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.