Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 21:53:31 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: guest account: Yggdrasil information Message-ID: <2979.789285211@time.cdrom.com>
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This will take a little while to read and believe me, I know how much
mail most of you get, but it's nonetheless worth slogging all the way
through it. Yes, most of it is unabashed sales hype. Ignore that and
concentrate on the features list. I have this CD and it's not lying
about the degree of flexibility it provides. NetBSD is not the
competition. This is. When and where we can match some of these
features (and I not only think we can, I KNOW we can!), we should
strive to do so! I certainly will be!
Thanks!
Jordan
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Subject: Yggdrasil information
YGGDRASIL PLUG-AND-PLAY LINUX
SUMMER 1994
CONTENTS: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
Executive Summary 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
New Features San Jose, CA 95129-1034
About The Company (408) 261-6630, fax (408) 261-6631
Highlights info@yggdrasil.com
Product Philosophy
What Makes Plug-and-Play Linux Easy To Use?
Software Version Numbers
Hardware Compatability
How to get a free copy
How to get a copy by tomorrow
Subscriptions
Upgrades and Crossgrades
The Linux Bible
OSF/Motif
Resellers and Technical Support Vendors Wanted
Technical Support
Direct sales order form
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 17 MAY 1994
SAN JOSE, California---Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated has
shipped a Linux-based operating system release that includes a
fully buildable source tree, hybrid hard disk/CDROM
installation, and numerous automated internet connectivity
features, including graphical SLIP configuration and automated
delivery of outgoing mail to the internet through a relay
machine set up for this purpose at Yggdrasil.
The new $39.95 release has actually been shipping since May
12, but Yggdrasil delayed announcing until it could fill
unexpectedly large advance orders from resellers who had been
given advance product information. The company now expects to
have a unit volume for this release of at least one quarter
that of Novell UnixWare.
Yggdrasil also expanded its product line with OSF/Motif for
Linux and an eight hundred page book entitled "The Linux Bible"
that includes the collected works of the Linux Documentation
Project, which is not part of Yggdrasil, but which will
receive a donation of one dollar per copy, plus a second
dollar on direct sales. In addition, $5 per copy of OSF/Motif
will be donated to the development of a free Motif clone,
which is the subject of a separate announcement.
For more information, contact Cyndi June at (408) 261-6630,
fax (408) 261-6631, or send email to info@yggdrasil.com.
PRESS CONTACT: Adam J. Richter
(408) 261-6630
NEW FEATURES
ARCHITECTURAL
o FULLY BUILDABLE SOURCE TREE. Rebuild the whole system with
"cd /usr/src ; make install-clean". Use the new "whence"
command find source code for a file. For example:
% whence csh
/usr/bin/tcsh: linux dynamically linked
/usr/bin/tcsh installed from /usr/src/usr.bin/tcsh-6.04/tcsh
o HYBRID INSTALLATION. Any software not found on your hard
disk is run from the CDROM if the CD is mounted. Useful for
infrequently used programs or for trying out software before
deciding whether or not to install it.
o TRANSPARENT COMPRESSION. CD looks like a 1GB+ filesystem.
PERFORMANCE
o SCSI clustering, multisector IDE (turned off
by default). Most binaries, including the entire X window
system, the kernel, the C compiler, and emacs compiled with
"-O6." SCSI clustering alone seems to have reduced the build
time on the source tree on a 486DX2-66 from 28 hours to 22.
o Cd dependent installation now puts the shared C library and bash
on the hard disk, accelerating execution of almost all binaries
and shell scripts. CD dependent configuration now uses 4MB of
disk and is actually a bit of a misnomer because you *can* run
it without the CD mounted, although you will be able to do little
more than mount the CD.
INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
o INTERNET SHELL ACCESS up to 1 month or $40 (about 20 hours)
with a major New England internet provider. If you're not
in New England, you can save on the long distance charges by
using the CompuServe from most populated areas of the world.
