On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:57 +0930, Tim wrote: > max bianco: > >>> What besides zero conf will do it? > > Tim: > >> In Fedora's case, it's usually called Avahi. > > Ric Moore: > > huh, I had thought ZeroConf died and blew away way back in the Caldera > > days. It was a good idea, but was cussed widely at the time. Ric > > I would have thought that Caldera lived and died before the name > "ZeroConf" got applied to link-local addresses, but I can't be sure. ZeroConf was then a beta Universal Can Opener for providing a gui to just about all network admin matters. Now, as then, if you dinked around with setting network configs to rights, by hand edits, it would blow up in some very interesting ways. Back then, hand-edits were far more the norm, so we tended to be more "excitable" (read riotous) when it resisted accommodating us. There was many a dry eye in the house, at it's demise. It was gone somewhere before the last couple of Caldera releases. I thought Wabi was about the slickest thing I've ever seen. Win3.1 ran faster on Linux much quicker than it did under DOS. Caldera did some pretty neat stuff and made some pretty good industry deals. I ran Netscape server for quite awhile, and it was easy as anything to use for a total idiot who found Apache daunting. Each install of Caldera got a licensed copy of it. Yes, you had to check the "yes" box to accept their license terms. But, you paid four times for Caldera what a boxed set of RH cost, back then. It was pretty much a "Republican" crowd there. <grins> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
