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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:13440 comp.unix.misc:11342 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!openlink.openlink.com!btr!roman From: roman@btr.btr.com (Roman Yanovsky roman@btr.com) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc Subject: FreeBSD and Linux on CD-ROM for $30 Date: 12 Feb 1994 18:10:38 GMT Organization: BTR Communications Company Lines: 75 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2jj62u$jdo@openlink.openlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: btr.btr.com Trans-Ameritech presents "The best Linux plus FreeBSD CDROM ever" Great news for the Linux community! SLACKWARE - the critically acclaimed best Linux distribution - is now available on a CDROM from a company known for fastest delivery and best customer service. The new release is a result of a combined effort by Patrick Volkerding (creator of the Slackware distribution) and Trans-Ameritech and is based on Slackware 1.1.1 In addition to the binary and compressed source distributions, the CDROM contains an uncompressed file-system that can be directly mounted and used. This file-system has many man-pages, info files, games, applications etc. This release combines the best features of all existing CDROM releases of the Linux operating system: * The installation is highly automated by the Slackware scripts fine tuned to this CDROM but leaves a lot of room for customization. This is the "official" Slackware CDROM. The great advantage of Slackware is the ease of installing/deleting individual packages and sets. Install only what you really need! * In addition to standard device drivers in Linux kernel, support is provided for Sony and Matsushita (Sound Blaster) cdrom drives. Also BIOSless aha1522 SCSI is supported (it covers Sound Blaster 16 SCSI too) and PAS16 SCSI. Virtually all known hardware is supported. * To minimize the possibility of hardware conflicts many extra kernels are provided for different configurations. They are usable for installation and normal use. * A lot of applications are included: - GNU GCC 2.5.2, groff, ispell (GNU and international versions) - term, joe, jove, ghostscript, sc (spreadsheet) - TCP/IP, UUCP, mailx, dip, deliver, elm, pine, smail, cnews, nn, tin, trn - GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1, and the Smalltalk Interface to X. (STIX) - X applications: X11 ghostscript, libgr13, seyon, workman, xfilemanager xv 3.00, GNU chess and xboard, xfm 1.2, ghostview, X games - Interviews libraries, include files, and the doc and idraw apps, - TeX, groff - Ingress and Postgress databases. - Multimidia: mpeg video and sound applications. - Andrew. - FlexFAX and a lot more. Kanji extensions are included for the first time on a CDROM and several Cyrillic fonts are provided. * To help the first time Linux users many documentation files are provided that are readible from DOS even before installing Linux. * All the sources are available on the CDROM. The most often needed sources are uncompressed and can be used directly from CDROM. * An uncompressed Linux filesystem is available for reference and disk space conservation. You can run programs directly from CDROM! There is a large "info" directory for on-line reference and many manpages. * For hacker's reference an uncompressed FreeBSD source tree is provided. * On the BSD side there is a full source and binary distribution of the "final" FreeBSD 1.0 * If you have questions or problems Trans-Ameritech provides free support via e-mail within 24 hours. * We ship the same day as we get the order. The new CDROM is available for $30 plus shipping/handling. If you are a current customer, it is only $20. New releases will be available every 3 month. Subscription is available. Why buy software that is available for free from an ftp site? The answer is - it's cheaper this way and much more convenient. The binary distribution alone is about 60 Meg. Source distribution is about 90 Meg COMPRESSED!. Do you really want to put it on floppies? Even hard disk space is still about