(CompuServe-Net, AT&T and other phone bills are *not*
included in the free service). You must be 18 or older,
because the service has some "adult" areas. You must sign
the credit card authorization for usage after the first
$40 or first month, although it is perfectly OK to cancel
after your free time has expired.
o ET PHONE HOME. The system automatically delivers internet
mail through the Yggdrasil BBS! (Of course, people cannot
reply to your email.) The install script even attempts to
figure out where your modem is. You must have UUCP
installed or accessible from the CDROM, and you must have
the system installed on your hard disk. Configuring
ethernet with the graphical control panel switches
internet email to direct delivery. This release should
make it easy for anyone to send email to the internet.
o Graphical control panels for incoming InterNetNews (NNTP),
outgoing UUCP, and serial internet connections by SLIP or
CSLIP, preconfigured with sample values, so you just change
a few fields and press "save." This should save you a lot
of time and work if you're connecting to the internet.
These are in addition to the existing graphical control
panels. Screen snapshots in that illustrate the graphical
control panel and multimedia email features are FTPable from
yggdrsail.com:
X windows screen dumps:
ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/pictures/*.xwd
View with "xwud -in file.xwd"
GIF files:
ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/pictures/*.gif
View with "display *.gif" (if you use ImageMagic), or
"xv *.gif" (if you use xv).
You can also have these images shown on your internet
color X display by logging into yggdrasil.com as "rdemo".
o MULTIMEDIA EMAIL. When you log in as "guest", and start X
windows, you are reminded to read multimedia email with Andrew
"messages", which comes preconfigured with a sample
multimedia email message. The message includes hyperlinks
to some documentation and a picture of Saturn. Multimedia
email is delivered just like regular email, so you can, for
example, send mail to the internet and they will be routed
through the Yggdrasil BBS for delivery. If you've put off
learning a multimedia email system, this is an easy way to
take the plunge.
MISCELLANEOUS
o Linux 1.1 kernel, X11R5 Xfree86 2.1 installed plus pristine
X11R6 (Xfree86 3.0) tar files, GCC 2.5.8, libc 4.5.26.
o A response card for a free copy THE LINUX JOURNAL.
o MOTIF: Locked copy of MetroLink Motif on the CD (also
available on floppies) costs $149.95 per CPU. For each copy
that we sell, $5 is donated to the development of a free
motif clone. Ours is the only Linux Motif with a simple
no-nonsense license statement instead of one of those
ridiculous shrinkwrap licenses.
PRICE CUT
o $49.95 --> $39.95. Reseller prices cut too.
o Upgrade or crossgrade. Send us a complete copy of any
previous Yggdrasil release and deduct another $10 from your
order. Alternatively, deduct $10 if you send us a complete
copy of any competing product *and* tell us where you bought
it so that we can make sure that your favorite computer
store also carries our products.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
In December 1992, Yggdrasil published the first free operating
system CDROM ever. Since then, Yggdrasil distributions have
been the first operating sytems to include as standard the
ability to run directly from CDROM, multimedia facilities
(editting, mail, sound IO), "fill in the blanks" graphical
control panels for system administration, and now, with the
Summer 1994 release, reconfigurable hybrid hard disk/CDROM
installation, transparent decompression of the CDROM, and
numerous automated internet connectivity features, including
graphical SLIP and InterNetNews configuration, automated email
configuration, and automatic routing of outgoing internet mail
through the Yggdrasil bulletin board system. Yggdrasil
releases have only about a quarter of the unit volume of
Novell UnixWare or NeXTStep, but Yggdrasil is catching up, and
has already passed many smaller operating systems.
Yggdrasil's growth helps the free software community. To help
fund the Free Software Foundation, Yggdrasil resells FSF
manuals. Yggdrasil funded improvements in the seagate SCSI
driver, and the development of the z5380 scsi driver used in
Trantors and adapted by others to the MediaVision
ProAudioSpectrum-16. These improvements were returned to
Linus Torvald's Linux kernel distribution. Yggdrasil made the
deals that insured freeness of the iso9660 filesystem writer
and Mitsumi CDROM programming information. $1 The Linux
Bible's price supports the Linux Documentation Project. $5
per copy of Motif purchased from Yggdrasil goes to the
development of a free Motif clone. Yggdrasil supports the
future of free software, part of which involves creating the
world's best operating system.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com.
