From: hagan@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan) Subject: a few questions -- tcp/ip? Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 17:15:57 GMT
Hi, i am intersted in getitng linux on my system. What i am curious
about is, how easy is it to get the tcp/ip suite up and running.
Likewise, how easy/hard is it to get the X386 package running with
a TSENG et4000 card.
How complete is the TCP/IP suite? does it support FTP, TELNET,
rsh, rlogin, and, most importantly, can i pull up Xwindows from
another machine through it?
one other quickie: i ran linux way back in the 0.96 days, but
gave it up because the math libraries weren't fully functional (i am running
a 486, so i have hardware math). Are the math libraries working now,
i.e. can i use doubles, and expect sin(???) or exp(???) to return
the expected result, as opposed to giving me 0 and a math exception?
The reason for this all is that i am intending on porting some VLSI
design tools (magic) from BSD unix (which i am currently running) to linux on
my PC (if it is capable of the above stuff).
-- craig hagan
hagan@titan.ucc.umass.edu