ANNOUNCE: Slackware Linux 2.0
Patrick J. Volkerding
Currently, the files in /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware
on sunsite are in limbo. DO NOT DOWNLOAD SLACKWARE FROM SUNSITE
until I get this fixed and post an announcement to that effect.
Get it from ftp.cdrom.com or tsx-11 instead. Thanks. --mdw]
Slackware 2.0 has just been released on ftp.cdrom.com, and should be showing
up on the mirror sites soon. Slackware is a complete distribution based on
Linus Torvalds' Linux kernel and a full set of GNU, BSD, and other applications
and utilities.
New features of version 2.0 include:
-- Linux kernel 1.0.9 (2 precompiled versions) or 1.1.18 (6 precompiled
versions) included. Source for many more versions, including most of the
recent 1.1.x patches. Precompiled versions of 1.1.10 and 1.1.16 are also
included for your enjoyment. :^)
-- XFree86 2.1.1
-- more choices of bootkernel disks to support more hardware. (10 different
installation kernels, all of which now support UMSDOS-0.3a)
-- UMSDOS installation mode allows you to create a swapfile - installs on
machines with only 4 meg with no repartitioning required.
-- New X applications added, including: gnuplot, xfig, xfractint, xpaint.
-- Taylor UUCP 1.05
-- GNU Emacs 19.25 and Lucid Emacs 19.10
-- Andrew 6.3
-- GNU Common Lisp, Pascal, Gnat (Ada9X compiler)
-- optional troff source for all of the manpages
-- A new self-booting rescue disk for 8 meg machines
-- ...and more!
The home FTP site for Slackware 2.0 is ftp.cdrom.com, where the binary
distribution is found in /pub/linux/slackware and the full source is found in
/pub/linux/slackware_source. Please try to go easy on this site until the
mirror sites catch up. If you can use a mirror site, do. A list of these sites
can be found on ftp.cdrom.com in /pub/linux/slackware/MIRRORS.TXT.
Development of Slackware 2.0 was sponsored by Morse Telecommunication, Inc.
Morse will be releasing Slackware Professional Linux in a few weeks. This
package will be the official Slackware CD-ROM distribution and will allow you
to easily run Slackware directly from the CDROM with a small (7-10 meg) root
partition which can be either Linux native or MS-DOS. Full, printed
documentation for Slackware will also be included in this package. Watch for
the announcement in comp.os.linux.announce.
A more complete feature list can be found in the file README.v2, found in
the distribution directory.
Have fun!
---
Patrick Volkerding
volk...@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
volk...@ftp.cdrom.com
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