The Walnut Creek CDROM edition of Plug-and-Play Linux
32-bit Internet-ready multimedia operating system with source code Fall 1994 ● For PC Compatibles Includes 32 page Instruction booklet!
Now supports all well-behaved MSCDEX CDROM drivers!
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Plug-and-Play Linux
Linux is a complete 32-bit Unix-like operating system. With Yggdrasil Linux, you get 76,323 files and • Easy installation with 32 page printed instruction booklet, online information, and friendly Yggdrasil install program. • The Linux 1.1 kernel. • X Window System: X11R6 XFree86 3.0, Xlib/Xt X Window libraries, Tcl/Tk scripting languages. Xview 3.2 OpenLook toolkit, InterViews 3.1 C++ toolkit. • Andrew System 6.3. Easily create documents with the ez editor and have imbedded images, equations, spreadsheets, hypertext links, and other media types. • Networking: with TCP/IP, NFS and other standard Internet protocols. • Games: asteroids, chess, Mille Borne, Othello, pool, Shogi, solitaire, connect four, more. • Multimedia: viewers for JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and other image formats, MPEG video, sound. • Text editors: Elvis Vi clone, GNU Emacs, and graphical Lucid GNU Emacs. • Desktop Publishing: TeX & groff typesetting, X previewers, ghostscript, fax, and printers. • Telecommunications: minicom, z-modem, cu, Taylor UUCP, electronic faxes. • Development environment, including GNU ANSI C and C++ compilers.
Hardware Requirements 4MB Ram (8MB without swap partition), 386 or better, ISA, EISA, PCI, local BUS. Disk: IDE, RLL, MFM, ESDI, SCSI with supported controller. You can choose to boot into Linux or another OS with our boot manager. Linux needs a 2 to 610 MB disk partition. A usable setup can use as little as 30 MB. A demo system uses 0 MB! CDROM: Sony 531, 535, CDU-31A, SoundBlaster-compatible CDROM's, Mitsumi, SCSI CDROM with supported controller, experimental drivers for ide CDROM drives and for any MSCDEX compatible CDROM. SCSI: Adaptec 154x, and 174x, Bustek 542B, Future Domain 8xx, or 16xx, TMC-950 chip based controllers, Ultrastor. Experimental drivers for Trantor, Always in-2000, AdaptecAIC 6260 chip (151x/152x boards), Seagate ST-01/ST02, MediaVision, Creative Labs sound cards, NCR53C810 chipset based controllers, Adaptec 27xx series. Video: 640x480 16 colors for any VGA card, 256 colors & up to 1280x1024 for S3 801/805/911/924/928, 8514, Tseng ET3000/ET4000, Oak-067/077/087, Western Digital 90c00/90c10/90c30/90c31, Genoa, ATI Mach8/32/64, Trident 8900b/c/cl/cs, Cirrus Logic 5420/5422/5426/62x5, NCR 77c22/77c22e, Compaq AVGA, Hercules mono. Tape: SCSI with supported SCSI controller. Experimental floppy tape driver. Sound: Adlib, SoundBlaster, MediaVision, Gravis Ultrasound, MPU-401 drivers, PC speaker. Ethernet: Novell NE1000/NE2000/NE2100, 3Com 3c501, 3c503, 3c505, 3c509, 3c579, AT1500, AT1700, D-Link DE600 and DE620 and ethernet II, AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter, Artisoft LANtastic AE-2, Alta Combo, Cabletron, Ansel 3200, Apricot 82596, AT1700, AT1500, Digital DE100, DE200, DE202, DE422 and EtherWORKS, Cabletron E2100, Intel EtherExpress, Zenith Z-Note, Hewlett-Packard 27245, 27247, 27250, J2405A, and PCLAN, Western Digital 8003 and 8013, other 8390-based cards.