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Linux -- The free Minix like Un*x clone is here!
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Yes, we have Linux 0.97! (the latest and greatest!)
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Welcome to TSX-11's Linux FTP site!
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Directory structure:
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docs documentation (such as it is)
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INSTALL contains various programs useful for getting
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Linux up and running.
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SCSI contains the SCSI patches from drew@cs.colorado.edu,
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including a bootable .12 kernel for those with
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seagate adaptors only.
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images contains the initial boot disk and root disk images
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binaries various binaries for Linux
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(use the tar and compress programs found on the
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root disk to unpack these)
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sources sources to Linux, broken down by whether system
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sources (including libc.a), sources to system
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programs, sources to usr.bin, and library sources.
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patches contains patches to Linux (typically, but not always
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patches to the system sources, such as patches to
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add new features to the kernel).
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ports contains patches to make other programs compile on
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a Linux system
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mail-archive contains an archive of the Linux-Activsts mailing
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list
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info contains various useful informational files which
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Linux hackers may find useful
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TSX-11 does not yet have a mail server --- I'm working on it....
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To upload stuff --- please use the directory /incoming. It is
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world-writable, but not world-readable, so you (or anybody else) will
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not be able to see stuff which you drop there until I move it to the
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proper place the directory hierarchy.
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Please send mail to ftp-linux@tsx-11.mit.edu after you leave something there,
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so I can pick it up as soon as possible.
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The email address for digests of alt.os.linux (soon comp.os.linux?) is
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linux-activists@news-digests.mit.edu
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Anything mailed to this address will be posted to the appropriate
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newsgroup.
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All administrative requests (subscriptions/unsubscriptions/etc) MUST
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go to the administrative address:
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linux-activists-request@news-digests.mit.edu
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See below for what happens if you ignore this address :-)
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Linux mailing list (is _MANUALLY_ kept) addresses:
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For subscribing and unsubscribing:
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linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi
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For mailing real articles:
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linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi
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Please, do NOT send subscribe/unsubscribe mails to
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linus-activist@niksula.hut.fi, or I and other people
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will *flame* you, and you'll notice, how your mailbox
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filled up ;-). You even might get dozens of copies
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of netiquette from net users ...
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How to find out, who's on the list ?
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Just "telnet joker.cs.hut.fi 25" ('25' or 'smtp')
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tell our smtp, you want to "vrfy linux-activists", then
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you have the list of users. Say "quit" to quit.
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current status can be obtained by using "finger torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi"
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Here's a sample entry:
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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 Wed Mar 18 23:28 on ttyp5 from klaava
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New mail received Thu Mar 19 05:45:04 1992;
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unread since Wed Mar 18 23:51:01 1992
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Plan:
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Free UNIX for the 386
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The current version of linux is 0.95a: it was released March 17th, and
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is pretty close to what 1.0 will be : it needs some testing, but should
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be good enough to use for many things. 0.95a contains mainly bug-fixes
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to 0.95.
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NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! Plain 0.95 had problems with some harddisks that
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worked ok under 0.12, as well as a few bad bugs. These have been
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corrected (hopefully), but make sure you have the "a" version: the bugs
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in plain 0.95 can crash your machine rather badly.
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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: there are
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patches for a SCSI driver (currently ST-0[1|2]), but it hasn't made it
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into the "official" kernel yet. (The patches are against the 0.12
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version, but they should work with little changes on 0.95)
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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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0.95 contains these new things:
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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 other bugs as well)
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- better VC's (screen blanking, works on non-[EV]GA etc)
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- init/login
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- faster floppies
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0.95a should correct these bugs in plain 0.95:
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- floppy-reset gets called, and the machine may be unable to read
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floppies on certain hardware.
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- Some harddisks get read-errors (resulting in general protection errors
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etc)
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- console and tty-drivers have known bugs - sometimes weird output when
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writing heavily to the screen.
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- extended partitions don't work after all.
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