Linux News

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on in the Linux community Issue #14 June 13, 1993 Our Motto: "To Hack and to Serve" **** My Two Cents Linux News is back... at last! Since a lot happens in the world of Linux in a few months I will not endulge in my usual opinionated spiel but will just report the updates and new devlopments on the kernel and software scene. **** Announcements **June 8 Linus releases 0.99 pl10 kernel: I've finally released an official version of linux-0.99 patchlevel 10: there have been various alpha versions floating around which differ in details (notably networking code), which shouldn't be used any more. The ...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on in the Linux community Issue #13 February 16 Ons devies: "Hacken en dienen" **** My Two Cents Hi Activists! Now that _everyone_ in LinuxLand has TeX installed and is happily and productively auc-tex'ing, dvips'ing, and xdvi'ing away, it's time for another Linux News (overdue actually). A lot has happened with Linux software: new libs, new kernel, new utilities and ports. And the anxiusly awaited XFree86-1.2 is here and ready for the i386 unices. But the Doc Project has claimed another hard working and capable coordinator, Lars Wirzenius. The importance of the Doc Project became very clear to m...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on in the Linux community Issue #12 Jan 25 Mottomme: "Hakkeroida ja Auttaa" ***** My Two Cents Hello Activists! It seems that almost everyone liked the TeX version of the News last week so I will continue to produce the TeX version along with the ascii version. I actually beleive that the version has some value beyond the initial impression it makes: it provides a more tangible record of what is happening with Linux (assuming that it is printed out). People can hand it to a non--Activist and say ``See here's what is happening with the Linux crowd''. Also, years from now I will be able to market t...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on in the Linux community Issue #11 Jan 10 to Jan 17 Mottomme: "Hackeroida ja Auttaa" ***** For ASCII Readers This ASCII version of Linux News was produced by running the TeX version through detex.el. I'm sorry if it seems a little rough... I put all my efforts into the typeset copy! I have a couple of ideas to improve this .... I think I'll do the ASCII first and paste it into the TeX wrapper. I tried dvi2tty but I think it may have become confused by the double column stuff: it wasn't as good as the detex method. Lastly, the best idea may be to write a good awk filter, but I must find time to l...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on in the Linux community Issue #10 Jan 1 to Jan 10 Unser Motto: "Hacken und Helfen" ***** Contents - My Two Cents ....... blah blah woof woof from the editor - Announcements ....... the week++ in c.o.l. and c.o.l.a. - How Jump Tables Work .. Eric Youngdale - Good Answers ....... to questions in and out of the FAQ ***** My Two Cents Well, it's been ~one week since my first issue of Linux News and I've received no exploding binaries or redirected output from "worms" or "rain" in my mailbox .. so here is another issue. In fact, all the mail I received was helpful and encouraging, particularly that ...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on in the Linux community Issue #9 December 18 to Jan 1 Our Motto: "To Hack and to Serve" ***** News of Note - 0.99 and 0.99 patchlevel 1 kernels released - GCC 2.3.3 and Linux C library 4.2 available at tsx-11 - H.J. Lu's new bootable rootdisk released - YAPPS (yet another /proc ps) source at tsx-11 - Xxgdb (X interface to Gnu debugger) uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu - New Gnu utility binaries from Rik Faith - Tinymush and tinyfugue binaries uploaded - PennMush 1.5 ported - Newest Seyon is 1.6 - Ver. 0.2 of libgr.so sent to sunsite.unc.edu - SUGG conference in Moscow calls for papers on free so...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community Issue #8, November 28 through December 19, 1992 **** Highlights in this issue - kernel now at 0.99 - new newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce, comp.windows.x.i386unix - the end of Linux News? - mpeg-1.1 - deliver - TeX sources for Linux - Lilo 0.7 - xgraph - efsprogs alpha 11 - xphoon - Newspak 1.1 - ckermit - mawk - Seyon 1.5 - Xcomm - Epoch 4.2 - SLS updates **** Editorial In case you haven't noticed, I'm unusually late with this issue, about three weeks. Sorry about that. Due to the large number of things that I had saved for inclusion, and my chronic lack of time, I ha...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community Issue #7, November 22 through 28, 1992 **** Highlights in this issue - linux-man and linux-serial are gone - Rik Faith made new utilities binaries - XConquer 5.5 - Ingres - dvi2pcl - shadow login suite - new FAQ - Linux CD-ROM - DikuMud - Joe 1.0.7 - SLS update - ACM, a flight simulator - Seyon 1.3 - mbase 5.0 - no new kernels **** Editorial Um.., the mind is empty and I'm tired. I guess there won't be an editorial tonight. **** Legalese Linux News can be copied, re-published, printed, hung on walls, used as toilet paper, and used in any other way you wish. If you distri...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community Issue #6, November 16 through 25, 1992 **** Highlights in this issue - Back issues on LN via ftp - New efsprogs - SLS upgrades - TeX upgrad in SLS - 8-bit clean bash and rc - ImageMagick - Joe 1.0.5 - Linux via Trickle - BSD printer programs - Sources for several Linux admin programs - Seyon 1.1 **** Editorial Back issues of Linux News are now available via anonymous FTP from nic.funet.fi, directory /pub/OS/Linux/doc/Linux-News. This is an archive of the LINUXNEWS channel on the linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi mailing list. I will no longer be sending ...

L i n u x N e w s A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community Issue #5, November 6 through 16, 1992 **** Highlights in this issue - spreadsheets for calculating numbers for X display modes - new version of extended fs programs - "shell-init" bug fixed in SLS - new Xenix fs - kernel version 0.98.4 and 0.98.5 - fig2dev binaries available - tvgalib and joe sources on tsx-11 - Linux User Group in Albany, NY - GNU Emacs 18.59 - Seyon 0.8, communications program for X11 - color xterm, system call tracer, SCM scheme on tsx-11 - EtherNet FAQ posted - afio 2.3 available - comparison between Linux and 386BSD **** Editorial I'm late again. Bu...