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Slackware 1.1.1 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Mon Dec 13 14:35:04 1993
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 14:34:26 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
The latest release of Slackware is now available in
/mit/linux/slackware/Slackware.1.1.1
It contains a 0.99pl14 kernel, XFree86 2.0, a number of bootdisks,
claims to comply to the new filesystem standards, etc, etc, etc.
It seems to be a complete and clean distribution from what I have
seen so far.
I will be updating it about every week or so as changes are made
on ftp.cdrom.com.
--- Erik Nygren
-------------------- CONTENTS OF README.1.1.1 -----------------------------
This is Slackware Linux 1.1.1.
This version is not compatible with earlier releases of Slackware Linux,
due to changes in the filesystem structure and the uids of standard users
and gids of standard groups. It should be compatible with future releases,
but installing over existing systems is still not going to be 'recommended'
until I can get all the bugs out of it. There still are some.
It does not include the new C libraries, since they are still in alpha
testing and have not been fully released. Also, it does not contain a full
release of gcc 2.5.x, since the c++ in that requires the new C libraries to
work correctly. These things will be incorporated eventually, but at some
point I have to release things as I have them.
This is what you'll find in the subdirectories below:
./bootdisk Boot/install disks for 1.44M and 1.2M floppy drives. You will
need at least one boot/install system to install this software.
See the README file in ./bootdisk for more information.
./a1 - ./a3 The base system. Enough to get up and running and have elvis
and comm programs available. Based around the 0.99pl14 Linux
kernel, and the new filesystem standard (FSSTND).
These disks are known to fit on 1.2M disks, although the rest
of Slackware won't. If you have only a 1.2M floppy, you can
still install the base system, download other disks you want
and install them from your hard drive.
./ap1 - ./ap4 Various applications and add ons, such as the manual pages,
groff, ispell (GNU and international versions), term, joe,
jove, ghostscript, sc, bc, and the quota patches.
./cc1 GNU GCC 2.5.2. Does not work with C++, but may be useful for
recompiling 0.99pl14+. Most people will probably not want to
install this disk.
./d1 - ./d6 Program development. GCC/G++/Objective C 2.4.5, make (GNU and
BSD), byacc and GNU bison, flex, the 4.4.4 C libraries, gdb,
kernel source for 0.99pl14, SVGAlib, ncurses, clisp, f2c, p2c,
m4, perl, rcs.
./e1 - ./e5 GNU Emacs 19.22.
./f1 A collection of FAQs and other documentation.
./n1 - ./n3 Networking. TCP/IP, UUCP, mailx, dip, deliver, elm, pine,
smail, cnews, nn, tin, trn.
./oop1 Object Oriented Programming. GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1, and the
Smalltalk Interface to X. (STIX)
./q1 - ./q4 Alternate kernels and kernel source. Contains precompiled
0.99pl13r and 0.99pl14a kernels, and kernel source for
0.99pl13, 0.99pl13r, and 0.99pl14a.
./tcl1 - ./tcl2 Tcl, Tk, TclX, blt, itcl.
./y1 Games. The BSD games collection, and Tetris for terminals.
--------- X windows disks:
./x1 - ./x5 The base XFree86 2.0 system, with libXpm, fvwm 1.11, and xlock
added.
./xap1 - ./xap2 X applications: X11 ghostscript, libgr13, seyon, workman,
xfilemanager, xv 3.00, GNU chess and xboard, xfm 1.2,
ghostview, and various X games.
./xd1 - ./xd3 X11 program development. X11 libraries, server linkkit, PEX
support.
./xv1 - ./xv2 Xview 3.2 release 5. XView libraries, and the Open Look
virtual and non-virtual window managers.
./iv1 - ./iv2 Interviews libraries, include files, and the doc and idraw
apps. These run unreasonably slow on my machine, but they
might still be worth looking at.
./oi1 - ./oi3 ParcPlace's Object Builder 2.0 and Object Interface Library
4.0, generously made available for Linux developers according
to the terms in the "copying" notice found in these
directories.
./t1 - ./t3 TeX support. Since many people have asked about TeX, I borrowed
the 3 TeX disks from SLS and went through them changing the
filesystem structure somewhat and fixing permissions. You can
take this as a sign that Slackware TeX support may continue to
improve. :^) These disks haven't changed all that much, but
they're better than getting the stock SLS ones, and should be
helpful for people accessing ftp sites or BBSs that do not
carry SLS.
Enjoy!
---
Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
