AdmuLinuxGo 1.0c is now available.
AdmuLinuxGo -- The Instant Linux!
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, just by booting the
AdmuLinuxGo CDrom.
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*.iso
Changes for 1.0c (July 26, 2000)
1. /opt/netscape/netscape is now communicator version 4.74.
2. Hugs98, a Haskell interpreter from Yale, is now installed as
/usr/bin/hugs. This is for my students in CS280, "Programming
Paradigms".
3. By making the links /usr/lib/zoneinfo -> /usr/share/zoneinfo,
/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime -> /etc/localtime,
/etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Manila, and by
running 'hwclock --hctosys --localtime' in /sbin/rc,
the 'date' command now gives the proper date as set in the
hardware clock. (Note: /usr is on read-only CDrom, but /etc
is on ramdisk. By changing /etc/localtime and then running
hwclock, the user can change timezone). The variable ENV_TZ
in /etc/login.defs was defined incorrectly. It has been
removed.
4. The X screensavers bob, geometry, and pengiun have been
removed from the fvwm main menu, since they are not supported.
5. The default webpage /opt/apache/htdocs/index.html is now more
compact and a slightly prettier. Now it includes the Hugs98
users' manual.
6. Root color under X is now gray50, which is lighter than the
original gray24.
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 now works.
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 (July 12, 2000)
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 (by rerunning xsetup?)
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