Re: Re: A move from sco 3.2 to linux

["Yashpal Nagar" <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ajay,
    Try XINE a movie player, it's very cool i have ever seen.

Regards

Yash

"Ajay Kumar" <ajay_kumar19@xxxxxxxxxxx> Wrote---
Hi Raju,

Can you please tell me about 8/16 Serial port card, what is it and its 
function.

   Another thing is, in which application I can see movies (av*.dat files) 
like i using media player in winduz.

Thanks
Ajay Kumar


>From: Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] A move from sco 3.2 to linux
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:55:50  0530 (IST)
>
>Hi Yashpal,
>
>I'd go with RH 6.2, but that's because I believe the 7.0 is a piece of
>cr*p.  RH ships their kernel with iBCS included by default, so you
>shouldn't have problems with that aspect; something like modprobe iBCS
>should do the trick.
>
>I'd suggest looking for driver info in the kernel source directories.
>Try a make menuconfig in the kernel source directory, which will give
>you options for all the serial boards the kernel supports.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Raju
>
> >>>>> "Yashpal" == Yashpal Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>     Yashpal> Hi Raj, which one would be better Redhat 6.2 or RH7.0 ??
>     Yashpal> I am asking from old hardwares point of view or shud i
>     Yashpal> recompile the kernel??  Also what to do for iBCS
>     Yashpal> compatibilty ? does it comes default? and if possible
>     Yashpal> give me any link which gives drivers info?
>
>     Yashpal> Regards,
>
>     Yashpal> Yash
>
>     Yashpal> Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wrote--- Hi Yashpal,
>
>     Yashpal> You shouldn't have any problems with migration.  FoxBase
>     Yashpal> for SCO should run under iBCS (the Intel compatibility
>     Yashpal> module available for Linux, which manages to run most
>     Yashpal> SVR4/SCO programs without any problems) and you can buy
>     Yashpal> 8/16-port serial cards for Linux quite cheap.  If you're
>     Yashpal> lucky, you may even be able to pull your multiport card
>     Yashpal> out of your SCO box and plug it into Linux.  Have a look
>     Yashpal> at the multiport drivers in the kernel.
>
>     Yashpal> Regards,
>
>     Yashpal> -- Raju
>
> >>>>> "Yashpal" == Yashpal Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>     Yashpal> Hi!  Friends, One of my colleague want some assistance on
>     Yashpal> moving from sco sytem V (3.2) to linux in some
>     Yashpal> Govt. department the scenerio is...  1. one sco
>     Yashpal> server(486) connected to 8 dumb terminals, all these
>     Yashpal> boots from this only server.  2.foxbase programes are
>     Yashpal> running on sco server.  Now my questions are...  Were
>     Yashpal> linux server will be able to boot these dumb terminals ??
>     Yashpal> and what are the probability for running these foxbase
>     Yashpal> programes will they run on linux machines without any R&D
>     Yashpal> etc ??  please assist
>
>     Yashpal> Regards,
>
>--
>Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/
>
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