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From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: Xega questions...
Keywords: SLS xega virtual god life
Summary: help me please!
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:26:07 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Hi,

	I was wondering specificly which fonts could be used
     with Xega, I am new to X and dont know much about fonts.
     Also, Is it possible to create virtual space using Xega?
     
thanks
paul

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                       -Paul   (kilroy@ms.uky.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Any mail or fakemail available for linux ?
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:26:26 GMT
Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.

In article <1992Oct13.203906.2661@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>In <Bw0rFv.M5H@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG> steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins) writes:
>...
>>For the zillionth time:
>
>>If you have elm and smail 3.1.25, you don't need anything else for local
>>mail.  No procmail, no sendmail, no lmail, nothing!  Honest!
>
>Well, I tried and it just won't deliver to other users.
>If I am root I can send mail to anybody I want, but not if I am just
>an ordinary user.

Well, what can I say?  I've had smail and elm running correctly since May.

I do admit that it took several posts to the net to get the correct setup,
but most of that was due to buggy stdio C libraries at the time (long long
since fixed, thanks to HJ and Per).

As I recall, the important things were:
- elm is a regular program NOT setgid
- /usr/spool/mail has permissions 1777 (global read/write with the sticky bit)
- the mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail have permissions 600 (rw for owner only)

I think you probably didn't do the second thing, although on reflection,
that shouldn't matter as smail is setuid root, isn't it?  (mine is)

>I am still convinced that procmail is better (especially if you want to
>create mailing lists, one of the reason why I use procmail).
>Compiling procmail is a piece of cake, just type make  :-)

Well, I know nothing about mailing lists, but I was under the impression that
you can do that sort of thing with smail's alias file.

In any case, I'm not advocating throwing out procmail if you are really 
attached to it.  I just wanted to point out that it *is* optional.

>Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
>Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba

-- 
Steve Robbins  --  steve@nyongwa.cam.org
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they don't like it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon)
Subject: Re: SLS install problems...
Reply-To: gilles@dgbt.doc.ca
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 12:36:05 GMT

In article 16836@athena.mit.edu, krouth@etcs03.eld.ford.com (Kevin C. Routh) writes:
> I downloaded SLS 0.98 from tsx-11.mit.edu yesterday and took it home.
> These files include the recently announced updates (0.98p1).  I had
> several problems during the installation which I would like to find out
> are normal or abnormal.
> 
> First off, I wiped my previous installation using mkfs /dev/hda2 35190.
> I wanted to install into a clean disk partition to prevent problems
> which might occur from older files existing.
> 
> (1)	The lx98.taz file wouldn't install because it needs to install
> 	into /usr/src/linux and a previously installed file created a
> 	link in /usr/src which is linux->/usr1/src/linux.  The
> 	problem is that /usr1 and /usr1/src directories were NOT
> 	created beforehand, therefore an error from the tar.  I
> 	created them manually and tar xzvf'ed the lx98.taz files
> 	manually afterward.
> 
> (2)	Some of the uucp files did not install either.  I believe
> 	there were three of them.  The rest installed OK.
> 
> (3)	When using the menu program to uninstall some unneeded files,
> 	it could not find the file sysinstall.  I found it elsewhere
> 	and moved it to the correct location.
> 
> (4)	The passwd program does not allow passwords of over 8
> 	characters.   This is inconsistent with the 0.96c MCC version
> 	I previously had installed.
> 
> I basically can hack my way around these problems but I did want to find
> out if these problems are normal and if anybody else saw the same
> behavior.  E-mail or posting responses are fine.
> 
> I am impressed with Linux thus far and plan to install the xfree-86
> release next to try out with my Trident 8900c card.  If all goes well, I
> plan to invest in a LARGE second hard drive exclusively for Linux.
> 
> THANKS!
> 
> -- 
> Kevin C. Routh                     Internet:    krouth@etcs03.eld.ford.com
> Ford Microelectronics              IBMmail (PROFS):               USFMCTMF
> ELD IC Engineering
> 17000 Rotunda Drive, B-121         Voice mail:              (313) 337-5136
> Dearborn, MI  48121-6010           Facsimile:               (313) 248-6244
> 

I had the exact same problems as well as similar solutions plus the followong:

 (5)	When I run shutdown, it puts out some meaningless (to me at least)
	characters on the screen as well the shutdown message. Reboot seems
	to be clean. Any reason why it does that? I solved it by using the
	"shutdown" from H.J.'s 0.98pl1 (r|b)ootdisk. Things seem to be fine
	now.

Thanks a million for a nice OS.

