Subject: COMMERCIAL: Slackware Professional 2.0 from VITAL
From: [email-masked] (VITAL)
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 15:08:40 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Hello,

This is to announce that Slackware Professional 2.0 CD is available for sale
from Vital. Slackware Professional 2.0 has sold out completely in its
initial publication. These are the last few copies available.

To order Slackware, please call VITAL at: +1 (214) 491-6907 or mail to
[email-masked]. Credit card orders are welcome.

SUMMARY

Slackware Professional Linux 2.0 is the authorized CDROM-runnable version
of Slackware version 2.0, now available on most common Linux FTP sites.
This version continues the distribution's tradition of being the easiest
and most flexible version of Linux to install and maintain.

Slackware Professional Features and Enhancements:

	+ Linux kernel 1.1.18
	+ Xfree 2.1.1
	+ Beta version of X11r6 (XFree86 3.0) is included in binary form.
	+ Can be run almost entirely from CDROM
	+ Minimum installation is 8 meg on a native Linux partition
	+ For users wishing to run from an MSDOS parition, Slackware
	  Professional can be be run directly from CDROM while using as 
	  little as 11 megabytes of DOS file space.
	+ For unsupported CDROM drives, installation is supported
	  through either floppy disk or MSDOS partition. What this means
	  is that if your CDROM drive is unsupported, you can still 
	  run Slackware Professional.
	+ 90 days of on-call technical support

WHAT IT IS

Linux is a mostly POSIX compliant Unix(tm) clone for 386 and 486 PC's and
compatibles. Since its introduction on the Internet two years ago, Linux has
grown in popularity by leaps and bounds. Slackware has, for some time, been
the most popular version or distribution of The Linux Operating System.
With Slackware Professional Linux, users now have, for the first time, a 
professionally produced and supported version of this operating system.

WHAT IT DOES

Slackware Professional Linux allows users to begin running Slackware almost
immediately, directly from their CDROM drive. A minimum installation,
which is CDROM dependent, can be accomplished in as little as 8 megabytes
of hard drive space. Additionally, you can now run Slackware from your 
MSDOS partition by using 11 Megabytes of space and mounting the CDROM. This
means you no longer have to partition your drive to begin using Slackware.

Tailoring Slackware Professional is both simple and flexible. Any package
which is runnable from the CDROM can be installed to the hard drive to
increase the speed of execution. By the same token, packages which are
deemed less necessary can be removed from the hard drive and run from the
CDROM. You're not limited to arbitrary assignments of binary location.

WHAT IT INCLUDES

Slackware Professional includes the following:

	+ The Slackware Professional CDROM
	+ The Slackware Professional Installation Supplement
	+ The Linux Installation & Getting Started Guide (200+ pages, bound)
	+ Demonstrations of commercial Linux Applications
	+ A coupon for a free copy of Linux Journal
	+ 90 Days of on-call technical support
	+ A collection of special offers

The entire package is boxed and shrink-wrapped with attractive artwork along
with a picture of Patrick Volkerding, the creator of Slackware, his signature
and endorsement of the product.

HARDWARE COMPATABILITY

SYSTEMS:	386/486/Pentium PC Compatible with ISA, EISA or VESA Local Bus.
		(Microchannel Unsupported)

MEMORY:		4 Megabytes (8 or more recommended)

DISKS:		IDE,MFM,RLL,ESDI, SCSI (With one of the supported SCSI
		controllers listed below)

TAPES:		Floppy Tape (experimental), SCSI Tape (with supported 
		controller)

CDROM:		Sony CDU-31a, CDU-33a,531,535, Soundblaster CDROMS,Mitsumi,
		Pro Audio Spectrum CDROMS, all SCSI CDROMS( with supported
		SCSI controller)

