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[kruuna.helsinki.fi]
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Login name: torvalds In real life: Linus Benedict Torvalds
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Directory: /home/kruuna/tkol/torvalds Shell: /bin/tcsh
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Last login Tue Feb 18 16:51 on ttypf from LKS500
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No unread mail
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Plan:
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Free UNIX for the 386
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The current version of linux is 0.12 - it has most things a unix kernel
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needs, and will probably be released as 1.0 as soon as it gets a little
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more testing, and we can get a init/login going. Currently you get
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dumped into a shell as root upon bootup. There are simple init/logins
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available, but it's not yet part of the "official" distribution.
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Linux can be gotten by anonymous ftp from 'nic.funet.fi' (128.214.6.100)
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in the directory '/pub/OS/Linux'. This directory structure contains all
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the linux OS- and library-sources, and enough binaries to get going. To
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install linux you still need to know something about unices: it's
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relatively straightforward to install, but the documentation sucks raw
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eggs, and people with no previous unix experience are going to get very
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confused.
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Linux still requires an AT-compatible disk to be useful: people are
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working on a SCSI-driver, but I don't know when it will be ready.
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There are now a couple of other sites containing linux, as people have
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had difficulties with connecting to nic. The sites are:
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Tupac-Amaru.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (137.226.112.31):
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directory /pub/msdos/replace
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tsx-11.mit.edu (18.172.1.2):
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directory /pub/linux
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(and many additional sites: there are now sites in the uk, japan etc
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that carry linux, but I have lost count)
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There is also a mailing list set up 'Linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi'.
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To join, mail a request to 'Linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi'.
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It's no use mailing me: I have no actual contact with the mailing-list
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(other than being on it, naturally).
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For those of you able to read the alt.* newsgroups, there is also a
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linux newsgroup available: alt.os.linux, which should hopefully become a
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comp.* group when the votings etc are ready.
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Mail me for more info:
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Linus (torvalds@kruuna.Helsinki.FI)
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PS. The next version (0.13, possibly called 0.95) should be out in early
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March. The deadline for patches to 0.12 was February 15th, and no more
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patches will be accepted any more unless they are important (bug-fixes
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etc). 0.13 should contain these new things (most of them implemented by
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others, I'm happy to say):
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- ptrace (gdb is in beta-testing)
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- VFS (at least a minimal stubs-version)
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- bug-corrections (notably mm, but also some other minor bugs)
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- better VC's (screen blanking etc)
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- init/login
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- faster floppies
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