Where can I find this linux that everyone keeps talking about?
Jim
jnolan@tec.army.mil
jnolan@tec.army.mil requests...
Where can I find this linux that everyone keeps talking about?
From the June 1994 Free Software Foundation GNUsletter...
* Linux: a free Unix system for 386 machines
Linux (named after its main author, Linus Torvalds) is a free Unix clone
that implements POSIX.1 functionality with SysV and BSD extensions.
Linux has been written from scratch and contains no proprietary code.
Many of the utilities and libraries are GNU Project software. Linuxe
currently runs only on 386/486/Pentium machines, with ISA/EISA/PCI-bus
machines, but a port to the m68k family is in early alpha testing (it
currently only runs on high end Amiga computers). Linux is freely
re-distributable and available via anonymous FTP from `tsx-11.mit.edu'
in `/pub/linux' (USA) & `nic.funet.fi' in `/pub/OS/Linux' (Europe).
Ask `linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi' about mailing lists. See
the USENET newsgroups, such as `comp.os.linux.misc', for discussions.
* Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux is a complete, full-featured system based on GNU and
Linux that is easy to install and configure. It was initially created
by Ian Murdock and has grown into an open and distributed project in
which everyone is welcome to directly participate. Debian is available
from `sunsite.unc.edu' in `/pub/Linux/distributions/debian'. For more
information about the Debian project and how to get involved, see
`/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/info'.
Also...
* New GNU Column in New Linux Magazine
WWW: `http://www.pooh.com/’
Arnold Robbins, `arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu', a long-time volunteer for the
GNU project, is the author of "What's GNU?", a regular column in the new
monthly magazine `Linux Journal'. The column discusses the GNU project,
its software and other interesting free software. It is available from
the publishers of `Linux Journal'. Contact Arnold or Phil Hughes,
`phil@fylz.com', the publisher of `Linux Journal' for more information.
Maybe you would have some luck on your own with the "free" sources of Linux,
but I would read/respond to the the linux groups/lists for advice/help first.
Plan:
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Jim Nolan (jnolan@tecsun1.tec.army.mil) wrote:
: Where can I find this linux that everyone keeps talking about?
LINUX can be found at a number of locations, I typically get the
Slackware distribution from either, tsx-11.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu
or ftp.cdrom.com. The first two contain almost everything available
for LINUX.
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