PHP and MySQL. This is the first release, and while rough, it works well.
New version of Install-Sendmail. This version has way too many new features to list here so just download it and try it!
I wonder what’s happened to linux.scene.org. The site displays an empty directory!

A few cool sites:
3D Artists
Stating the Obvious
Ozone
Memepool
Camworld
Some links taken from an article by JonKatz on /. yesterday. I actually read a Jon Katz article..
The Ozone link above has nothing to do with this site. Just a coincidence that he’s called the same name as my demo group!

Nothing much new as far as content goes. I updated the software pages with some info on Install-Sendmail as well as sites offering free email services.
I also redesigned the site a small bit. Better? I’d like to hear what you think.
Finally, I’m going to do some work on converting TSN to PHP3 from Perl. There seems to be quite a few people interested in it..

Almost a month later I update.
A new version of Install-sendmail is written. I added virtual user/domain support although I haven’t been able to test it myself. Feedback required!
There’s also another Linux demo out. It’s called eft and I don’t have a URL at the moment, but you can get it off scene.org.
It’s a mainly 2d affair with nothing new or ground breaking 🙁
It runs in RedHat 5.2 so not sure about older distributions.