On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Sherpa John wrote:
> I would like to know if the format(ting) of my messages is acceptable. I
> have set the line length to 72 in hotmail, but I see no options for how it
> actually formats the snet message (I can only hope it ain't HTML ;-)
Looks fine here under pine. Thanks for making the effort to get the email
formatting right.
> ...which leads to my query: what would you seasoned veterans recommend as
> the best linux distribution for working on circle? best being most stable,
> and as I am a beginner, one that won't require too much tweaking to get
> modded circle code to compile.
I would suggest going with Red Hat. It's the most popular distro (in the
U.S.) and therefore has the most support. I've installed, configured and
run quite a few flavors of Linux[1] over the past few years. Red Hat has
one of the easier install routines and is relatively easy to use. However,
in the most recent version of TurboLinux, I was especially impressed with
the ease of their install and how well their X config worked for
autodetecting all of my goodies.
If I were you, would grab a copy of a book like Red Hat Linux, Unleashed
and install off of the CD that came with the book. That will give you a
ton of documentation to go along with the package that you are installing.
[1] List of distros that I've worked on: Red Hat, Slackware, S.u.S.E,
Debian, Caldera, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Storm and FreeBSD.
[ObCircle] I've converted my mud from C to C++. Going to eventually go
from using linked lists with all those poitners to using the STL list
template. Has anyone attempted this? Any hints, pointers or other advice?
--
Zeavon Calatin, MageMaster of the Realms
Spear of Insanity
http://spear.kilnar.com/ telnet://spear.kilnar.com:1066
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