HIGHLIGHTS
Linux 1.1 kernel supporting most popular CDROM drives,
an easy-to-use installation script, plus a graphical user
interface for system configuration,
The X Window System: X11R5 Xfree86 2.1 installed plus the
pristine X11R6 distribution tar files. Xlib/Xt X windows
libraries, the Tcl/Tk programming language and toolkit, the
Xview 3.2 OpenLook(tm) toolkit, InterViews C++ toolkit,
The Andrew System: version 6.2, including the ez editor for
easy creation and reading of documents with imbedded images,
equations, spreadsheets, hypertext links, and many other media
types.
Networking with TCP/IP, NFS and other Internet protocols.
Games: asteroids, battle zone, chess, mille bornes, othello,
pool, shogi, solitaire, tetris, and connect four.
Multimedia: viewers for JPEG, GIF, TIFF and other image formats,
MPEG video, sound,
Text editors: the elvis vi clone, GNU Emacs with calc mode,
and Lucid GNU Emacs (better graphical user interface).
Desktop Publishing: TeX and groff typesetting packages with X
previewers, and ghostscript, a postscript interpreter for X
windows, faxes and a variety of printers,
Telecommunications: Z-modem, Taylor UUCP, mail reader,
threaded USENET News reader, with support for reading MIME
multimedia messages with imbedded images, full motion video
and sound.
the Postgres 4.1 remote database system,
Programming Languages: GNU C++, GNU ANSI C, FORTRAN-to-C and
Pascal-to-C translators, and Prolog,
Enhanced development environment: GNU debugger, bison, flex,
GNU make, the GNU Coverage Tool, Revision Controls System,
Concurrent Version System, and Gnats,
System V-style shared memory and interprocess communication,
File Systems: a filesystem with long file names, symbolic
links, and FIFO's, System V, DOS, and iso9660/rockridge CDROM
filesystems.
Emulators: a BIOS emulator that can run DOS, an experimental
ELF loader, and a snapshot of the WABI Windows emulator under
development.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com.
PRODUCT PHILOSOPHY
At each level of user sophistication, Plug-and-Play Linux
offers useful capabilities found in few other operating
systems, including other Linux distributions.[1]
At the top of the sophistication hierarchy, programmers who
want to explore or add the occasional feature know that
Yggdrasil is the Linux distribution with a fully buildable
source tree and with the ability to automatically trace
installed files back to their sources. Can you imagine
recompiling the whole operating system to use a new compiler
optimization or binary format on a distribution without a
buildable source tree?
Users who want maximum performance will appreciate that the
major system components have been recompiled with "-O6"
optimization, and the SCSI clustering which reduces the build
time on the source tree from 28 to 22 hours (over 20%) on
486DX2-66. Using IDE? Activate the multisector IDE code!
New users or will appreciate the our 94 page manual, the
largest of any Linux distribution, complete with screen
snapshots of the install process, charts on hardware, software
options, device names, and tips on hardware troubleshooting,
among other things. The manual is also FTPable from
yggdrasil.com:/pub/summer94/manual/*.
A characteristic that benefits everybody, but is especially
important to new users and users who value their time highly,
is plug-and-play installation, which is the subject of the
next section: "What Makes Plug-and-Play Linux So Easy To Use?"
[1] Due credit: This philosophy was inspired by Guy Kawasaki's
description of "deep" products in his concise insightful book,
"The Macintosh Way." Boycott Apple, but read this book.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com.
WHAT MAKES PLUG-AND-PLAY LINUX SO EASY TO USE?
Everybody, especially new users, will appreciate the
Plug-and-Play operation for which our product is named. Put
the media in a computer with supported hardware, turn the
computer on, and it's running everything, straight from the
CDROM. Unlike other Linux distributions, Plug-and-Play Linux
automatically figures out what kind of CDROM is on the system,
and uses it.
The login screen lists a number of preconfigured user names,
including "install", which installs the system, giving
paragraphs of explanation about every question that it asks the
user. The install script even searches for a modem, and, upon
finding it, configures mail and UUCP so that mail sent to an
internet address is transparently delivered through a bulletin
board system at Yggdrasil.