---
Gilles Gagnon     gilles@dgbt.doc.ca      | The Communications Research Centre
					  | 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa CANADA

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kuehnel@rvs.uni-hannover.de (Stefan Kuehnel, SWL)
Subject: Xman complains about not finding tbl
Reply-To: kuehnel@rvs.uni-hannover.de
Organization: Universit"at Hannover, Germany
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:51:33 GMT

Hello Linux-Users,

Im using Linux (boot 0.98, root 0.97) and X11 (v 1.1, X386-Server and olvwm as windowmanager) and I'm very pleasured with it so far. But there has occured one problem I couldnt find any solution for yet:

The X-package includes a man-page viewer (xman) that works really fine until one selects a man-page. In this case it tries to format the selected page using a program named 'tbl' which 
is not installed on my system. Where can I find the tbl program ? Or can tbl be substituted by 
another program, that is more easy to get ?

If you have any suggestions to solve this problem, please reply. 

Thank you in advance ...
------------------------------------------------------------------
   /\
  |   Stefan K"uhnel
  |/  kuehnel@rvs.uni-hannover.de
  |\  
  |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Subject: What is 'libgcc' and where
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-14846]: poseidon
Keywords: gcc
  several things that I have tried to compile have given me the error:
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Ld: no such file for libgcc
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:50:22 GMT

Thanks,
Larry
From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: STACKER?
Keywords: is it o.k.?
Date: 10 Oct 92 19:02:52 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics

In article <Bvw2t5.963@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Marcus Madison) writes:
>i am about to install linux tomorrow, and i was wondering if it works
>o.k. with stacker, or should i just partition the linux part as non-
>stacker?
>(no flames, please for ignorance)
>
>-jon madison
>sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
>(jmmadiso@indyvax.iupui.edu)
>(no sig (i think)) 


No, no of course not. You can stack your dos partitions,
no problem, but you must leave one, or more clean ones
for linux. Anyway, stacker does not really create a
partition, it creates a big file, which has all the
compressed files, and emulates it as a partition for Dos.
For Linux you must have some clean partitions. This is
all simple if your disk is small and you are not using
extended file system. If you are, then I let someone
speek, I am not.
You can access a dos drive if you are using a stacker on
it. You wont be able to access compressed files but you
can otherwise use it (copy files from Linux to dos, or
viceversa). You will actually be using what is a last drive
on dos.
This is assuming mtools. If you are using dos filesystem,
I cannot help you - I am not using it.
Hope it helps ..

		Rafal

-- 
/|| " Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that
 ||  that _is_ number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor 
 ||  in some great museum of science, and past it would file a 
==== steady stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe. "
From: khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little Kenny Hamer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS X problems.
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:03:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.5417
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA


Well, I must say that the install of SLS 0.98pl1 went quite smoothly. 
However, I can't get X to run anymore, even though I edited Xconfig to be
the same, video and mouse-wise, as my old system (0.96c).  I type 

"Startx"

it flashes breifly, and then crashes.  The message is 

"Fatal Server Error:  could not open default font "fixed", giving up"

and then it's all over.  As far as I can tell, all the fonts are in their
proper places, and the "fixed" font is in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc which is
in my fonts path.  I have tried, but I really am clueless.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks, 
	Ken Hamer
From: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM (Cameron Spitzer 408/764-6339)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ftp mail servers ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:11:26 GMT
Reply-To: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM
Organization: 3Com NAD, who won't let us peons FTP



What's your favorite ftp mail server?  I've been using
ftpmail@dec.com
and it's taking two or three days to get a file from tsx-11.
Is there a faster one?  Please mail and I'll summarize
after a few days.  Thanks.  camerons@nad.3com.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@victrola.sea.wa.us (The system god)
Subject: Re: No mouse under xfree86-1.1
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:40:45 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

the fix I found was to go back to  0.97p5, which recognized the mouse
as a Microsoft mouse on bootup.  098p1 didn't see *any* mouse at all.

several other folks said to set the Xconfig as 'Microsoft', which was
indeed necessary.  Thanks guys!!! X is working wonderfully...

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- root@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
                    +++ A Waffle Iron - Linux Division +++
From: mchapin@cse.unl.edu (Mark Chapin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Kernel panic!?
Date: 15 Oct 1992 00:38:26 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu

In attempting to install the SLS package, I partioned my hard drive several
times using fdisk from Linux, DOS and even OS/2.  After every attempt I use
mkfs -c /dev/hda2 57344 (with or without the -c) . No matter what I do I
get Kernel Panic:  Trying to write bad sector.
Wassup?  I have an ESDI 660 MB Seagate.  I have partitioned it several
different ways.  I am putting the Linux/Minix partition in a primary slot. 
I have tried the turbo on/off.  Any suggestions on what to try.  I guess I
could try putting Linux as hda1, but I don't see how this would solve
the problem.  Please HELP!!!
.
--
===============================================================================
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   If it isn't Kawasaki, it isn't Jetski!    |             FOR RENT
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: delman@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: real SLIP, multiport cards?
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:52:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct13.161421.21714@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>From some messages I saw here I thought SLIP for Linux was out, but there
>is nothing in the SLIP alpha directory. Is SLIP in the kernel to a state
>where it is useable yet? If so where do you get it?

