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diff --git a/linux-news-8 b/linux-news-8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9162d78 --- /dev/null +++ b/linux-news-8 @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ +From: Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius) +Subject: Linux News #8 (November 28 - December 19, 1992) + + + L i n u x N e w s + + A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community + + Issue #8, November 28 through December 19, 1992 + + + + + + + +**** Highlights in this issue + +- kernel now at 0.99 +- new newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce, comp.windows.x.i386unix +- the end of Linux News? +- mpeg-1.1 +- deliver +- TeX sources for Linux +- Lilo 0.7 +- xgraph +- efsprogs alpha 11 +- xphoon +- Newspak 1.1 +- ckermit +- mawk +- Seyon 1.5 +- Xcomm +- Epoch 4.2 +- SLS updates + + +**** Editorial + +In case you haven't noticed, I'm unusually late with this issue, about +three weeks. Sorry about that. Due to the large number of things +that I had saved for inclusion, and my chronic lack of time, I have +had to keep things very short in this issue, and have also skipped +unusually many things. + +Probably the biggest news at the moment is that "1.0 is coming, are +you ready?". Well, actually there is not that much to be ready about, +since 1.0 will not introduce many changes from the current kernel. +Unless you are dedicated into building your system from scratch, +you'll probably be best of with the SLS release, and if you update +your system to that, you can be fairly certain of having a +well-working system. + +Two other quite important things are two new newsgroups: +comp.os.linux.announce, and comp.windows.x.i386unix. If you don't +have the time to read all of comp.os.linux, but want to stay up to +date with what is happening with Linux (and are disgusted with the +delays with LN :), read that group. Also, if you have something to +announce that is of general interest for the Linux community, do it in +c.o.l.a. (Nice acronym, eh?) C.o.l.a will be gatewayed to a +mailing-list for those without Usenet access sometime in the future. + +The splitting vote for comp.os.linux failed to create the other +proposed groups. There will not be a new vote until at least six +months have passed since the previous one. + +Comp.windows.x.i386unix is intended for discussions about X on 386 +Unices, including Linux. It is a good idea to use it instead of +comp.os.linux for such discussions, since there is quite enough of +traffic in c.o.l as it is. + +Last, and probably least, I'm looking for a volunteer to take over +Linux News. I don't seem to be able to have enough time to do it +often enough and well enough, so I'd like to hand it over to somebody +else. Mail me if you are willing. I'd like somebody who has been +using Linux actively for some time so that she (or he :-) has some +understanding of what is going on and what various things are. +Alternatively, I might change LN into a non-periodic thing and only +publish and issue every few weeks or months, and include more articles +and less news items. (Might have to change the name too, then.) + + +**** Legalese + +Linux News can be copied, re-published, printed, hung on walls, used +as toilet paper, and used in any other way you wish. If you +distribute LN outside comp.os.linux and the LINUXNEWS channel, please +tell me: the more people I know are reading LN, the more eager I am to +put energy into it. + +I take no responsibility whatsoever for any information in Linux News, +or any problems due lack of information. If you get killed due to +Linux News, mail me, and I'll feel sorry for you, but that's just +about all I can do. + + +**** Notices + +Linux News 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 Usenet 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 filenames, or to find pointers +to other ftp sites). If possible, I will try to indicate directories +with a trailing /, e.g. ``pub/linux/SLS/''. + +I won't include announcements on mailing lists or testing releases, +only things that are meant to be used generally (I admit that the line +can be somewhat difficult to draw, since the whole system is +pre-release). There will be exceptions. + + +**** News section + + +November 30. Scott A. Laird announced an upload of MPEG-1.1. It is a +program for viewing "movies" in the MPEG compressed format. Needs X. +Scott says he gets about 8 frames per second on a 486DX2/50 with ATI +Graphics Ultra, so it is probably