AdmuLinuxGo version 1.0b is now available! AdmulinuxGo is a Linux distribution designed to boot and run from ramdisk and CDrom. It is a full-featured Linux development system made instantly available without disk partitioning and without installing on the hard disk. Recommended usage: For people running Win9x on their desktops who want to try a modern robust operating system without the hassle of disk partitioning or installation, or for those with little or no harddisk space left. System requirements: PC with 386/486/Pentium or compatible processor, fast IDE/ATAPI-CDrom, 32MB ram minimum, SVGA/S3/VGA16 video card and multisync monitor, 2/3-button serial or PS2 mouse. Availability: Free public download by anonymous ftp from Ateneo de Manila University: ftp://curry.ateneo.net/iso-images/admulinux-1.0/admulinux-1.0b.iso Changes for 1.0b (July 22, 2000) 1. /usr/info/dir is now available, and so /usr/bin/info now works without arguments. 2. /etc/protocols is now available, and so '/bin/ping localhost' now works. To get ping to work for all cases, install the network card. 3. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc have been modified to effect the following chages: a. Root color is now gray24 instead of SteelBlue to match the subdued color scheme being used by fvwm. b. xterm uses white text over black background, so that text colors used by the /bin/ls command are more visible. Formerly, it was black text on white background, and many of the color choices in /etc/DIR_COLORS do not come out right. c. Left-clicking on the root window shows the main menu. Those applications that are not supported have been removed from the main menu, such as emacs, gimp, xfig, xpaint, xxgdb, TkDesk, Xfilemanager, Xfm, all the Xgames, Rxvt, Large Rxvt, NcFtp, Gnuplot, xfractint, screensaver marquee and nose, fvwm95, mwm, and olwm. Those applications that are supported have been added, such as ghostview, xpdf, and xwpe. Others that are already supported, like netscape and xv, were retained in the main menu. 4. The database /usr/man/whatis is now available, and so /usr/bin/whatis and /usr/bin/apropos now work. 5. /opt/netscape/netscape default webpage, /opt/apache/htdocs/index.html, though useful, is still ugly. However, Sacha Chua promised to work on this. 6. The user is now asked to login as root. Formerly, you get a login prompt, and the novice user does not know that he must login as root. So now we tell him. Like before, no password is required. 7. The softlink /opt/java/docs -> /opt/apache/htdocs/jdk1.2.2 is now installed, so that java documentation is available to apache, netscape and the java utilities. Changes for 1.0a 1. The first Windows partition (or Linux partition), if any, is mounted at /wrk 2. Directory /wrk/admlinux is created, and the following files are saved there: a. X configuration data: XF86Config, Xserver, mouse b. Swapfile: swap 3. On bootup, a swapfile, /wrk/admlinux/swap, is created, and if it already exists is enabled. 4. When root logs in, if X has not been previously configured, /usr/local/sbin/xsetup is run to configure X. 5. xsetup now asks the user to: a. Choose X server b. Specify horizontal and vertical frequencies of monitor c. Choose mouse, and if serial, choose serial port. 6. The user is told to type the command startx to get X window running. X is not automatically started in order to give the user a chance to manually tweak the files /wrk/admlinux/ {XF86Config, Xserver, mouse} on disk, and the actual X configuration files /etc/X11/XF86Config, /etc/X11/X, and /dev/mouse on ramdisk. Give AdmuLinuxGo a try. You might in fact like it, as others already have (tried and liked). PManalastas - Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