X windows configuration is automated too, prompting the user
for configuration information the first time "xinit" is run. The
configuration script automatically chooses sensible defaults
based on what type of video display and what type of mouse, if
any, the kernel detected at start-up.
From X windows, a graphical control panel allows simple "fill
in the blanks" configuration of networking, SLIP, outgoing
UUCP, the printer, NNTP, and many other features that
previously required the knowledge of a system administrator to
configure.
Even day to day operating is simpler with Plug-and-Play Linux.
A computer should not ask you for information that it can
easily figure out for itself. With Plug-and-Play Linux, when
you mount a device without specifying the filesystem type,
the system automatically figures out what kind of filesystem
is on the device and uses it. Device drivers in Plug-and-Play
Linux don't print messages announcing the absence of hardware
that you don't have, and they don't interrupt you with
information about routine retries (turning on debugging will,
of course, make both of these things happen).
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
SOFTWARE VERSION NUMBERS San Jose, CA 95129-1024
(408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631
info@yggdrasil.com
Here is a list of version numbers of most software packages in
Plug-and-Play Linux. A complete "ls -lR" of the CDROM is FTPable from
yggdrasil.com:pub/summer94/ls-lR.
acct-1.3 gnuchess-4.0.pl68 reve-1.4.0
adagio-0.4o gnugo-1.1 rlogin-5.33
agrep-2.04 gnuplot-3.5 rlogind-5.53
andrew-6.2 gnushogi-1.1 routed-5.23
archie-1.4.1-FIX grep-2.0 rpc-1.00
at-1.1 groff-1.09 rsh-5.24
auis-6.2 gwm-1.7o rshd-5.38
aumix-0.2 gzip-1.2.4 ruptime-5.70
autoconf-1.9 hfs-0.2 rwho-5.50
bash-1.13.5 host-1.01 rwhod-5.19
bbgopher-1.6 ibcs-940419 sed-2.03
bc-1.02 ifs-5 shellutils-1.9.4
bin86-0.1 ImageMagic-2.3.2 smail-3.1.28
bind-4.83l inetd-5.30 smalltalk-1.1.1
binutils-1.9l.3 inn-1.4 sound-2.4
bison-1.22 InterViews-3.1 sox-7
blt-1.5 ismodem-1.00 strace-2
bootlin-4 ispell-4.0 syslogd-5.27
bootpd-2.10a itcl-1.3 talk-5.50a
byacc-1.9 IV-2_6 talkd-5.80
capture-1.00 joystick-0.7 tar-1.11.2
cbzone-1.00 jpeg-4a tcl-7.3
cdwrite-1.0 kbd-0.86 tclX-7.3a
checker-0.4 kterm-5.2.0 tcpd-1.40
checklinks-1.00 ld.so-1.4.3 tcsh-6.04
cluster-1.00 lemacs-19.9 telnet-5.52
cpio-2.3 less-177 term-1.1.4
cron-2.0 lha-1.00 texinfo-3.1
cvs-1.3 libc-4.5.26 textutils-1.9
dc-0.2 libc_s-940330 tftp-5.10
dejagnu-1.2 libg++-2.5.3 tftpd-5.13
devX100-12 lilo-14 tiff-3.2beta
devX75-12 linux-1.1 time-1.5
diffutils-2.6 lpd-5.90 tk-3.6p1
dip-3.3.7-lilo-3.2 m4-1.1 tkinfo-0.6
dlltools-2.11 mailx-5.3b tknews-1.2b
dosemu-0.50pl1 majordomo-1.62 tput-1.0
dosfsck-1.0 make-3.70 trn-3.2
double-0.0 malloc-930716 UIT-3
dvips-5.518 man-1.1 umsdos-0.2
e2fsprogs-0.5 metamail-2.6 usermaint-1.0
elm-2.4 minicom-1.60 util-linux-1.5
elvis-1.7 mkdosfs-0.2 uucp-1.04-doc
emacs-19.22 mkisofs-1.01 uucp-1.04-erc
f2c-1994.April.20 mm-1.07 uuencode-1.0
file-1.25 modutils-0.99.14 vacation-1.00
fileutils-3.9 mpeg-1.2 wais-8-b5.1
