Re: AppleTalk support & netatalk

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Aviram Carmi wrote:

> I have the same question myself.

Cause Appletalk is dying thanks to the fact OSX speaks Open Protocols :)
This is a good thing, while AppleTalk was useful, it's time for it to go
and the replacement is way better.

In fact, unless you have a large base of OS8 machines, you really don't
need Appletalk.

> I am also wondering if it is better to install the older RPM from RH 71 (at 
> least it was tested by Red Hat), or go directly to the source and install the 
> latest version?

Please, use the source rpm's from netatalk.sf.net, you'll be much happier.
The RPM's Red Hat provided in 7.x were old then.

-n
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