Re: A follow-up on the Tiger issue

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Date: 10/29/02 

Date: 29 Oct 2002 10:14:37 -0800

"Warren E Bullock III" <wbullock@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message news:<qyIu9.20857$c51.7063978@twister.nyroc.rr.com>...
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> I then did a little research and apparently the package was built back in
> 1993 so I decided to try installing Red Hat 7.0 on an old system and id did
> at least start to run... I have come to the conclusion that this is simply a
> compatibility issue between Tiger and any Linux distro after 7.1... but I'm
> not sure.. I am just a little disappointed though because in the Red Hat
> bible written for 7.3 the author suggests using Tiger. Well I have tried
> and it doesn't install correctly because it isn't compatible.. I think
> Linux Bible 7.3 needs to be re-vised...

The current release of Tiger is 3.1. I had to do a fair amount of work to
get it ported to my platform, but eventually got the compatibility issues
ironed out. It is free software, so the developers are probably dependent
on users to do some of the field testing. I'm sure they will appreciate
your constructive feedback.

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tiger/ 

--
  Bob

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