These distributions are available on CD-ROM. They are custom-assembled, rather than just being re-packagings of Slackware or some other network release.
Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205
San Jose, CA 95129-1034
Net:
info@yggdrasil.com
WWW:
http://www.yggdrasil.com
FTP:
http://ftp.yggdrasil.com
Vox: (800) 261-6630, (408) 261-6630
Fax: (408) 261-6631
Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux is a complete CD-ROM distribution
of the Linux operating system. It includes a great deal of
software---nearly every package that you would expect to find
on a complete UNIX system is available. A complete file
list is available via FTP from yggdrasil.com.
The Linux Bible is a compendium of Linux documentation, including 5 books from the Linux Documentation Project, The Yggdrasil installation manual, and the complete set of Linux HOWTO guides. We publish this and offer this separately from the CD-ROM distribution.
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.
Everybody, especially new users, will appreciate the Plug-and-Play operation for which Yggdrasil's 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. (This is no longer unique to Yggdrasil, but Yggdrasil did it first.)
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. X windows configuration is automated too, prompting the user
for configuration information the first time xinit is run.
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.
For more information, send mail to info@yggdrasil.com,
surf to www.yggdrasil.com, FTP to yggdrasil.com, or
contact us by any convenient method.
Plug-and-Play Linux costs $34.95 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.
Yggdrasil offers a $7 discount for upgrades or crossgrades. Send us your old Yggdrasil release and a check for $27.95 + $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 also sells OSF/Motif and The Linux Bible, a compilation of works from the Linux Documentation project. In addition to a copy of the Plug-and-Play Linux manual, The Linux Bible includes Linux Installation and Getting Started, Network Administrator's Guide, Kernel Hacker's Guide, System Administrator's Guide, Linux User's Guide, and HOWTO guides on hardware compatibility, distributions, dos emulation, ethernet, floppy tape, installation, mail, networking version 2, MGR (an alternative to X windows), X windows, usenet news, printing, SCSI, serial communications, sound, and UUCP. The Linux Bible costs $39.95 and is printed on recycled paper. $1 from every copy sold is donated to the Linux Documentation Project. OSF/Motif costs $149.95, $5 of which is donated to the development of a free Motif clone.
Mid-August 1995.
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Yggdrasil includes lots of well-chosen stuff with their distribution; the CD-ROM-only demo mode is impressive; installation and administration are easy enough to live up to their "Plug And Play" name. The 167-page manual is very nice. Their previous problems in the installation scripts seem to have been fixed.
Morse Telecommunications, Inc.
162 West Park Avenue, 2nd floor
Long Beach, NY 11561
Net:
order@morse.net
(orders)
support@morse.net
(info)
WWW:
http://www.morse.net
FTP:
ftp://www.morse.net
Vox: (800) 60-MORSE (orders), (516) 889-8610 (tech support)
Fax: (516) 889-8665
Hours: 9AM - 5PM EST, Monday through Friday. Fax available 24 hours.
Slackware Professional Linux 2.3 is a 4 CD-ROM set. This set also includes the contents of the sunsite.unc.edu archives and a 600-page printed manual. Thirty days of technical support (clock starting with the first phone call) is provided with this set at no additional charge.
Orders may be placed via phone, fax or email as listed above. The Professional version is $25.00 plus $5 per order for shipping and handling. All orders generally ship the same day if received by 4PM EST.
A full product description is available by email or at the Web site.
See Morse's entry under Re-Packagers for the Morse Quarterly CD-ROM.
July 1st 1995
7 December 1995
Morse is getting out of the Linux market, hence the clearance prices.
Red Hat Software
3201 Yorktown Road
Suite 113
Durham, NC 27713
Vox: (800) 546-7274 or (203) 454-5500
Fax: (203) 454-2582
Net:
redhat@redhat.com
WWW:
http://www.redhat.com
FTP:
http://ftp.redhat.com
Red Hat 2.1 is an update to Red Hat 2.0, 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 2.1 can save you the trouble.
Four installation innovations make Red Hat 2.1 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 2.1 on your laptop as easily as on your desktop machine!
After installing Red Hat Linux once, you will never need to reinstall Linux again! The new 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.
Available directly from Red Hat Software and most distributors of Linux related products. Please contact Red Hat Software for ordering details. Suggested retail price is $49.95.
1 Nov 1995 (2.1 release)
29 November 1995.
The big selling point of this distribution is RPM, the Red Hat Package Manager. This piece of software is a remarkable advance; it allows you to cleanly install and de-install applications and operating-system components, including the kernel and OS base itself. Red Hat has issued this under GPL, which is a good thing for other distributors; it is the considered opinion of this editor that those who do not adopt it will shortly have their lunches eaten by those who do.
WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. P.O. Box 460190 Aurora, CO 80046-0190
Vox: (303)-699-7470
Fax: (303)-699-2793
Net:
info@wgs.com
(orders)
FTP:
ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs
The charter of the WGS Linux Pro CD is different from all other distributions currently on the market. We are actively pursuing penetration into the commercial marketplace for Linux. Everything we do is aimed at increasing the size of the Linux community, and helping Linux to become THE one true operating system, not just an operating system.
WGS Linux Pro consists of our Main "Stable" Linux CD, for which we select what we consider to be the best Linux distribution available. Then we make bug fixes & minor enhancements. This CD often contains software older than the latest, under the theory that "the latest is not always the greatest". Together with this approach we provide technical support as well as support agreements. For this reason WGS Linux Pro is considered a primary Linux distribution. Optionally, and in addition to our primary CD, we supply supplemental CDs containing the latest versions of every primary Linux distribution we can get our hands on, as well as all the latest Linux software. Virtually anything you will get with anyone's Linux product can be found on these supplemental CDs. We continually add more to these supplemental CDs as software becomes available. Even with all this, pricing on our product line is very favorable when correctly compared to other Linux distributions. Also optional is a professionally produced and printed manual containing the Linux documentation project and more!
Look in ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs/Filelist for a list of WGS products, and latest information on the CD-ROM.
WGS Linux Pro is available on CD from dealers and distributors worldwide, and soon from our FTP site.
You may call, fax, email, or mail us, to purchase, or request additional information. We will be happy to respond to any question you have. We accept American Express, Visa, and MasterCard, or purchase orders with approval of credit.
Complete information is available on our FTP site.
WGS publishes a free E-Mail newsletter on Linux and FlagShip to which you may subscribe by just emailing us your request.
In addition we carry Motif, FlagShip, A line of books, and other products to make your experience with Linux more complete and fulfilling. Check us out!
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25 November 1995.
Trans-Ameritech
2342A Walsh Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Net:
info@trans-am.com
order@trans-am.com
WWW: http://www.zoom.com/tae
Vox: (408)-727-3883
Fax: (408)-727-3882
BBS: (408)980-9840
Trans-Ameritech has published 8 releases of Linux by the end of 95. Traditionally, Trans-Ameritech has set new standards for combining ease of use and straightforward installation, even for a first-time user, with its line of LinuxWare CD-ROMs. This is a flexible, easy-to-install operating system geared toward those intersted in learning Unix as well as technical people, students and home PC users.
Many applications are included:
All the sources are available on the CD-ROM. The often needed sources are uncompressed and can be used directly from the CD-ROM.
An uncompressed Linux filesystem is available for references and disk space conversation. You can run programs directly from the CD-ROM! There is a large info directory for on-line reference and many manpages.
For hacker's reference, uncompressed 386 BSD sources are provided on Supplement 4.
The latest upgrades and patches are always available through Trans-Ameritech Linux BBS:(408) 980 9840. It's free for all Trans-Ameritech customers.
Our distribution is targeted for Windows and DOS users who want an easy migration path upwards,rather than for UNIX experts.
The price for our current release of LinuxWare 2.5 is $19.95
The price for a package order: LinuxWare 2.5,Supplement 3 and Supplement 4 (Ultimate LinuxWare Bundle) in one shipment is $30
The book "Running Linux"- a 550 page comprehensive Linux tutorial by Matt Welsh is $20
If you order with a credit card (VISA, MC, AmEx, Discovery), please, indicate the card number,expiration date and your mailing address.
Shipping and handling in US: single CD-ROM or Ultimate LinuxWare Bundle is $5(first class US mail).If you would like to order CD-ROM with the book,shipping is $8(UPS ground).
Overseas shippping is $8 for single CD-ROM , $12 for the bundle and $25 for the bundle plus the book.
COD is available in the US only for $4.50. California residents, please add 7.75% sales tax.
Annual subscription (4 releases) are available for $80 plus S&H (note: there are 4 shipments in a subscription). Example: subscription in US is:$80+$5x4=$100. Subscription in Europe/Japan etc. $80 + $8x4 = $112.
If you have any further questions,please contact us through E-mail: info@trans-am.com or order@trans-am.com.
September 1995
29 November 1995.
Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord, CA 94520
Ftp.cdrom.com is the home of Slackware Linux. We are the publishers of the Official Slackware Linux CDROM. Our distribution is a 2-disc set with the current version being Slackware 3.0. The current disc contains kernels 1.2.13 and 1.3.18 as well as Elf Binaries.
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/slackware.html FTP: ftp.cdrom.com/pub/slackware
The cost of the CD-ROM set from Walnut Creek is $39.95.
September 1995.
23 November 1995.
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