Hi,
Thanks for the clarification. Since I am only new to Linux I was relying on
what the course instructor told us.

Gary Nolan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Gerrit Kootstra" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Linux


> Gary,
>
>
> xinetd is not a copyright name change. xinetd means extended inetd, it has
some
> security extensions inetd has not. RedHat used to call the internet daemon
> inetd on the 6.2 release and older. On 7.0 it changed the name as a patch
was
> released.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra
>
>
> Gary Nolan wrote:
>
> > Just to second what James said. Setting up Linux is just that easy. My
new
> > job sent me on a quick Linux course a few weeks ago. We downloaded
RedHat.
> > Burned to cd, I think we used Nero to do this, remember that RedHat is
down
> > loaded in disk image. We then booted from the cd and away we go. Thanks
to
> > using Samba, ftp and Inetd on the 3000 all this stuff looked the same on
> > Linux, just the names have been changed ie Inetd is Xinetd this is done
for
> > copyright reasons. One thing that is neat in Linux is if you forget to
load
> > an option on the install it is real quick and easy to add in what you
missed
> > and in most cases you do not need to reboot to use it. I will get to
play
> > with Linux more in the future, it looks real interesting.
> >
> > Gary Nolan
> >
>
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