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COMMERCIAL: Pacific HiTech's Linux Developer's Kit Available!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri May 5 13:40:22 1995

Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 17:40:30 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu

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From: Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Pacific HiTech's Linux Developer's Kit Available!
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                            Pacific HiTech
                         Linux Developer's Kit 
                          April 1995 edition
                     Linux 1.2.5, Slackware 2.2.0.1

I just finished (whew!) putting together our Double-CD set and it's
available now.  It contains Linux 1.2.5, Slackware 2.2.0.1, Debian,
MCC and Japanese extensions and a huge portion of the archives at
Sunsite and Tsx-11.

You can view the disks with any web browser.  The HTML interface
provides an index to the contents, Matt Welsh's HTML Installation
Guide, and relevant pointers out to the Internet.

The Contents:

   Disk 1:

	INDEX.html	HTML interface for this disk
	INSTALL.TXT	Starting point for installing Linux
	install/	HTML version of the Installation Guide

	slackware/	Most common distribution (large)
	debian/		Debian "GNU/Linux 0.93 Release 5" distribution
	MCC/		Very small MCC distribution
	linux-ecarp/	"Linux for MS-DOS filesystems"
	mini-linux/	Small linux with net/X11 for MSDOS filesystem
	xdenu/		"Use your pc as X terminal or full *n*x"

	je/		Japanese Extensions

	linux-doc-project/ Basic Linux Documentation
	howto/ 		"Howto" Documentation

	dos/		Dos utilities (floppy and hard disk preparation)

	misc/		Miscellaneous Distribution Stuff (Labels, etc)


   Disk 2:

	kernel/		Kernel Sources and Patches
	680x0/		Experimental kernels for Amiga and Atari

	apps/		Applications

	GCC/		C/C++ Compiler
	devel/		Other compilers, tools, etc.
	
	libs/		System libraries
	utils/		System utilities
	system/		System operation

	X11/		XFree86 v3.1.1

	games/		Entertainment


 **** $19.95 for the Double-CD Set ****


Orders and Sales:	sales@pht.com
		tel	+1-800-765-8369
		tel	+1-801-261-1024
		fax	+1-801-261-0310

Web URL:	http://www.pht.com/

We mirror sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu at our ftp site
ftp://ftp.pht.com/pub/linux.

We are also proud to host the home site of Linux International in the
United States: http://www.pht.com/linux-int.


Credits
-------

Thanks to those who made suggestions on the last LDK version.

Thanks to Linus for the great system, to the kernel and application
hackers everywhere, to HJ Lu For his work on quietly making gcc do its
job, to the FSF, the BSD project, MIT, the XFree86 crowd, Matt Welsh
and the dedicated documentation fellows, Patrick Volkerding of Walnut
Creek for Slackware, Ian Murdock and the Debian team, the distribution
and package maintainers, and to the site maintainers at sunsite,
tsx-11, and funet.

A special thanks to Erik Troan for making sunsite's slick HTML
interface available.

Sorry to those I forgot to mention.  Insert your name here :)


The PHT Guarantee
-----------------

We want happy customers!  If you're not satisfied with your purchase,
return it with an explanation for a refund.  We welcome your
constructive input for improving future editions.

Happy Linuxing!
Brad (brad@pht.com)

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