Linux and spice

isn't always best to work with the newest ?

Hello,

There is no reason not to upgrade to a Linux with version 2.6 kernel. I tried LTspice and Wine with the latest Ubuntu, Suse and Mandrake and it worked, even with the latest Wine version. OK, it was a few months ago, but I assume it's still true.

Best regards, Helmut

cdrecord does not get on well with with 2.6 kernels for starters and for seconds the 2.6 install procedure is a tad hand driven (not a problem as such for slackers but just a tad annoying).

Ian

Definitely not.

Ian

Hi Helmut,

Not sure what you are saying here as the latest Ubuntu, Suse and mandrake all use 2.6 kernels. The default slackware kernel is still 2.4

Ian

Not really true:

Linux-2.6 did introduce an incompatible kernel interface change at the time when cdrtools-2.01 were in code freeze state. Recent original cdrtools versions from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

work, but there is a lot of missinformation from uninformed people.

Old Linux versions have been safe and did require cdrecord to run as root.

Late Linux-2.4 and early Linux-2.6 versions did introduce a bug that allowed non-root processes to send SCSI commands.

Instead of fixing this bug, a filter was introduced in the Linux kernel that did allow some of the SCSI commands to be issued without root privs. This makes uninformed people believe that cdrecord does not need root privs and the filter list on the other side is still insecure and still allows non-root processes (e.g. the backup admin) to gain root privileges.

Joerg Schill>Not really true:

Is there anything here you'd like to change? http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:t7p-X4zFIr0J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkisofs+where-the-author-claims-to-have-fixed

Well, there is a need to change almost everything.

Don't trust Wikipedia...... if there are too many malicious people, it seems to be impossible to keep correct information and the Wikipedia admins do not help against these lyers :-(

Well, you may help me to correct the content ;-)

Thanks for this - this sounds like a lot less rigamarole than changing my kernel! :-)

Thanks, Rich

My pleasure. There's a very friendly yahoo group for LTSpice - definitely worth joining .

Ian

Oopps! Guess I spoke too soon - what exactly does "9.2.0 version" mean? There's no Slack 9.2 link, and wine itself is only up to 0.9.33.

So, could you be any more specific?

Thanks, Rich

ngspice is a very mature and usable program, there is no need to run spice in wine. But if you must, try http://158.132.148.166/

Also, if you can still find a copy, CircuitMaker 2000 runs PERFECTLY in wine.

I mean the 9.2.0 version of wine for slackware. Go to the download page for wine page at sourceforge and scroll down to the slackware packages. The last item listed is ' View older releases from the Slackware Packages package »'. Click this link and again scroll down and you will find wine version 9.2.0 listed. This is the one you want to download and install.

Hope that helps

Ian