find-3.8 mule-1.0.01 wdiff-0.04
finddev-1.0 ncompress-4.2.4 wine-940412
finger-5.22 ncurses-1.8.5 WorkBone-0.1
fingerd-5.60 net-0.32 wu-ftpd-2.1c
fips-0.8 nfsd-1.50 x-11r5
flex-2.4.6 nntpd-15.11a x-11r6
fromto-1.01 oleo-1.5 xaster-1.00
ftape-0.9.10 olvwm-3.3 xbmbrowser-2.0
ftp-5.38 p2c-1.20 xboard-3.0.pl9
fvwm-1.21c patch-2.1 xdos-0.3f
gas-2.2 pbmplus-10dec91 xfree86-2.1
gawk-2.15.4 pcnfsd-1.40 xfree86-3.0
gcc-2.5.8 perl-4.036 xgopher-1.3.2
gct-1.4 pine-3.89 xpipeman-1.01
gdb-4.12 ping-5.90 xpm-3.2f
gdbm-1.7.1 poeigl-1.11 xpool-1.3
ghostscript-2.6.1pl4 popd-10.01 xrisk-2.14
ghostview-1.5 postbrowse-0.1 XSBprolog-1.2
gic-1.1 postgres-4.1 xshogi-1.1
glib-1.9e procps-0.94 xtank-1.3f
gmod-1.0 quota-1.31 xtetris-2.5.2
gmp-1.3.2 rcp-5.32 xvier-1.0
gn-1.19 rcs-5.6.0.1 xview-3.2
gnat-1.78 readlink-1.00 zlibc-0.3
gnats-3.2 realpath-1.0
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
HARDWARE COMPATABILITY 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
PLUG-AND-PLAY LINUX San Jose, CA 95129-1024
SUMMER 1994 (408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631
info@yggdrasil.com
System RAM: 4MB (8MB without swap partition), CPU: 386 or above, Bus:
ISA, EISA, or localbus.
Disk IDE, RLL, MFM, ESDI, SCSI @strong{with supported SCSI controller}.
Configurations range from 3 to 1,028 megabytes of disk.
Configurations without non-kernel source tree that can run
without the CDROM range from 35 to 300 megabytes. Hard disk
can be shared with other operating systems on separate
partitions.
Tape SCSI tape with supported SCSI controller. Experimental (i.e.,
unsupported) driver for floppy tape.
CDROM Sony CDU-31A, SoundBlaster-compatible CDROM's, Mitsumi, any
SCSI CDROM with supported SCSI controller, experimental Sony
531 and 535 driver.
SCSI Adaptec 154x, and 174x in enhanced mode, Bustek 542B,
Future Domain 8xx, or 16xx, other controllers based on the
TMC-950 chip, Ultrastor, Trantor T128. Experimental: other
Trantors, Always in-2000, Adaptec AIC 6260 ship (151x/152x
boards), Seagate ST-01/ST02, MediaVision and Creative Labs
sound cards.
Video (For X windows.)
640x480 16-colors for any VGA card, 256 colors and resolutions
up to 1280x1024 (for sufficiently fast hardware) for the
following chipsets: S3 801/805/911/924/928, 8514, Tseng
ET3000/ET4000, Oak oti-067/077/087, Western Digital
90c00/90c10/90c30/90c31, Genoa, ATI Mach8/Mach32, Trident
8900b/c/cl/cs, Cirrus Logic 5420/5422/5426/62x5, NCR
77c22/77c22e, or Compaq AVGA. Hercules monochrome. Diamond
cards not supported.
Sound Adlib, SoundBlaster, MediaVision, and compatibles.
Installable Gravis Ultrasound and MPU-401 drivers are also
included. PC speaker is used if sound card is not present.
Ethernet Novell NE1000/NE2000/NE2100, 3Com 3c501, 3c503, 3c509, 3c579,
AT1500, T1700, D-Link DE600 pocket adapter and ethernet II,
AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter, Artisoft LANtastic AE-2,
Alta Combo, Cabletron, Hewlett-Packard 27245, 27247, 27250
and PCLAN, Western Digital 8003 and 8013, other 8390-based
ethernet cards.
