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COMMERCIAL: 6 CD set $22.95 or $6.95 per disc from Yggdrasil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Jan 17 17:35:30 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:12:15 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
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Subject: COMMERCIAL: 6 CD set $22.95 or $6.95 per disc from Yggdrasil
Summary: 6 CD's of Linux-related FTP areas, $22.95
Keywords: Linux Internet Archives FTP CDROM snapshot
Organization: Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
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Table of Contents Orders: +1 800 261-6630
Announcement +1 408 261-6630
Unusual Features fax: +1 408 261-6631
Contents of Discs orders@yggdrasil.com
Single CD's http://www.yggdrasil.com
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Technical Support (Sold Separately)
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Free Copies for Contributors
How To Get Linux Internet Archives By Tomorrow
Order Form
ANNOUNCEMENT Press Contact: Corrine Buteau
15 January 1996 +1 408 261-6634
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. (San Jose, CA) has once again
shipped a Linux CD-ROM set below the $4 per CD barrier: the six CD
Winter 1996 edition of Linux Internet Archives. The first CD
collection to have a suggested retail price below $4 per CD was the
July/August 1995 edition of Linux Internet Archives, and
L.I.A. remains the only Linux multi-CD set to do so. There are an
enormous number of new files in this release, but the biggest new
addition to Linux Internet Archives is the new sixth disc: the Red Hat
2.1 Linux distribution.
The new edition of Linux Internet Archives contains the free
Linux software from tsx-11 and sunsite, the GNU archive on
prep.ai.mit.edu, the X11R6 archives including the free contributed
X11R6 software from ftp.x.org, the internet RFC standards, and a total
of nine non-Yggdrasil Linux distributions:
1. BLADE 0.3 for DEC Alpha (disc 5)
2. Debian 0.93R6 (disc 1)
3. Jurix (disc 4)
4. MCC 1.0+ (disc 1)
5. mini-linux (disc 2)
6. Red Hat 2.1 (disc 6)
7. the free portions of Slackware 3.0 (disc 1)
8. SLS 1.06 (disc 2)
9. Xdenu 2.0 (disc 2)
To make it easy to find things, the CD's are labeled with
their contents, and each CD has files listing the complete contents of
all six CD's in the set.
Linux Internet Archives is intended for people who are already
familiar with Linux, and who who want to have the most up-to-date
accurate images of the Linux FTP sites at their fingertips. Although
it is possible to install from the linux distributions included on
Linux Internet Archives and to do so substantially faster than
downloading from the internet, Linux Internet Archives is not designed
as a "Plug and Play" system. Linux Internet Archives does not include
a boot floppy, a live filesystem, or a manual (although it does have
an instruction sheet). Technical support is sold separately. Users
who want a Plug & Play system with a technical support call bundled
into its price should buy our main Linux distribution, "Plug & Play
Linux" instead of or in addition to Linux Internet Archives. On the
other hand, if you simply want a copy of certain Linux-related free
software on a CD, or lots of Linux-related free software on six CD's,
then Linux Internet Archives will probably be the most economical way
to obtain it.
What Linux Internet Archives does try to do is to include the
most FTP areas, updated the most frequently, and sold at the lowest
price. Linux Internet Archives is intended to be "no frills FTP
snapshots" for the Linux community.
For more information, please call 1-800-261-6630 or
1-408-261-6630.
UNUSUAL FEATURES
Linux Internet Archives has the following features that to the
best of our knowledge are not found together in any other single Linux
product, although each of them is available elsewhere:
o BLADE 0.3 DEC Alpha Linux port. This port does not
include networking or X-windows, but it does install
by itself on a DEC Alpha AXPpci/33 motherboards.
o Complete internet RFC standards, often sold as a separate CD
by others.
o All of the free X11R6 software on ftp.x.org, including
the MIT X11R6 distribution, the "contrib" tapes,
and the newer contributed software not on contrib
tapes. This is also often sold as a separate CD by others.
o A released version of Debian GNU/Linux (0.93R6 beta).
o The Red Hat 2.1 Linux distribution.