SOUND:		Adlib, Soundblaster, MediaVision,Gravis Ultrasound, PC Speaker

VIDEO:		8514/A (and true clones), ATI Mach8, Mach32, Cirrus CLGD5420,
		CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428,S3,86C911,86C924,86C801,
		86C805, 86C805i, 86C928,Western Digital WD90C31,Tseng ET3000, 
		ET4000AX, ET4000/W32,Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1, 
		Western Digital WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11, WD90C24, WD90C30, 
		WD90C31,Genoa GVGA,Trident TVGA8800CS, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, 
		TVGA8900CL, TVGA9000,TVGA9000i, TVGA9100B, TVGA9200CX, TVGA9320,
		TVGA9400CX, TVGA9420,ATI 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-a,NCR 77C22, 
		77C22E, 77C22E+,Cirrus Logic CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, 
		CLGD5426, CLGD5428,CLGD6205, CLGD6215, CLGD6225, CLGD6235,
		Compaq AVGA,OAK OTI067, OTI077

		Diamond Cards remain UNSUPPORTED, due to their proprietary
		nature.

SCSI ADAPTERS: 	Adaptec AHA152X, AHA1542,AHA1740 ,Future Domain 16xx,
		Generic NCR5380,PAS16, Seagate ST-02 and Future Domain TMC-8xx,
		Trantor T128/T128F/T228, UltraStor,7000FASST

		An additional bootimage is included which is based on 
		the kernel 1.1.18 and  supports Buslogic and Always IN2000
		controllers.

PROTOCOLS:	TCP/IP, SLIP, CSLIP, PPP, AX25

ETHERNET CARDS:	PLIP (parallel port),NE2000/NE1000,WD80*3,SMC Ultra,
		3Com 3c501,3c503,3c505,3c507,3c509/3c579,HP PCLAN,
		AT1500 and NE2100 (LANCE and PCnet-ISA), AT1700 support,
		Zenith Z-Note,EtherExpress,DEPCA,NI52EE,NI65EE,
		Ansel Communications EISA 3200,Cabletron E21xx,
		D-Link DE600 pocket adaptor,AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adaptor

FILESYSTEMS:	Minix, Linux Native, Xiafs, MSDOS, /proc, NFS, ISO9660, 
		OS/2 HPFS (Read-only),UMSDOS, System V and Coherent

ADDITIONAL:	Parallel Printer,Logitech Busmouse,PS/2 Mouse,
		C&T 82C710 mouse port ,Microsoft busmouse,ATIXL busmouse

SUPPORT SERVICES

We believe that if Linux is to become an accepted alternative version of 
Unix(tm), it must receive the same high level of support and service that 
the proprietary implimentations receive from their manufacturer. With this 
in mind, we continue our tradition of providing free technical support for 
up to 90 days from the date of your first call with us.

The first time you call for support you will be asked to register with us. 
After that, you have full, on-call access to our technical support staff
for 90 days.  Support will also be provided via electronic mail and fax,
as the user desires.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Slackware Professional Linux 2.0 contains the following software in 
both source and binary form:

BSD-4.4-make BSD-mailx-5.5 BSDgames-1.3 ConfigXF86 FAQs GNU-Emacs-19.25
GNU-Smalltalk-1.1.1 GNU-as.1.38.1l2 GNU-as.2.2l GNU-bash-1.14 GNU-bc-1.02
GNU-binutils-1.9 GNU-bison-1.22 GNU-chess-4.00p69 GNU-cpio-2.3 
GNU-diffutils-2.6 GNU-fileutils-3.9 GNU-find-3.8 GNU-flex-2.4.6 GNU-gawk-2.15.5
GNU-gcc-gxx-objc-2.4.5 GNU-gcc-gxx-objc-2.5.8 
GNU-gdb-4.12 GNU-gnat(Ada)-1.79 GNU-gpc(Pascal)-2.5.7 GNU-grep-2.0 
GNU-groff-1.09 GNU-gzip-1.2.4 GNU-info-files GNU-ispell-4.0 GNU-ld.1.9l.3 
GNU-libg++-2.5.3 GNU-m4-1.1 GNU-mtools-2.0.7 GNU-patch-2.1 GNU-rcs-5.6
GNU-sed-2.05 GNU-shellutils-1.9.4 GNU-tar-1.11.2 GNU-texinfo-3.1 
GNU-textutil-1.9 GNU-time-1.6 GNU-tput-1.0 LDP-docs LaTeX2e Linux-1.0
Linux-1.0.9 Linux-1.1.10 Linux-1.1.18 Tcl-7.3
TclX-7.3a Tk-1.6 Tk-3.6 Umsdos-0.3a X11r5 XFree86-2.1.1 XFree86-3.0-beta
acct-1.1.18 andrew-toolkit-(ATK)-6.3 apsfilter-2.3 ash at-2.7 byacc clisp
cnews cron(dillon's)3.0pl1 deliver dialog-slackware-0.3 dungeon e2fsprogs-0.5a
elm-2.4pl23 elvis-1.8pl3 f2c+libf2c.so.0.9.2 file-3.9 ftape-0.9.10a
ftape-0.9.9d ftape-1.12 gentle-TeX-intro getty_ps-2.0.7e
ghostscript-2.6.1+SVGAlib ghostview-1.5 gnuplot-3.5 ifs-5.1 inn-1.4
international-ispell-3.009 interviews-3.1 itcl-1.3 jed-0.96 joe-1.0.8
jove-4.14.7 jpegsrc.v4 kbd-0.87 ld.so-1.4.3 less-177 lharc-1.02 libc-4.4.4
libc-4.5.26 libgr-1.3 lilo-0.14 linux-ppp-0.1.5 loadlin-1.4 lpr
lucid-emacs-19.10 lynx-2.2 lynx-2.2+term man-1.3 man-page-source manpages-1.2
mc-0.6 minicom-1.6 modutils-0.99.15 mt-st-0.1 ncftp-1.7.3 ncurses-1.8.1
ncurses-1.8.5 nn-6.4.18 p2c-1.19 perl-4.0pl36 perl-5.00a pine-3.89 pppd-0.1.4
procps-0.95 quota-1.32 sasteroids-1.3 sc-6.21 selection-1.5 seyon-2.14c
slackware-color-ls smail-3.1.28 spider splitvt-1.5.2 stix sudo-1.2 
svgalib-1.11 sysklogd-1.2 sysvinit-2.4 szrz tcpip(net032d) tcsh-6.04
term-1.14 tetris tin-1.2pl2 tncftp-1.7.3 tools-2.11 transfig-2.1.8 trn-3.4.1
unarj230 unzip-5.0p1 util-linux-1.6 uucp-1.04 uucp-1.05 vim-2.0 workbone-0.1
workman-1.2.2a x11r6 x3270-3.0.1.3 xboard-3.0p9 xbombs xcolormap xcuckoo
xfig-2.1.8 xfilemanager-0.5 xfm-1.2 xfractint-2.03 xfsprogs xgrab-2.3
xgrabsc-2.3 xhextris xlander xlock-23.21p2.3 xmahjongg xmenu xpaint-2.1
xpm-3.3 xpm3icons xroach xspread-2.1 xtetris xv-3.01 xvier xview-3.2 
xxgdb-1.08 zip-1.9 zoo-2.10 zsh-2.4

Slackware also contains the following extra source:

mbase50.tar.gz, mbase51.tar.gz, wu-ftpd-2.4.linux.tar.gz, wbuild-1.17.tar.gz
mmdf-IIb-4.3.tar.gz (a Sendmail/Smail replacement), the iBCS2 emulator, DOSemu,
gated-routed, GNU-finger-1.37, sendmail-5.67b+IDA1.5.tar.gz, and all the Free
X Widgets from the Free Widget Foundation.

PRICES AND ORDERING

The suggested retail price of Slackware Professional 2.0 from 
		VITAL is $50.00 + shipping. 
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Cheers

Rohit Mehrotra
Email: [email-masked]
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