HOW TO GET A FREE COPY
Yggdrasil is greatly indebted to the many free software
developers whose efforts have made this release possible. As a token
of our appreciation, any author of any software or documentation in
Plug-and-Play Linux can get a free copy. Operators of free Linux
BBS's or Linux FTP sites and other major contributors to the Linux
community can also get a free copy. We request that Linux BBS
operators and FTP sites carry the Plug-and-Play Linux announcement in
the appropriate forums, however this request is optional.
HOW TO GET A COPY BY TOMORROW
[updated 2 June 1994]
Plug-and-Play Linux costs $39.95 is and available directly
from Yggdrasil or from your local computer, software or technical book
store. If Plug-and-Play Linux is not available from your favorite
reseller, help promote Linux by making it your mission to change that.
Give your reseller our phone number and demand that they carry
Plug-and-Play Linux. If you live in the United States, the $5
shipping and handling charge on direct orders includes Second Day Air
delivery. For only another $1 you can get Next Day Air delivery,
which means that if your order is received before 3:30pm Pacific Time
(6:30pm Eastern Time), you can have Plug-and-Play Linux in your hands
the next business morning. This $1 shipping upgrade does not apply to
orders that include the Linux Bible. For those orders, the total shipping
charge for Next Day Air Delivery is $11 (i.e., $6 extra). To order,
call (800) 261-6630 or fax the attached order form to (408) 261-6631.
International orders take more than a day of course, and
shipping is $10. To place an international order, call (408)
261-6630, fax to the order form to (408) 261-6631, or send email to
orders@yggdrasil.com.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Plug-and-Play Linux is released quarterly. Update
subscriptions are available and start with the release following the
release that is current when your subscription order is received. For
example, an update subscription ordered today would begin with the
Fall 1994 release. Prices for update subscriptions are as follows:
1 year (4 releases) $ 99.95
2 years (8 releases) $179.95
3 years (12 releases) $249.95
UPGRADES AND CROSSGRADES
Yggdrasil offers a $10 discount for upgrades or crossgrades.
Send us your old Yggdrasil release and a check for $29.95 + $5
shipping and handling to upgrade. Or do the same, but send us a
competing distribution such any version of SCO, Esix, minix, or one of
the CD's with the slackware floppy images, and tell us where you got
it, so that we can make sure that your favorite reseller carries our
products too.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
THE LINUX BIBLE San Jose, CA 95129-1024
(408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631
info@yggdrasil.com
The Linux Bible is a compendium of documents produced by The
Linux Documentation Project, a group of volunteer Linux developers.
The Linux Bible also includes a copy of the Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux
manual.
These documents in the Linux Bible include "Linux
Installation and Getting Started", "Networking Administator's
Guide", "Kernel Hackers Guide", and "How To" guides on the
following subjects:
o Hardware Compatibility
o Linux Distributions
o DOS Emulation
o Ethernet
o Floppy Tape
o Installation
o Mail
o Linux Networking Version 2
o MGR Graphics System (an alternative to X windows)
o X-windows
o Usenet News
o Printing
o SCSI
o Serial
o Sound
o UUCP
The Linux Bible is printed entirely on recycled paper, and has
the green recycled paper logo printed on the back cover. The back
cover also has quotations from the PC Week article naming Linux as product
of the week.
The front of the Linux Bible has artwork that is almost
identical to Plug-and-Play Linux, so the two products are a matched set.
The back cover has both UPC and ISBN barcodes for easy inventory
management.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
OSF/Motif 1.2.x San Jose, CA 95129-1024
(408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631
info@yggdrasil.com
Yggdrasil Computing resells OSF/Motif 1.2.3 and donates $5 per
copy to the development of a free Motif clone. We are in contact with
developers in Protvino, Russia. Our business plan for Motif
development is still in its formulative stages, and calls for
sending these developers three Linux workstations and paying them
salaries of approximately $200 per month for two years. If your
organization would like to become involved in funding this work,
please contact us and perhaps we can develop a more formal
consortium to run and publicize this project.
