-------------------------- The installation for Red Hat Linux/AXP makes Alpha machines as easy to install as Intels have been. You have the flexibility to install from NFS, CD-ROM, or a local hard drive. Networking, time, and keyboard configuration are all part of the install. After installing Red Hat Linux/AXP once, you will never need to reinstall Linux again! Our RPM packaging system is sophisticated enough to allow upgrading to new Red Hat releases without 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. . 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) . important packages and versions: XFree86 (Alpha port) 3.1.1 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 1.3.43 (slightly patched) libc (axp) 0.38 FTP AVAILABILITY ---------------- Red Hat Linux/AXP 2.1 and the Red Hat HOWTO, will be available from: ftp://ftp.pht.com/pub/linux/redhat-2.1-axp-beta SUPPORT POLICIES ---------------- 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 first! 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, or purchase a non-Red Hat Software CD-ROM with Red Hat Linux on it, you don't get any official support, and you will have to get support through the Red Hat AXP mailing list. Everyone who uses Red Hat AXP 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 axp-list-request@redhat.com with the word "subscribe" in the subject line of the message. Additional lists are rehat-list (for general Red Hat discussions), redhat-devel, redhat-announce, redhat-digest (a digest version of redhat-list), and rpm-list, which can be subscribed to in a similar fashion. PRODUCTS AND ORDERING INFORMATION -------------------------------------- * Red Hat 2.1/AXP BETA and 150 page User's guide $ 99.95 * Red Hat Software, Inc. 25 Sylvan Rd South Westport, CT 06880 (800) 454-5502 (203) 454-5500 (203) 454-2582 (fax) sales@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com http://www.acc-corp.com ... * ATP/ibcs2 1.50 * Nelson Eddy & Jenny MacDonald: "Ah, Sweet Mystery of fe" --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: Enlightened Board (703) 370-9528 (1:109/615) AW> I have to admit that I was a bit surprised that Digital AW> UNIX and OSF/1 don't have a boot from tape method like AW> Ultrix does... perhaps there is a way, and I just haven't AW> ran across it yet.... For a clear explanation of how the Alpha AXP boots up, see the December and January issues of the Linux Journal "Kernel Korner" column. The DEC engineers responsible for bringing Linux to the AXP explain the why and wherefore of the Alpha boot firmware (DEC calls it the "console"). There is a lot of kruft involved to support OpenVMS and NT on the Alpha with a heavy reliance on ugly call back routines. DEC engineers developed a new fast streamlined replacement for use with Linux. Since Linux doesn't need the DEC "console", Linux users can update the flash EPROM with the new DEC code, and realize immediate benefits. Since the Linux source code is open and available, I assume that at some point the code will be ported to OSF/1. Will this allow booting from tape? I don't know. However, it should be doable since the current limitations are attributable to the compromises needed to support OpenVMS and NT. The new firmware code simplifies things greatly. --Thomas ... * ATP/ibcs2 1.50 * Windows NT: No Testicles --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: Enlightened Board (703) 370-9528 (1:109/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1D00005 Date: 01/08/96 From: THOMAS MCWILLIAMS Time: 06:27pm \/To: ALLEN WITTENAUER (Read 10 times) Subj: Linux AXP rocket powered AW> I have to admit that I was a bit surprised that Digital AW> UNIX and OSF/1 don't have a boot from tape method like AW> Ultrix does... perhaps there is a way, and I just haven't AW> ran across it yet.... For a clear explanation of how the Alpha AXP boots up, see the December and January issues of the Linux Journal "Kernel Korner" column. The DEC engineers responsible for bringing Linux to the AXP explain the why and wherefore of the Alpha boot firmware (DEC calls it the "console"). There is a lot of kruft involved to support OpenVMS and NT on the Alpha with a heavy reliance on ugly call back routines. DEC engineers developed a new fast streamlined replacement for use with Linux. Since Linux doesn't need the DEC "console", Linux users can update the flash EPROM with the new DEC code, and realize immediate benefits. Since