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COMMERCIAL: Yggdrasil Plug & Play Linux Fall 1995, Revision B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Nov 4 03:34:01 1995
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 22:54:56 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: linux-announce-owner@vger.rutgers.edu
From: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Subject: COMMERCIAL: Yggdrasil Plug & Play Linux Fall 1995, Revision B
Organization: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
Summary: Free update for Fall 1995 owners
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YGGDRASIL PLUG & PLAY LINUX Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
FALL 1995, REVISION B 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
San Jose, CA 95129
(800) 261-6630
(408) 261-6630
fax (408) 261-6631
27 October 1995 tech-support@yggdrasil.com
Yggdrasil Computing is now shipping revision B of the Fall
1995 release of Plug and Play Linux.
The original Fall 1995 release has been available for almost
two months. In that time we have been collecting and publishing bug
reports and suggested fixes, as we do with every release of Plug &
Play Linux. (See ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/support/fall95 for the latest
errata.) This time, however, we are going a step further. In the
spirit of "Plug and Play", we are making available a CD with many of
the bug fixes and user suggestions already applied. To use this
updated CD, you have to reinstall. There are a lot of fixes applied
to this CD, and you may be experiencing the side-effects of a bug
without realizing it. Among the bugs fixed is a serious problem in
the mailer daemon. On a more positive note, there are also some
performance enhancements, and this is the version of Plug & Play Linux
that is used in our upcoming video on installing and using Plug & Play
and other linux distributions. We recommend that all users install
the new revision.
DIRECT SALES CUSTOMERS
If you bought your copy of Plug & Play Linux directly from us
or are a subscriber, you do not have to do anything. We have already
mailed the update CD to you, and you should be receiving your copy
shortly if you have not already. If you do not receive your copy by
November 6th, then please call us.
CUSTOMERS WHO BUY FROM RESELLERS
Our update CDROM is available from our technical support
service for free to any owner of the original Fall 1995 release.
There is no shipping charge, even internationally. Requesting this
update does not use the free technical support call that comes with
the Fall 1995 release, and you can even use our toll free phone number
to request the update (1-800-261-6630). If you are outside of the
United States and Canada, you can call us at (408) 261-6630 or fax us
at (408) 261-6631. All you need is your Plug & Play Linux serial
number, and we will immediately ship you the revision B CD and boot
floppy. You can keep your original copy. You do not have to send us
anything.
YGGDRASIL RESELLERS
If you are an Yggdrasil reseller, you do not need to adjust
your inventory. We will continue to honor requests for the free
upgrades from your customers until at least 90 days after the next
release of Plug & Play Linux. However, if you want to upgrade your
unsold inventory, we can do that for you for free also. Just let us
know approximately how many copies you want to replace. We will send
you the replacement copies, and then you send us the original copies
after you have received the replacements. If you send back fewer
copies, we will just bill you for the difference. If we can select
the shipping method, we will pay shipping in both directions.
BUGS AND OTHER ANNOYANCES FIXED IN THE FALL 1995 REVISION B CD-ROM:
1. System hangs at boot time with older Mitsumi 1X and 2X proprietary
bus CDROM drives. (Use revision B boot floppy.)
2. Sendmail does not deliver some local mail to non-root accounts.
3. "Recommended" install does not install a number of files that
really ought to be included.
4. "basename" utility is not included in the basic DOS install.
5. Double clicking on "libs" software component generates an error.
6. Installing "libs" optional software component breaks symlink in /lib.
7. Script generated by graphical control panel for serial internet
connection (slip/cslip) does not match changes in newer version of dip.
8. Static version of libg++ ought to be included.
9. User requests for preconfigured FTP daemon (/var/lib/ftpd).
10. Installing "libs" component disconnects /lib/libc.so.5 symlink.
11. install_component is slow.
12. Curses-based programs should check /lib/terminfo when
/usr/lib/terminfo is not present.
13. X configuration problems for Mach64, Mach32, and #9 GXE S3 cards.
14. Various control panels need to be upgraded to deal with
trailing newline added in Tk 4.0 text widget.
15. Users prefer install_component to display file-by-file
status, and is misleading when installing multiple components.
16. Graphical control panel generates incorrect printcap file
for directly attached local printer.
17. Root path includes "/bin/" instead of "/bin". This is harmless,
but lacks aesthetics.
18. man pages for smail are on disk 2, but not disk 1.
19. Diagnostics from manual page initialization at first boot look
like errors, spooking users.
20. /dev/mcd has incorrect major device number.
BUGS NOT FIXED IN REVISION B:
21. Users want non-DOS-based PCMCIA installation.
22. Installation really requires 8MB of RAM.
23. PCI BIOS-32 driver panics under some special hardware configurations.
(Only on Gateway 2000 P5-60 with ATI Mach64 PCI video card?)
24. Adaptec 152x fails to detect CD in some hardware configurations.
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