From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 08:14:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA03575 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:14:20 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA03557 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:14:14 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA14954 for hackers@freefall; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:14:09 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:14:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199509271514.IAA14954@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: What the competition'' is up to - just FYI. Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Path: reason.cdrom.com!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.helsinki.fi!usenet From: Red Hat Software Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: COMMERCIAL: Red Hat Linux 2.0 available via FTP! 100% ELF! Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 12:21:40 GMT Organization: ? Lines: 173 Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: kruuna.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Red Hat Software is pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Commercial Linux 2.0 the latest and greatest from the zany folks at Red Hat Software. Come see us at UNIX Expo September 19th through 21st. We will be demoing all our latest stuff. We will also be showing various Red Hat tools running on an Alpha! 1. Introduction Red Hat Software 2. Features (800) 454-5502 3. RPM Packaging System (203) 454-5500 4. FTP Availability info@redhat.com 5. Support and Mailing List http://www.redhat.com 6. CD-ROMs *** Introduction Red Hat Commercial Linux 2.0 (Red Hat 2.0) is a complete rewrite of the acclaimed Red Hat Mother's Day distributions. It is a completely ELF based system -- If you have been putting off the upgrade to ELF, or have been having trouble upgrading a piece at a time, Red Hat 2.0 can save you the trouble. Four installation innovations make Red Hat 2.0 the easiest Linux to install ever. Our new graphical installation mode brings you straight up into X for most of the installation. Our boot disk creation script eases selection of the proper boot disk, and it saves your existing network configuration information and XF86Config so you don't have to configure TCP/IP or X! Our FTP install allows you to install simply by downloading 3 floppy disk images -- the rest is done automatically! And finally, the installation includes seamless support for PCMCIA devices -- install Red Hat 2.0 on your laptop as easily as on your desktop machine! This will be the last Linux system you ever install. The new rpm packaging system is sophisticated enough to allow upgrading to new Red Hat releases without a reinstalling your system - no partitioning, no backing up all your files, no headaches. Also included are all the popular Red Hat graphical control panel utilities that have simplified system administration for Red Hat users for over a year. *** Features . 100% ELF (with a.out compatibility libraries) . powerful RPM packaging system . easy to use GLINT graphical package administration tool . compliant with version 1.2 of the Linux File System Standard . graphical installation (text based install also supported) . FTP installation . integrated seamless PCMCIA support for laptop installs! . important new and upgraded packages: XFree86 3.1.2 Apache httpd server Perl 5 Tcl 7.4 / Tk 4.0 Python 1.2 w/ Tk 4.0 support GCC 2.7.0 Linux kernel 1.2.13 libc 5.0.9 *** RPM Packaging System Red Hat 2.0 is built on an entirely new packaging system called RPM. The rpm system combines features of the Red Hat RPP system and the BOGUS pms and pm systems, and adds many advanced features of its own, including smart config file handling across package upgrades, "shared" file handling, documentation searching support, and package installation via FTP. You can install, uninstall, query, verify, and upgrade individual rpm packages. A new graphical package management tool called GLINT allows you to quickly and easily manage and track your system. Glint is a vast improvement over our previous Linux Installation Manager (LIM) -- it is much faster, displays a hierarchy of packages represented by individual package icons, and has displays progress meters during installation. The source packages include pristine, untouched sources, as well as patches and a control file which defines the building and packaging process. This system was conceived and promoted by the BOGUS distribution development team: Rik Faith, Doug Hoffman, and Kevin Martin. We are releasing rpm under the terms of the GPL and we would like to encourage everyone to use it to package their software. You can get rpm separately from Red Hat 2.0 from any of the official Red Hat FTP mirror sites. *** FTP Availability Red Hat 2.0 is available from the following official Red Hat FTP mirrors. If you would like to mirror Red Hat at your site, please send mail to mirror-list@redhat.com for complete instructions. FTP Site Directory ======== ========= ftp.pht.com /pub/linux/redhat sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/distributions/redhat ftp.cms.uncwil.edu /linux/redhat ftp.wilmington.net /linux/redhat ftp.caldera.com /pub/mirrors/redhat ftp.lasermoon.co.uk /pub/distributions/RedHat ftp.cc.gatech.edu /pub/linux/distributions/redhat uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu /pub/systems/linux/distributions/redhat For installation instructions, read the RHCL-Installation-HOWTO, which can be found in the docs directory. In short, if you are doing an ftp install, just get the two ramdisk images, and one of the boot disk images and follow your instincts... *** Support and Mailing List On our web site and official Red Hat mirror sites you will find the Red Hat FAQ, which probably answers most of your questions. Check it out! If you purchase a Red Hat CD-ROM product you get 30 days of installation support via email. If you download Red Hat via FTP you will have to get support through the Red Hat mailing list. Everyone who uses Red Hat should be on the list! We use the list as a primary avenue for support, and all our announcements are sent to the list. To subscribe, send mail to listproc@redhat.com with the following in the body of the message: subscribe redhat-list FirstName LastName Want even more support? Get the Red Hat Support Program. It's a full support contract along with a year long Red Hat subscription! See our web site for complete details. *** CD-ROMs available from Red Hat Software For only $49.95, you can get our new 4 CD set! The four CD's include: Red Hat Commercial Linux 2.0 The Red Hat 2.0 Live Filesystem CD A sunsite.unc.edu linux archive A tsx-11.mit.edu linux archive What else do you get for that low-low price? Support! We provide 30 days of installation support, along with many other methods of support. What can you do with the Live Filesystem CD? Plenty. Tired of trying to explain linux to your friends and co-workers? Install it! Well, sort of anyway. By booting two floppies and using a supported CD-ROM drive, you can show off the power of linux and X windows right from the CD. You can also insert a third floppy to be mounted automatically to use for storing files. Quite a nice system. The Red Hat Users Guide is also available. It covers all aspects of installation and administration of your Red Hat system. The Red Hat Retail Division can be reached at: phone: (203) 454-5500 (800) 546-7274 fax: (203) 454-2582 email: info@acc-corp.com www: http://www.acc-corp.com -- Send comp.os.linux.announce submissions to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software.