NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/20015

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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: SLS update pending
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 01:13:22 GMT
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This weekend I will be updating SLS, so please avoid
downloading this Sunday morning (PST).  Primarily, this will be
the addition of mailpak (thanks to Vince), but also the fonts
for Ghostscript plus the afm fonts for Doc.  Note that this
allows for the use of GS plus DOC to do real professional
WYSIWYG composition (at last), all the way to the printer.

This adds a few more disks, so that the 'b' series now has
eight disks, and SLS (including TeX) now totals 29.  Very
shortly, it is hoped that X11 will be upgraded to jump
tables libs.  Hopefully, IV after that (at which time the
IV libs and the like will be included, and maybe 3.1 will be
out).

So there will be yet another big upgrade after this one, but hopefully,
that will be the last major one, and SLS will level off around the
30-32 disk mark.   Pretty hefty, but pretty complete (well, a nice
balance between complete and lean).

One last thing:  Before the X11 is rebuilt and re-released, I want
to look at recompiling just the device specific stuff into a shared
library that the X Server can use.  Hopefully, then different shared
libs can be linked to /lib/libXdevice implement different types of
servers.  This will let SLS distribute multiples servers without
having to store the rest of the server image.  Could some kind
soul please mail me where I can get the source for just the vga
devices, etc, so I can play with this, or establish why it can't be
done?

Thanks

Peter
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