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Fawad,

Slackware exists because Patrick V. is not dead yet.

~Basit

Pklinux is dead because no one thinks its important to maintain (even myself), i created it because of only ONE purpose that is self learning. Making a distribution is very easy now a days, because of the availability of several good written documentations on it. and I don't want to create just anot...

the sirsyed university seminar, yes you can do it, please contact the officials and say you want to give a presentation on behalf of linuxpakistan? can you do it ? the computer incharge is Mr Rizwan - ul - hassan , if require, mention my name (Abdul Basit - 97CE134,) .. or contact teacher saqib huss...

you may find this useful
http://student.cs.twsu.edu/~axbasit/cs742

It was very easy, i just followed most of what BOOT+ROOT floppy howto told.

wassulam,

PKLinux project is almost dead, I only developed that as a hobby
and stopped working on it since long , it might be useful in
situations when you need to repair existing linux partitions or
have old computer where u want to run linux without doing
anything with hard disk.

Basit

Right, NPTL is supposed to be standard in few years.

user level threads or kernel level ?

Redhat 9.0 ships with new threading library NPTL that is the cause of all stucking/slow performance problems, they seems to have released the remedies for it.

Basit

despite of libc, all other userland library requirements remain the same. Debian is sleek in such a package management, freebsd or redhat package management is inferior to apt. But on the other hand, FreeBSD as a server OS supercedes Linux in many ways. To name a few - Superior IPv6 support/KAME. IP...

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc ... l#sec14.16

read this
-- basit

I think with HTTP protocol you can set where to start
like
HTTP.ContentRangeStart= some byteoffset(say 10021)
say 10020 already been downloaded and resume starts

-- basit

umask is for determining default file permissions
type umask 0777
and then type touch test-file
then do ls -l test-file
you will found that test-file is root,group,world readable/writable/executable now.

--- basit

just read kame howto on how to write protocol independent applications
and you 'll be all set, basically you just need to change some function families if in C