RedHat enterprise Linux is no longer the standard Linux distribution in use by EECS. CentOS is now the distribution of choice in the department.

The distributions supported and recommended by the LUG remain Ubuntu and Fedora.

A while back I posted a howto on booting your floppy image with dosemu. I've since discovered that dosemu sucks pretty hard and qemu is much better.

Here is the entirety of my "booting a floppy image with qemu howto":

And there you have it ....

I found this information at the latest CEACC meeting and thought some of our younger LUG members might be interested.

TO: Freshmen Engineering Students
FROM: Dr. Shane Brown and Karyn Hildreth

We are requesting your participation in a reasearch project to understand factors that influence the success of students in engineering. We will be studying how and with whom students interact with those around them by monitoring the development of social networks over the course of the term.

We are looking for 40 engineering students in their freshman year in the engineering department to participate in our study.

This post applies to users with a fairly new ATI video card.

Does your computer lock up while the screensaver is running ever since you updated to Ubuntu 5.10? The solution appears to be updating your video drivers. In the Synaptics package manager, search for and install the package xorg-driver-fglrx or from the command line type:

apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

Source

If you've started on the homework for Cpts 460, you've no doubt discovered by now that the bcc compiler sucks little tiny hamster nuts.

You should be careful installing the package from the CptS 460 homepage, since that installs to /usr and wipes out some important files, such as /usr/bin/ld86 and /usr/bin/as86. Dave Brown has made another package that installs to /usr/local that should be safer to install. You can pick up his package here: http://lug.wsu.edu/~dmlb2000/Dev86bin-0.16.17.tgz

If you have issues with that, you can always go straight to the source and compile it yourself. The homepage for bcc is here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.debath/