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+From: Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
+Subject: Linux News #1 (October 5-10, 1992)
+
+
+			 L i n u x   N e w s
+
+	  A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community
+
+		 Issue #1, October 5 through 10, 1992
+
+
+		Proudly reporting on Linux since 1992!
+
+
+
+**** Editorial
+
+Linux News is an attempt at a weekly news service about what happens
+in the Linux community.  Most of the material will probably be
+announcements of new programs or versions of programs, but I will also
+cover things like new ftp sites, Linux articles in the trade press,
+and other things that Linux users should in my opinion be aware of.  I
+won't summarize individual problems and their solutions, unless they
+are severe and widespread.  I will also try to restrict announcements
+to things that are actually on the ftp sites, and meant for public
+use; testing releases will not be included (most people who are
+probable beta testers will follow comp.os.linux closely anyway).
+
+I hope that Linux News will be useful for people who want to follow
+what is happening around Linux, but don't have the time or energy to
+wade through the high volume of comp.os.linux.  Linux News will always
+have a subject like that includes "Linux News" in it, so it should be
+easy to find it.  Also, if there is enough interest, I might create a
+channel on the linux-activists mailing list, so that interested
+parties could get it via mail.
+
+The contents of Linux News will be based mainly on postings in
+comp.os.linux.  I won't include announcements on mailing lists, since
+those are usually only intended for the testers who read the lists.
+If there is something you want me to include, send it to me via mail.
+Feedback via mail is also greatly appreciated, I would especially like
+to know whether there are people who appreciate this kind of thing (if
+there are none, I will just drop this project).
+
+Note: This is only a summary, if you want more information about a
+given subject, please see the source that is referenced at the end of
+each note (for Usnet articles, the reference is the Message-ID of the
+article).  I try to include all the relevant information, including
+ftp sites and filenames, as given in the announcements (I probably
+won't have the time or energy to check these things, or to find
+pointers to other ftp sites).
+
+For this first issue, I have picked announcements (mainly based on the
+subject lines) from the past few days.  I have probably missed
+several.
+
+
+**** News items begin here. 
+
+
+October 5.  David Wexelblat announced Xfree86 version 1.1, the
+free X server for 386 Unices, including Linux.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/X11.
+   (Source: <1992Oct5.125823.16113@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>)
+
+October 5.  H.J. Lu released a bootable rootdisk.  This is not the
+same rootdisk that Jim Winstead maintains, but Jim and hlu are
+considering ways to merge the two disks.
+   The disk is based on kernel version 0.98.  It only contains a few
+of the basic binaries.  Hlu's announcement gave this partial list:
+bash, gnu tar, compress, elvis, doshell, chmod, chown, cp, ls, mv, rm,
+ln, mount, umount, swapon, more, ps, free, mkfs, mkswap, fsck, fdisk.
+There should be enough software to install Linux on a computer, but
+there is little or no documentation.  Because of this lack of
+documentation, this rootdisk is may not a good idea unless you are an
+experienced Linux user/installer.  Inexperienced users are encouraged
+to try out the MCC and SLS releases.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk.
+   (Source: <1992Oct5.201521.9644@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+October 5.  H.J. Lu released the Linux Base System, a set of three
+disk images of floppies with the Minix filesystem that contain a lot
+of software.  They are intended to be used with hlu's bootable
+rootdisk (see above), and require the 4.1 jump table shared libraries,
+since these disks don't contain the shared library images (good,
+because it saves space, bad because you need to get them from
+elsewhere).
+   Disk 1 contains /bin, /dev and /etc (but ps and friends are on the
+bootable root disk, since they are kernel dependent).  The software on
+this disk includes fileutils 3.3, shellutils 1.7, textutils 1.3, tar
+1.10, bash 1.12 (all of these are GNU packages), ldd 1.1, compress
+4.2.3, zsh 2.20, doshell, fdisk 0.93, admutil 1.3, poeigl 1.6, LILO
+0.5, and setfdprm
+   Disk 2 contains /usr, including diff 1.15, find 3.7, grep 1.6,
+fgrep 1.1, make 3.62, gawk 2.13.2, flex 2.3.7, bison 1.18, patch
+2.0.12u7, sed 1.09, elvis 1.6, minicom 1.3.2, rzsz, more, setterm, od,
+strings, and uuencode/uudecode.
+   Disk 3 is a development disk without compiler and library.  It has
+crt0.o/gcrt0.o, gdb 4.6, as, ar, gprof, ld, nm, objdump, ranlib, size,
+and strip.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/GCC/basedisk.
+   (Source: <1992Oct5.201812.9714@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+
+
+October 6.  H.J. Lu told that gcc 2.3 should be released by Richard
+Stallman in a couple of weeks, and that it has Linux support built in.
