Re: about motif and dhcp under linux

Ben Wing writes: > > 1] do recent versions of linux support dhcp? my dsl router requires this. The short answer is "yes, but you might have to download the daemon dhcpd" There's a HOWTO document on DHCP+Linux, at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/index.html which tells all. > 2] i've heard that motif recently became free. According to some definitions of "free". (RMS doesn't like the licensing terms). > do binaries of it come with recent versions of linux? Not yet. The OpenGroup announcement about Motif is very recent - only about a week ago. I'm sure the Linux distributers will pick this up pretty quickly, but AFAIK none of the distributions have it yet. However, it's pretty straightforward to just download and install the motif sources - I did this a few days ago and had no hitches - check http://www.opengroup.org > if so, do those versions cost more? Cost? All you ever pay for with Linux is support. If you don't care about telephone support from RedHat, you can download everything you need, from debian.org (I personally prefer the debian distribution to RedHat) or redhat.com, or if a download is too tedious, you can get CD's for about $2 at cheapbytes.com.

> is there a recent version of the "motif programmer's reference" on > the net? [i have a very old and tattered version i stole from sun > years ago.] Well, the source kit comes with a lot of doc, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing as the Programmer's Reference you mention. However, doing a little searching I quickly turned up this: http://www.apps2go.com/documentation/Motif/mot-ref/ Hope this information is useful to you.