Re: AppleTalk support & netatalk

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:55:49AM -0800, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> The RPM that came with RedHat 7.1 and even Fedora Core 3 is relatively
> old (version 1.x). Netatalk 2.0 has been released just recently and it
> includes many improvements. I'd just build it from source or try
> rebuilding the rawhide rpm (if it exists). However, I am afraid, you
> with or without rpm, you still can't use it without appletalk support
> in the kernel which is a much bigger problem than the lack of netatalk
> package in RHEL.

At least in RHEL3 Red Hat provided the appletalk kernel module in the
unsupported package and it works fairly well.  

The real world hasn't retired Appletalk yet.  It isn't for a lack of
desire either!

        .../Ed

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