From: greimann@chopin.udel.edu (John B Greimann) Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 18:53:32 GMT
In article <1.12265.2381.0N27952C@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
>J >It took me less than an hour to setup the networking on my NeXT. I
>J >can now log into it from my Macintosh with NCSA Telnet. On my linux box
>J >I've been trying to get the thing to even recognize my host's name and
>J >the ethernet card for about 2 weeks.
>
>That's more of an indictment of your expertise than a criticism of Linux,
>if you read the FAQ's and followed your nose, you'd have been networking
>long ago. Two weeks is ridiculous.
Two weeks is a long time...but initially it took me a while to get networking
up and running...too much digging around the FAQ and stuff. Once I got it
going, though, it was cake. At one point, we added a machine in the basement,
but had to run wire and set up the files...we did the entire installation
in about 5 minutes (including running the wire!)
--Brandon