Try a "cd ALPHA/SLIP/private/slip0.0" in the linux directory. [The
private directory is not readable but executable.] 

I would also like to know the state of kernel support for SLIP. At the
moment I use the ka9q package.

Delman.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart)
Subject: Re: ! on the command line?
Organization: BC News and Mail
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:37:04 GMT

In article <718857952snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
>I'm running -/97 patch 6 with bash. I was playing around with a script
>file with sed and trying to enter a !cmd -
>
>file * | sed '/text/!d'
>
[... more description deleted... ...]

You disable csh style history substitution in bash with:

   set +o histexpand

You need to do this with bang paths for uucp as well ...

js  who_is_ALWAYS_willing_to_help_:)
From: broadley@lrdc5 (Bill Broadley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xfm1.1 (core dumped)
Date: 8 Oct 92 05:37:03 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I'm trying to get xfm1.1 to work I tried both the binary and the source 
code, and with both after fallowing the directions:

                        xmkmf
                        make
                        cat DEFAULTS >>~/.Xdefaults
                        xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
                        ./xfm
I always get Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any ideas?  I'm running 0.97.pl 6 With gcc, jump 4.1 etc.

--
Bill
Broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "peter pauer" <peter.pauer@canrem.com>
Subject: problems booting b:
Reply-To: "peter pauer" <peter.pauer@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:58:24 EST


Hi,
I'm trying to get LINUX to boot from by B: drive (3 1/2" 1.4M) drive.
Am having some serious problems.

I run a program called BootB form the A: drive, this works and
the boot process runs from B: LINUX starts up and asks for it's
root disk, then many bread failures occur, followed by a kernal panic.

I changed the BOOT image at offset 508/509 to 29 02, the Minor/Major
for the B: floppy dirve. Oddly if I set the offsets to 28 02 the A:
drive does begin to spin, unfortunately it is of a type not
acceptable to LINUX.

BTW, this used to work with the original version of LINUX.
Anyone have any IDEAS.

<PETE>
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
From: pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Does the SLS version of crond work?
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:55:47 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Does the cron that comes with SLS work?  I'm running crond.  I have set
up a cron file that looks something like this:

* * * * * /bin/echo HELLO > /dev/tty8

I know it's in the right place since I used the included crontabs
program to put it there as root.  Nothing ever appears on tty8.  Any
ideas?

Thanks.

JP
-- 
Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator        pfaffman@pilot.njin.net
Dwight-Englewood School, 315 E. Palisade Ave.                      
Englewood, NJ  07631-0489                 201-569-9500
(Testing  new site --> pfaffman@relax.mcds.com)
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Changing X display driver
Date: 13 Oct 1992 11:38:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Hi! First of all, I want to thank whoever it was that sent me mail about my
last problem -- I'd respond my mail, but I lost my HD while trying to
install Linux :-(.

I have Linux installed, and everything seemed to go on OK except for uucp
-- whatever that may be. Anyway, now I'm trying to load X11. startx quits
out with a message about not having the right card for the driver. It also
says that its trying to run in 256 color mode. What I want to do is find
some mode (16 color? 2?) which my generic card can run. (I have a Trident
chipset.)

Browsing through the FAQ and man pages for an hour left me more confused
that before.

So, could anyone pleeeease help me? :-)

Many thanks in advance.
-- 
+-------------+------------------+---------------------------------+
| Damien Neil | dpn2@po.cwru.edu | Case Western Reserve University |
+-------------+------------------+---------------------------------+
From: bx516@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Victor Charles Zandy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: emacs shell question
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:13:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I am using emacs-18.58 under linux.
When I run shell in a buffer, I get the error, "/bin/sh: [<PID>:n]
tcgetattr:  Invalid Argument" when I am not root.  When I am root,
this message goes away.  Anyone know what the error means?

Victor Zandy
vzandy@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: enu321d@barney.eng.monash.edu.au (A. Walker)
Subject: Installing GPROF
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:47:39 GMT

	I've got mcc-interim linux v0.96c and want to install gprof.
I got binsrc.TZ and compiled gprof.  But on compiling a test program
(gcc -pg) various librarys are missing.  I managed to locate gcrt0.a, 
lib.so.4.a (?) from lib-src-4.1.TZ . ld still complains about libc_p.a .
What libraries do i need?  
	Please dont suggest i install SLS linux!!!
NOTE: most of these files i got under the 'GCC' directory on
monu1.cc.monash.edu.au.
	Is there any work around? 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Loadable device drivers, IPC: Any plans?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:27:36 GMT

A couple of months ago Linus indicated that he might incorporate
lodable device drivers into linux. Are there still any such plans. I
know somebody has written a code to that is supposed to do that. Was
that submitted to Linus. Also, I saw some IPC stuff on tsx-11. Are
there any plans to have IPC support in linux? Just curious. Maybe
Linus would shed some light into that.



