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- Tired of MSDOS and Windows? Try the Yggdrasil Linux CDROM, a genuine
- Unix-like 32 bit operating system with full source code. The current
- Linux is based on the 0.99.14 kernel, GCC 2.5.7, Xfree86 2.0 (X11R5)
- X windows, and hundreds of other programs. You get 235 MB of
- binaries and 445 MB of source code.
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- Among the programs you get on the Linux CDROM is the Andrew mail
- system which now has multimedia support for documents with embedded
- images, spreadsheets, hypertext links, etc. Further, the regular
- mailer and news reader now also understand MIME multimedia mail. In
- the X windows programming environment, Linux includes XView,
- OpenLook, the InterViews C++ toolkit, and the new extended Tk/Tcl.
- You get *two* multi-windowing versions of emacs: Emacs 19.22 and
- Lucid GNU Emacs 19.8. Also new are the professional software
- reliability tools DejaGnu, Gnats, tkGnats, and RCS.
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- The Linux CDROM also contains hundreds of other programs. Included
- are emulators, development tools, programming languages, a database
- system, communications software, desktop publishing and TeX software,
- text editors, multimedia viewers, sound support, ethernet networking
- software, and games. You also receive a *free* copy of the Linux
- Journal with the disc and a month ($40 or 11 hours) of Internet shell
- access!
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- You can install Linux on as little as 2 MB or as much as 680 MB of
- hard disk space. A 60-page installation booklet and easy
- installation script guides you through the setup. Set the system
- options with graphical "fill in the blank" control panels. Linux can
- also share a hard disk with other operating systems on separate
- partitions.
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- Linux runs on a 386 or above PC with 4 MB of RAM (8 MB without a swap
- partition), a SCSI CDROM drive and a VGA card. It also supports SCSI
- tape drives, most commercial sound cards, and most commercial
- ethernet cards.
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- The 75,000+ files in this complete plug-and-play operating system include:
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- Linux 1.1 kernel supporting most popular CDROM drives (see hardware
- list on back).
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- An easy-to-use installation script, plus a graphical user interface for
- system configuration.
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- The X Window System: X11R6 Xfree86 3.0 (see hardware list on
- back), Xlib/Xt X windows libraries, the Tcl/Tk programming language and
- toolkit, the Xview 3.2 OpenLook(tm) toolkit, InterViews C++ toolkit.
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- The Andrew System version 6.3, including the ez editor
- for easy creation and reading of documents with imbedded images,
- equations, spreadsheets, hypertext links, and many other media types.
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- Ethernet Networking with TCP/IP, RPC and other Internet protocols.
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- Games:
- asteroids, battle zone, chess, mille bornes, othello, pool, shogi,
- solitaire, tetris, and connect four.
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- Multimedia: viewers for JPEG, GIF, TIFF and other image formats,
- MPEG video, support for many sound cards.
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- Text editors: the elvis vi clone, GNU Emacs,
- and Lucid GNU Emacs.
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- Desktop Publishing:
- , LaTeX, and groff typesetting packages with X previewers,
- and ghostscript, a postscript interpreter for X windows, faxes and a
- variety of printers.
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- 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.
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- The Postgres 4.1 remote database system.
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- Programming Languages:
- GNU C++, GNU ANSI C, GNU Ada94, FORTRAN-to-C and Pascal-to-C
- translators, and Prolog.
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- Enhanced development environment:
- GNU debugger, bison, flex, GNU make, the GNU Coverage Tool,
- Revision Controls System, Concurrent Version System, GNATS,
- and berkeley yacc.
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- System V-style shared memory and interprocess communication.
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- File Systems: a filesystem with long file names, symbolic links,
- and FIFO's, System V, Xenix, Coherent, Minix,
- NFS, DOS, HPFS (Read Only), and ISO9660/Rock Ridge CDROM filesystems.
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- Emulators: a BIOS emulator that can run DOS, an experimental ELF
- loader, and a snapshot of a WABI Windows emulator under development.
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