+   (Source: <1992Oct6.162001.23488@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+October 6.  Rick Sladkey released a new version of his port of GNU
+Emacs for Linux.  The new version is 8 bit clean, which is useful for
+many Europeans whose alphabet includes letters that are encoded with
+the top bit set.  It also has XMenu support for the X11 version.  It
+is compiled with libc-4.1 and lixX11-2.1.
+   Changes from the early 4.1 jump table release include TCP/IP
+support with open-network-stream, larger sharable code segment,
+compiled with jump-table library, emacsclient and server work
+correctly, full Berkeley /etc/termcap included.
+   Rick says that if you don't need the new version unless you need
+eight bit I/O, or want the X11 version.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu, nic.funet.fi, and sunsite.unc.edu (directory
+names not given in announcement, but probably the usual directories
+for binaries).  Files: emacs-4.1.tar.Z (README and diffs),
+emacs-etc-4.1.tar.Z (support programs), emacs-shared-4.1.tar.Z (non-X
+version and its DOC file), x11emacs-shared-4.1.tar.Z (X11 version and
+its DOC file).
+   (Source: <JRS.92Oct6000657@lepton.world.std.com>)
+
+
+
+October 7.  After a longish pause of three months, a new version of
+the FAQ was released by Marc Corsini.  It was both posted to the
+newsgroup, and sent to FTP sites.  The FAQ maintenance has been
+divided among several people, with the hope of making it possible to
+release new versions more often.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/doc/FAQ_10_05
+   (Source: <1992Oct7.175825.1127@athena.mit.edu>)
+
+October 7.  H.J. Lu released a port of ispell 3.09 for Linux.  Ispell
+is a spelling checker modelled after the ITS spelling checker.  It can
+run both interactively, in batch mode (similar to Unix spell), and
+under GNU Emacs.  Hlu distributes his port as a disk image.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/GCC/basedisk/ispell309.Z
+   (Source: <1992Oct7.165002.11433@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+
+
+October 8.  Peter MacDonald announced that the new version of the SLS
+release (based on the 0.98 kernel) has been uploaded to tsx-11, and
+that a proper announcement will be made shortly, after a few people
+have tested it.
+   (Source: <1992Oct8.223711.496@athena.mit.edu>)
+
+
+
+October 9.  H.J. Lu released gccdisk, a repackaged gcc 2.2.2d7.  This
+is not a new version: there are no changes to the compiler or
+libraries, it is only intended as an easier way to install things.
+Gccdisk is meant to be used with the Linux C library disk (see earlier
+note), because gccdisk does not include any shared library images that
+are necessary to run the programs (they use jump table 4.1).
+   There are two disk images of Minix filesystem floppies.  The first
+one includes gcc, cpp, cc1, and crt0.o/gcrt0.o, and some header files
+for /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2d/include.  The second disk has
+cc1plus.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/GCC/gccdisk
+   (Source: <1992Oct9.040521.7441@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+October 9.  H.J. Lu released a Linux C library disk, with version 4.1
+of the library.  Like the gccdisk, this is only a repackage, not a new
+version.
+   Libdisk consists of two disk images of Minix filesystem floppies.
+The first disk contains the shared library images and a few libraries,
+the second one has the header files and the rest of the libraries.  To
+get all the required header files, you also need Linux kernel source
+(0.97 pl 6 or above), since some of the header files contain kernel
+version specific information (so those headers are part of the kernel
+sources of the version that they belong to).
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/GCC/libdisk
+   (Source: <1992Oct9.040653.7509@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+October 9.  David Johnson told that he had hacked gnuplot 3.2 for X11
+under Linux, and had sent the source code to tsx-11; he did not
+provide binaries due to an old compiler and slow upload connections.
+   Leon Dent reported that the patches for 3.1 with VGA also worked
+for him with 3.2.
+   (Source: <1992Oct9.053806.29092@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>)
+
+October 9.  H.J. Lu released a new version of his bootable rootdisk.
+This version is based on kernel version 0.98 pl 1, and also updates
+compress to 4.2.4.
+   There were some problems with corrupt versions on tsx-11, but they
+should be corrected by now.  If you downloaded before this date, and
+are having problems, you might want to try downloading again.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk
+   (Sources: <1992Oct9.062632.10646@serval.net.wsu.edu>,
+<1992Oct9.184533.18763@serval.net.wsu.edu>)
+
+October 9.  Bruno Haible announced that CLISP, a Common Lisp
+implementation, is available for Linux.  He says it is mostly CLtL1
+compliant.
+   The files are packed with LHA, so you need a copy of that to
+unpack them.
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/lisp, and
+ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.115.2]:/pub/lisp/clisp/linux
+(this latter one is will always contain the newest version).
+   (Source: <1992Oct9.230722.27309@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)
+
+
+
+October 10.  Bruno Haible announced a port of MAXIMA for Linux.  It is
+an implementation of Macsyma in Lisp by Bill Schelter, and requires
+CLISP (see above).
+   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/lisp
+   (Source: <1992Oct10.010541.22905@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)