--
/M. Saggaf
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "14-OCT-1992 14:34:35.36" <nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
Subject: Timing problems with ATI VGA Wonder+ and NEC 3D
Reply-To: nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:46:01 GMT

Hi folks!

I mail for a friend of mine. He has timing problems with his ATI VGA Wonder+
and NEC MultiSync 3D under XFree86 v1.1.
Is anybody out there with a working XFree86?
Please mail your Xconfig file to nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de

Chipset of the ATI VGA Wonder+(V 6) is 28800-4, 18800 and 512KB RAM.

Thanks a lot...


Andreas
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: plph@engin.umich.edu (Mark Montague)
Subject: Making jumptable libs (repost)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 14:34:44 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor


<Sigh>.  I was hoping I could figure it out myself, but...

Could some kind soul please give me a hint on how to build the shared
libraries with jump tables?

  * I compiled the static libararies with "make static" in libc-linux.  These
    go in /usr/lib, correct?

  * I did a "make jump" in libc-linux.  Where do I put libc-linux/*.a so the
    stuff in shlib/jump can find them?

  * In general, what do I have to do from here?  Am I correct in assuming that
    shlib/jump is the place to start, or do I have to do something in
    shlib/classic first?

  * Where did the *.a files in shlib/stub come from?  Can I generate them
    myself?

Thank you very much for any help!

Mark Montague
plph@caen.engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Gerald Heim)
Subject: Re: Writing Linux disks on Sun
Organization: organisiert? ich? ach was!
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:49:45


hi

tar cf /dev/fd0 <files> on the sun should also work if your disk is
already formatted.

gjh
From: jo@88opensi.88open.ORG (Jo Stockley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: thoughts and queries after loading SLS distribution
Keywords: SLS vi linux
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:19:27 GMT
Reply-To: jo@88opensi.UUCP (Jo Stockley)
Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd., San Jose

Hi all you linux peeps. I've been watching comp.os.linux for some time now and
finally decided to give it a try. I downloaded the SLS Linux 0.96c distribution
from uunet and loaded up the full base system last night....

WOW! Put me down as impressed. I was bowled over by how easy it was to install
(I have dibbled around with Minix since the book and 1.1 came out back in '87
and it was never as easy to set up on HD as this).

So far the only problems I've come up against are these:
1. While using doinstall /dev/hda2 to install everything I occasionally get
   write protect error on the floppy (after following the SLS instructions &
   write protecting the floppies). Is this normal?
2. Once installed, vi (symbolic link to elvis) barfs that it can't find a 
   library but fails to say which library, just prints ''. Any ideas?
   I plan to pull the source and recompile.
3. When trying to compile sokoban two problems occur. First the makefile
   has a -T flag which cc barfs at. No problem I simply removed it.
   Secondly, the C compiler (I think it was cc1) core dumped. This didn't
   happen if I turned off optimisation (-O6 was the arg).
4. On boot up, I get a menu with a TRIDENT copyright and several mode
   choices, of which only the first 2 (80x25 and 80x50) are sensible. The
   others are things like 16x3. 

All pretty trivial stuff really but I would be nice to know if this is to
be expected.

Anyway, it all looks very good. Well done chaps and keep up the good work!

Jo


-- 
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88open Consortium Ltd.			Fax:   (408) 436 0725
100 Homeland Court, Suite 800		Email: jo@88open.org
San Jose,				       ...!uunet!88opensi!jo
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cs4gp6aw@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Paul Mora)
Subject: Re: Video cards for linux
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:34:26 GMT


Hello !

This is my first post ever, so please be patient.

I am having a problem with Linux/X and am in need of assistance. I installed
the SLS disks last night on my machine, and all appeared to have gone well.
However, when I typed 'startx', I got some error that seemed to say there
was something configured wrong with my video card. 

If anyone has any experience with ATI Graphics Ultra and Linux installation,
could they please email me direct? Don't start a new thread here, as this
probably is a repeat question.

Thanks in advance,

Paul Mora
Computer Geek
McMaster University

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: XFree86, SpeedStar Plus & 1024x768?? --> HELP!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 02:45:24 GMT

Hi,
  Has anyone been able to get a SpeedStar Plus to work with XFree86 at a
resolution of 1024 x 768? It works fine at 640x480 and 800x600, but I can't
get it to work at 1024x768?  It used to work fine at that resolution with
X386 1.2 though?  Thanks,

Jaime

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux