Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: sanjuan!pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: SLS release: 1.01
Message-ID: <1993Apr18.153535.29139@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 15:35:35 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)

The latest release of SLS 1.01 (Softlanding Linux System) is now 
available on tsx-11.mit.edu.   The kernel is .99p8A with a (large)
number of patches applied.  I have reverted back to the practice
of providing the unpatched kernel source, but to alleviate the
problem of rebuilding, I provide a shell script to apply the
patches in the correct order.   See dopatch in /usr/src/patches.

The aforementioned patches include:

	ipc: 	   Interprocess communication
	selection: cut and paste on VC's
	national:  keyboard and vga font patches (also fixes X11 font smear)
	ifs:       Werners Inherited File System
	loop mount:allows a file to be mounted as a file system (Werner again)
	mcd:       Support for the mitsumi CD
	ramdisk:   a few of my hacks to get things rolling

The biggest feature of this release of SLS is a new install procedure.
Lilo is now used, and there are two different boot disks: a1.3 and a1.5.
The 3 inch disk has more room and so contains vi, ping and telnet.
The upshot is that you can install from: Floppy, Hard Disk, NFS, Tape
or CDROM (the SLS one, of course).   You can just boot as before, or
hold down ALT when you see LILO, for instructions.  The other advantage
is that it can also act as a recovery disk.  

Also, all packages have been renamed to .tgz from .tpz as FSF requested.
Sysinstall, will support both for the time being (well, also .taz and .tar).

All disks now contain short one line descriptions of each package on the
disk.  This is displayed, if you ask for prompt with install

This release should also fix a lot of the reported problems and
add a few new things.  These include, among other things:

	libc 4.3.3
	menu fixed
	Workman incl.
	ncurses and panel added
	xdm with shadow passwords
	tcpip upgraded and moved to /etc
	gdb with libreadline and shared libs
	upgraded mount, less, smalltalk, newspak, dosemu
	added xxgdb, Xtexcad, xhextris, mines, vgaset, strace, wdsetup
	xview upgrade (nice to have the development stuff works again)

I will be away for the next 4 days.  So please mail me with any problems,
and expect a delay.  Do not post it if you can help it, cause I may
never see it :-).

Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