Besides currently being the only distribution that supports
the development of a free Motif clone, our distribution is also the
only one with a simple no-nonsense license statement instead of those
ridiculous ``shrink wrap'' licenses that cast a legal shadow over any
type of reverse engineering. Our no nonsense license statement reads
as follows:
OSF/Motif is proprietary software. Copying of this software
is restricted by United States copyright law and international
treaties. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a
book, with the following single exception. You are authorized
to make archival copies of this software for the sole purpose
of backing-up the software to protect your investment from loss.
For the purposes of this license, ``just like a book'' means,
for example, that this software may be used by any number of
people and may be freely moved from one computer location to
another so long as there is no possibility of it being used at
one location while it's being used at another. Just like a
book that can't be read by two different people in two
different places at the same time, neither can the software be
used by two different people in two different places at the
same time.
The version of Motif that we currently resell is OSF/Motif
1.2.3 from MetroLink. The package consists of four floppy disks and
five pages of installation notes in a sealed Mead ``envelok'' folder.
We are developing nicer packaging.
There is also a locked copy of OSF/Motif on the Yggdrasil
Plug-and-Play Linux distribution.
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
San Jose, CA 95129-1024
(408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631
info@yggdrasil.com
RESELLERS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT VENDORS WANTED
Yggdrasil Computing is always looking for resellers and
technical support vendors. If you would like to carry or offer
services for our products, please contact us by any convenient
method.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Yggdrasil Computing offers an extensive array of technical
support services, detailed below. In addition, we also sell "The
Linux Bible", an 800+ page book, which is comprised of the works
of the Linux Documentation Project, including 16 "How To" guides
on hardware compatability, linux distributions, dos emulation,
ethernet, floppy tape, installation, mail, networking version 2,
MGR graphics system, X-windows, usenet news, printing, SCSI,
serial, sound, and uucp.
Service Price
Consulting Hotline $2.95/minute
1-900-446-6075 ext. 835 ("TEK")
$2.95/minute, USA only
10am-noon,1:45pm-5pm Pacific
Fixed Price Hotline* $25 per call
Personal Technical Support $100 for 1 year or 1 engineer-hour
Business Technical Support [machines+people+contacts] x $60/month
Releases On Demand $500
General Technical Services $300/engineer-hour
Development Contracts $400/estimated engineer-hour
*New experimental service.
The Plug-and-Play Linux manual lists vendors offering support
services related to the Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X distribution. If you or
your business would like to offer a service related to Plug-and-Play
Linux, send a description of your business and contact information to
adam@yggdrasil.com.
DIRECT SALES ORDER FORM
SHIP TO: ______________________________
______________________________
DAYTIME PHONE: _______________
______________________________
EMAIL: _______________________
______________________________
Item Quantity Price(US$)
Plug-and-Play Linux ____ X $39.95 = $_______
(CDROM, 3.5" boot floppy, 90 page manual)
Update Subscriptions starting with following release):
1 year update subscription (4 releases) ____ X $99.95 = $_______
2 year update subscription (8 releases) ____ X $179.95 = $_______
The Linux Bible (800 pages: kernel hacking, ____ X $39.95 = $_______
networking, installation, over a dozen "How To" guides, and more!)
OSF/Motif for Linux ____ X $149.95 = $_______
For Walnut CDROM titles, call.
Prime Time Freeware for unix ____ X $59.95 = $_______
Double speed CDROM drive and controller ____ X $199.95 = $_______
Personal Technical Support ____ X $100.00 = $_______
(1 year/1 engineering hour)
SUBTOTAL $_______
California residents add 7% to help out with sales tax $_______
Shipping & handling (US: $5, elsewhere: $10) $_______
TOTAL $_______
Payment method: __ payment enclosed __ COD (USA only)
__ credit card (America Express or Optima. Call before
using VISA, Mastercard or other credit card.)
Your name as it appears on credit card: _______________________________
Brand of credit card: ________ Card number: _________________________
Signature:______________________________________ Expiration: ___ / ___
SHIPPING ADDRESS MUST MATCH CREDIT CARD BILLING ADDRESS
Offers subject to change without notice. For direct sales, you can return
this software within 30 days for a full refund.
Beyond that, THERE IS NO OTHER WARRANTY FOR ANY OF THIS SOFTWARE. THIS
SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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