[ale] Happy Birthday!!!

[Jonathan Rickman]

From: bf703 at cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
To: ale at ale.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Slackware Linux 1.00
Date: 17 Jul 1993 00:16:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Reply-To: bf703 at cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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The Slackware Linux distribution (v. 1.00) is now available for 
anonymous FTP. This is a complete installation system designed for
systems with a 3.5" boot floppy. It has been tested extensively with
a 386/IDE system. The standard kernel included does not support SCSI,
but if there's a great demand, I might be persuaded to compile a few
custom kernels to put up for FTP.

This release is based largely on the SLS system, but has been enhanced and
modified substantially. There are two main disk series, A (13 disks) and
X (11 disks). Some of the features:   

Series A:
  About what you'd expect from SLS series A, B, and C. Plus:
  Source for the Linux DOS emulator version 0.49.
  The FAQ for kernel level 99pl10.
  Kernel source and image at .99pl11 Alpha.
    [compiled with these options: math emulation support, normal hard drive
    support, TCP/IP, System V IPC, -m486, minix fs, ext2 fs, msdos fs, nfs,
    proc support, and PS/2 style mouse support. You may need to recompile if
    you have some other type of busmouse. The kernel was compiled with libc
    4.4.1, g++ 2.4.5]
  The new keytable utilities.
  The NET-2 networking package, preconfigured to use loopback.
  A public domain version of ksh, and tcsh 6.04 (with the bugs worked out)
  GNU gcc, g++, and Objective-C at versions 2.4.5
  Includes and libraries at version 4.4.1
  mailx, quota utilities, experimental winapi source, sound drivers.
  The TCL toolkit and samples.

  In addition, the installation program has been improved to offer more
  information about the packages (and the installation procedure itself)
  as you install.

  The install program can also automatically install LILO, configuring it
  to boot either from your master boot record or from OS/2's Boot Manager.

Series X:
  Also, all the packages you would get in the SLS X series, plus:
  XFree-86 version 1.3.
  Open Look Virtual Window Manager made the default window manager.
  XS3 server offers support for S3 based video cards.
  XV 3.00 Image viewer is included.
  PEX files from the XFree-86 distribution are included.

Although TEX support is not included in the Slackware release, the you may
install the SLS T series from the install program.

At this point, the install disk itself is running .99pl8. I'm working on it 
:^)
Also, installation from other than a 3.5" floppy has not been tested, but 
might work. 5.25" floppy will not work because of file sizes. At this 
point, I have no plans to support a 5.25" version.

How to get the Slackware(tm) release:

The Slackware release may be obtained be anonymous FTP from
mhd3.moorhead.msus.edu in directory /pub/linux/slackware. At least 
initially, this release will be in the form of 3.5" disk images which 
should be copied to floppies using the RAWRITE.EXE program, or dd under 
Linux.

Please note that our FTP software does not support limiting the number of
concurrent anonymous logins. PLEASE try to go easy on this machine. If 
things get out of hand, access may be restricted.

Other sites are, of course, welcome to help out with the load by mirroring
the distribution.

If you find any problems with the distribution, or if you have any 
suggestions for improvements, please let me know. If you know of more 
up-to-date versions of software in the distribution, I'd like to hear about 
that, too.

-- 
Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi at mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
bf703 at cleveland.freenet.edu


The oldest. The best. Happy birthday Slackware!!!

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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