DISC CONTENTS
For convenience, each disk is labeled with its major
components (for example, "sunsite, part 1", "tsx-11"). The six
CDROM's in the set consist of the following:
Disc 1 Slackware 3.0* **, Debian 0.93R6, MCC 1.0+,
JE (Japanese Extensions)
Disc 2: part 1 of sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux*, SLS
distribution, last minute additions to
JE (Japanese Extensions)
Disc 3: part 2 of sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux*,
Disc 4: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux*, and Jurix.
Disc 5: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu, ftp.x.org:/pub/R6*,
internet RFC standards, plus the Blade Linux
distribution for DEC Alphas.
Disc 6: Red Hat 2.1 Linux distribution for i386.
* Denotes sections from which proprietary software was found and
removed. This CDROM contains only the free portions of
these packages.
** Slackware is a registered trademark of Walnut Creek CDROM.
SINGLE CD'S
Individual discs from Linux Internet archives are available
for $6.95 each; however, as part of our implementation of compliance
with the GNU General Public License, we require that if you buy any
copies of disc 2, 3 or 4, you must buy at least one copy of disc 5
(for the GNU sources). Since the most popular single CD's tend to be
the discs with the medium sized Linux distributions or the GNU
software (1, 5, and now presumably 6), this should not be a problem
for too many people.
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
All direct sales from Yggdrasil have an unconditional 30 day
money back guarantee, and we encourage our resellers to offer the same
policies (and we back this up with full purchase credit for any
returned copies).
TECHNICAL SUPPORT (SOLD SEPARATELY)
Yggdrasil will maintain an up to date errata list for Linux
Internet Archives on ftp.yggdrasil.com in
pub/products/linux-arc.Winter96/errata.txt. Linux Internet Archive
users interested in mutual support can get instructions on joining the
linux-arc-users@yggdrasil.com mailing list by sending mail to
listserv@yggdrasil.com with "help" in the first line on the body of
the message.
Beyond that, technical support for Linux Internet Archives is
sold separately. To bundle the substantial cost of a lower grade of
"free" support into our product prices would at best only duplicate a
level of service already available online and from user groups.
Yggdrasil offers a variety of support services, the most popular of
which are:
o Guaranteed Technical Support: $25 for a 15 minute
call guaranteed to answer at least one question or
solve at least one problem (or you are not charged).
Call toll free +1 800-261-6630 or +1 408-261-6630
to bill this service to your credit card.
o Technical Support Hotline: 1-900-446-6075 ext. 835.
$2.95/minute, billed to your credit card, 9am-5pm
Pacific time. You can also call our main number to
have this service billed to your credit card. Because
we do not control the duration of this type of call,
we cannot offer performance guarantees on it.
For more information on our technical support services, please
send an empty email message to tech-support-info@yggdrasil.com.
RESELLERS WANTED
Linux Internet Archives makes an excellent "add on" purchase
for people buying Linux products and accessory people who are already
running Linux. Because it is updated frequently, selling Linux
Internet Archives encourages customers to get in the habit of dropping
by every few months. High volume resellers will be glad to know that
the Winter 1996 issue of Linux internet archives now has an ISBN
barcode on it.
If you would like to resell Linux Internet Archives or any
other Yggdrasil product, please call David Fickes at (408) 261-6633.
Yggdrasil offers excellent reseller discounts.
FREE COPIES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
If you wrote something that is in Linux Internet Archives or on its
CD-ROM, you probably qualify for a free copy. Please see
ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/for-contributors/free-copy-offer for details.
HOW TO GET LINUX INTERNET ARCHIVES BY TOMORROW
Shipping and handling on all Yggdrasil direct end-user sales in
the United States is $5 per order, regardless of how many products you
order. For an extra $1, we will ship your order by Next Day Air
(Saturday delivery is another $5, please call for pricing for Sunday
delivery).
International air mail shipping is $10 per order.
Of course, the very fastest way to get Linux Internet Archives
is to drop by your local Yggdrasil reseller right now and pick one up.
Our distribution goes through more than one level of resellers, so we do
not have a complete list of everyone who sells our products, but we
are happy to help you find one if you call us.
To order, please call Yggdrasil at (800) 261-6630 or (408)
261-6630, or fax us at (408) 261-6630, or send email to
orders@yggdrasil.com, or use our web page (http://www.yggdrasil.com).
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