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BLADE 0.2 now available! (Linux for Alpha)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 10 05:24:38 1995
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:43:32 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: paradis@sousa.amt.tay1.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: BLADE 0.2 now available! (Linux for Alpha)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
The second release of BLADE, the Basic Linux/Alpha Distribution (Environment?
Eyesore? Expletive?) is now available (or will be, within a few hours
of this message) at ftp.dec.com and its mirrors.
I have rearranged the BLADE directory structure a little bit to make
things easier to get at. The goods can be found in the following
directories:
/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/BLADE_0.1 - The original BLADE 0.1 distribution.
This is what is available on the
Yggdrasil Internet Archive CD-ROM
/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/BLADE_0.2 - The newest release (see below for
list of added features)
/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/BLADE_0.1-CD - This contains only what is
needed to install BLADE from the
Yggdrasil CD
/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/BLADE_0.1-0.2 - This contains only those pieces
that have changed between 0.1 and
0.2 (for those who are already
BLADE-runners 8-) )
Here is a summary of what has changed between 0.1 and 0.2. More complete
notes and documentation can be found in the BLADE_0.2 directory.
- MILO, the Linux/Alpha miniloader, is now provided and
supported. The miniloader is a console firmware replacement
which allows for the installation of Linux on systems that
do not support the SRM console firmware. We hope that
eventually MILO will become the preferred method of loading
Linux/Alpha, and that the SRM will be used only in those
cases where there is no MILO support.
- TCP/IP networking is now supported, and BLADE V0.2 provides
a number of networking utilities including: ftp, rcp, rsh,
telnet, finger, rlogin, rsh, arp, ifconfig, netstat, ping,
portmap, rarp, route, rpcinfo, and slattach. Networking
daemons provided are: fingerd, ftpd, rlogind, rshd, telnetd,
inetd, and tcpd.
- A number of newly ported utilities are also provided: getty,
init, login, whereis, klogd, mkswap, shutdown, syslogd, zdump,
zic, the SVGATextmode suite, and man. man pages are not yet
provided.
BLADE V0.2 is based on an updated version of the 1.2.8 kernel
used in BLADE V0.1. When BLADE V0.3 is released, it will use
the latest 1.3 kernel.
--
Jim Paradis (paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com) "It's not procrastination,
Digital Equipment Corporation it's my new Just-In-Time
(508)952-4047 Workload Management System!"
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