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BLADE 0.3 available for download
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Nov 25 22:21:32 1995
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 17:24:03 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: BLADE 0.3 available for download
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA
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BLADE 0.3 is now available for download from:
ftp.digial.com:/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/BLADE_0.3.
BLADE 0.3 (Basic Linux/Alpha Development Environment) is an installable
distribution of the Linux operating system for the Digital Alpha
microprocessor family. BLADE 0.3 is based on the Linux 1.3 kernel.
No special expertise is required to configure and install BLADE 0.3 and
no host system is required to load the software onto the hard drive.
BLADE 0.3 is completely self-supporting. You only need a supported
system and BLADE 0.3 to build a fully functional Linux/Alpha system
Although BLADE 0.3 contains significant new functionality over BLADE
0.2, the BLADE releases continue to be an interim distribution and
should be used only until the more professional distributions are
ported to Linux/Alpha.
This guide describes how you use the ARC console that is distributed
with your system to load Milo, the Alpha/Linux miniloader, and then use
Milo to install the appropriate parts of the BLADE 0.3 software.
General information about Linux/Alpha can be found at:
http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/
NEW FEATURES FOR BLADE 0.3
o ARC-loadable version of Milo. Allows Linux/Alpha to
coexist with Windows NT on the same system and allows using Milo
without altering the system ROM.
o X windows support. This includes the standard MIT X
clients and libraries, as well as one sample X server (XF86-S3).
o Milo sources are included as a BLADE subset.
o Support for more platforms (see Hardware Requirements, below)
o All utilities have been rebuilt with the latest C runtime library.
o BLADE 0.3 provides the following new or improved utilities:
install_subset minlabel mkbb apropos cdtools (audio CD player)
clear cpio ctags e2 utils finger fm (binary file editor)
fmt kermit lpr utils (printing) m4 mtools ref sendmail
shar uuencode/uudecode
Hardware Requirements
BLADE 0.3 supports the following platforms:
o AXPpci/33 (Noname) board
o AlphaPC64 (Cabriolet) board and clones
o EB64+ 21064-based Alpha Evaluation Board
o EB66+ 21066-based Alpha Evaluation Board
o Universal Desktop Box (Multia)
For each of those platforms, the minimum hardware
requirements are:
o 8MB or more main memory (X11 requires at least 16MB)
o 1.44MB floppy drive
o 100MB or larger IDE or SCSI hard drive (340MB or
larger suggested if you're going to do any kind of
serious software development or install X11)
o Any VGA card or Universal Desktop Box internal
graphics for character-cell mode.
For X11, ISA- and PCI-based VGA or SVGA cards are as
follows:
- Mach64
- #9 GXE PCI (S3 Vision864 chipset)
- #9 Level 12 (S3 928 chipset)
- Diamond Stealth 64 PCI
Other S3-based chipsets may work but have not been tested. Also,
the current X11 server supports only S3-based cards (805, 864,
and 928). This means, for example, that this release does not
support X11 on the Universal Desktop Box. An X server for the
UDB is in the works. In the meantime, you can populate the
UDB's PCI slot with a Diamond Stealth 64 PCI card and use it
instead of the UDB's internal graphics.
o Keyboard, mouse for X11
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