the Linux source code is open and available, I assume that at some point the code will be ported to OSF/1. Will this allow booting from tape? I don't know. However, it should be doable since the current limitations are attributable to the compromises needed to support OpenVMS and NT. The new firmware code simplifies things greatly. --Thomas ... * ATP/ibcs2 1.50 * Windows NT: No Testicles --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: Enlightened Board (703) 370-9528 (1:109/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1D00006 Date: 01/08/96 From: THOMAS MCWILLIAMS Time: 06:40pm \/To: JOHN POLTORAK (Read 10 times) Subj: OS/2 homomorphic to Unix JP> It's unfortunate that many Unix diehards refuse to JP> acknowledge this and dismiss OS/2 as just another version JP> of DOS. IMHO Unix and OS/2 are the only two OSs worth JP> getting to know pretty well (unless you have to work with JP> VMS or OS/400) because they will be around for the JP> foreseeable future. Well, anyone familiar with Unix internals will immediately recognize the strong design similarities between OS/2 and Unix if they read the Deitel and Kogan book "The Design of OS/2 2.0". The authors even borrowed the process state diagrams directly from page 31 of "The Design of the Unix Operating System". Quite frankly, most Unix folks seem to hold OS/2 in high esteem. It is pretty easy to make OS/2 look like Unix too. Add the TSHELL, the pd Korn Shell, and the GNU utilities and you'd swear you were running single-user Unix. JP> This probably shows the book's age since an SMP version of JP> OS/2 v2.1 was released around 18 months ago, and the SMP JP> version of Warp is either already available, or its release JP> is imminent. Thanks for the update. It is hard to keep up. ttyl, Thomas ... * ATP/ibcs2 1.50 * Hey gang! Let's all sing along with Mitch! --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: Enlightened Board (703) 370-9528 (1:109/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1D00007 Date: 01/05/96 From: JOHN POLTORAK Time: 07:05pm \/To: YOUSUF KHAN (Read 10 times) Subj: Linux Wednesday January 03 1996, Yousuf Khan writes to Akash Sagar: YK> IBM mainframes run multiple simulataneous operating systems loaded in YK> by a single operating system; IBM's major commercial mainframe OS is MVS and this can I run either as a guest OS, hosted by VM or it can run natively. John ---------------------------------- mailto://jpolt@bradnet.demon.co.uk --- * Origin: (2:250/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1E00000 Date: 01/07/96 From: PIERRE PHANEUF Time: 12:44pm \/To: YOUSUF KHAN (Read 10 times) Subj: Linux YK>> The real purpose of an operating system is provide YK>> a common API set for its applications to hook into and use. MJ>> No. That's the purpose of a library. YK> The same thing, they are. Dynamic libraries at least. Just a second... If we just take the name OS, it mean Operating System... This is in my opinion the part that, if removed, would make *everything* stop working (operating)... More specifically the OS would be the part that handle the direct I/O with the hardware... That's why you don't have to write a procedure to read/write to disk or support a filesystem in every program you do... Pierre --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: Zaphod Beeblebrox for President! (1:167/136.14) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1E00001 Date: 01/06/96 From: JOHN POLTORAK Time: 03:34pm \/To: NEETI RAY (Read 10 times) Subj: Linux Hello Neeti! Thursday January 04 1996, Neeti Ray writes to John Poltorak: JP>> It extremely easy. All you need to do is change your PROTSHELL tatement JP>> to CMD.EXE or even better TSHELL.EXE, a free IBM program which will let JP>> you run multiple text mode sessions and swap between them - similar to JP>> DESQview in many respects. I just wish there was something like this or JP>> Unix... NR> What do you mean "I just wish there was something like this for Unix"? NR> You've never had virtual consoles? No, never. NR> Just about every current (even older ones) has VC's, usually Alt-F1, NR> Alt-F2, etc. Multiple text sessions, w/ multiple login's too, so you NR> can have a root session, user session etc. Sounds like just the thing I've been looking for... How do you move from one session to another? NR> You use Linux too don't you? There's 64 VC's builtin by default. No, Solaris x86. Is there a man page for this? John