----------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux -- The free 386 Un*x clone is here! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TSX-11's Linux FTP site! Directory structure: docs documentation (such as it is) docs/LDP Linux Documentation Project work. A series of books on Linux, at various stages of completion. sources sources to Linux, broken down by whether system sources (including libc.a), sources to system programs, sources to usr.bin, and library sources. binaries various binaries for Linux (use the tar and compress programs found on the root disk or in binaries/usr.bin to unpack these) packages contains packaged programs, like GCC, Ada, OI, fortran, emacs, and others ALPHA contains software that is not yet considered stable by its author(s) BETA software that is considered a little better by its author(s) patches contains patches to Linux (typically, but not always, patches to the system sources, such as patches to add new features to the kernel). Check ALPHA and BETA for many newer patches; these are mostly old. ports contains patches to make other programs compile on a Linux system mail-archive contains an archive of the Linux-Activsts mailing list info contains various useful informational files which Linux hackers may find useful attic contains old version of programs. TSX-11 does not yet have a mail server --- I'm working on it.... If you need mail service, please try the mail server available at sunsite.unc.edu. Mail ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu for more information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To upload stuff --- please use the directory /incoming. It is world-writable, but not world-readable, so you (or anybody else) will not be able to see stuff which you drop there until we move it to the proper place the directory hierarchy. Please send mail to ftp-linux@tsx-11.mit.edu after you leave something there, so we can pick it up as soon as possible. Get and read the file /incoming/README for more *important* information on how to submit files to the tsx-11 archive. *REALLY, please do this* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The email address for digests of comp.os.linux.* is linux-activists@news-digests.mit.edu Anything mailed to this address will be posted to the appropriate newsgroup. All administrative requests (subscriptions/unsubscriptions/etc) MUST go to the administrative address: linux-activists-request@news-digests.mit.edu See below for what happens if you ignore this address :-) Also, please be prepared for a bit of a wait when you use this service, as the administrator is quite busy right now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux mailing list addresses: The new mail server for the Linux lists is majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Send an email to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with the single word help in the body of the message. Do not put the word help in the subject, put it in the body of the message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The current status of the linux kernel can be obtained by using "finger torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi" This status report is usually fairly long, so you might want to do "finger torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi | more"