not particularly fast on a 386SX... + FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu (binary), toe.cs.berkeley.edu: +/pub/multimedia/mpeg/ (source). + (Source: <1992Nov30.070546.23765@midway.uchicago.edu>) + + +December 8. Matthew Donadio announced binaries for Deliver for Linux. +It is a program which delivers electronic mail once it has arrived at +a given machine. + FTP: sunsite.unc.edu: deliver.TZ + (Source: <1992Dec8.173324.19957@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 8. Thomas Dunbar announced Linux TeX source upload. + FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: /pub/linux/packages/TeX, files web2c.taz +(essential things) and texweb.taz (misc source). + (Source: <1992Dec8.191750.22643@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 7. Werner Almesberger announced Lilo 0.7. Lilo is the Linux +Loader, the set of programs that allows Linux to boot from a hard disk. + FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: pub/linux/packages/lilo, files lilo.7.tar.Z +(sources for programs and docs), lilo.7.ps.Z (docs in PostScript +format). + (Source: <1992Dec7.062414.6307@bernina.ethz.ch>) + + +December 7. Isaac Wong announced xgraph for Linux. It is a +two-dimensional plotting program. + FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: xgraph.taz (source and binary). + (Source: <1992Dec7.193518.21471@netcom.com>) + + +December 9. Remy Card announced version alpha 11 of the extended +filesystem support programs. + FTP: ftp-masi.ibp.fr: /pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs/, tsx-11.mit.edu. + (Source: <1992Dec9.172910.22669@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 10. David Peterson announced binaries for xphoon. It is a + FTP: sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu: phoonbin.tar.Z. + (Source: <1992Dec10.160753.22094@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 11. Vince Skahan announced Newspak-1.1. It is a set of +programs for setting up a Usenet site. It includes cnews, tin, trn, +and nn. It doesn't include UUCP or other networking, which you need +from elsewhere. + FTP: sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/System/news/ + (Source: <1992Dec11.170805.22139@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 12. hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil announced ckermit5A(188) +and mawk 1.1.2 binaries upload. ckermit is a terminal / file +transmission program, mawk is an implementation of the AWK language. + FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: ckermit5A.188.tar.Z, mawk1.1.2bin.tar.Z + (Source: <1992Dec12.053016.6610@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 13. Linus released version 0.99 of the kernel. This +version should have all the functionality of 1.0, and should only be +changed to fix bugs before 1.0, which will hopefully be released +before the end of the year. + There were a couple of problems with 0.99, fixed by small patches +posted by Linus. + FTP: nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus: linux-0.99.tar.Z + (Source: <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 13. M. Saggaf announced Seyon 1.5. It is a terminal program +for X. + FTP: sipb.mit.edu: /pub/seyon; also export.lcs.mit.edu, +nic.funet.fi, and sunsite.unc.edu. + (Source: <1992Dec13.194528.7230@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 14. Jeff Randall announced Xcomm patchlevel 5. It is a +terminal program. + FTP: xcomm3b-L1.5.src.tar.Z, xcomm3b-L1.5.bin.tar.Z + (Source: <1992Dec14.191822.12572@tc.cornell.edu>) + + +December 14. Thomas Dunbar uploaded a binary of Epoch-4.2. It is an +X version of GNU Emacs. + FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: /pub/linux/packages/TeX/epoch42.taz + (Source: <10438@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>) + + +December 18. Ian Jackson announced archives of +comp.os.linux.announce, up to December 17. + FTP: nic.funet.fi, tsx-11.mit.edu, ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, +sunsite.unc.edu, fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de, ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de, +ftp.win.tue.nl, ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de, ftp.uni-kl.de. + (Source: <1992Dec18.194443.2246@tc.cornell.edu>) + +Lotsa dates. Peter MacDonald has been updating SLS fairly often. +The changes include: nfs and shadow password support, the syslogd +daemon, ghostscript, mailpak, and the 0.99 kernel. + Check the HISTORY file on ftp sites for more information. |