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1. Raven Issue Four

This is Raven, Issue-4 (preview). It is £3 shareware, see Issue-One for more details.

This issue is about upgrading your kernel to 2.0.0, either from 1.2.13 or from whatever you have on your CDROM's.

1.1 Out of date update ...

If you are reading this on CDROM, the CDROM probably contains more recent files than are mentioned in Raven. However, other people may have older CDROMS, which didn't have the 2.0 series on them.

Many packages got renamed to "2.0" to match the kernel, and maybe a few minor bug fixes, but there are many CDROM's with usable packages (modules PPP etc), with the older numbers.

Packages intended for Linux 1.3.nn are "correct" for Linux 2.0, but may be hard to find on older CDROM's. To assist thoses with older CDROM's I have not updated the version numbers in Issue-4. Instead I shall simply delete it, when everyone has moved to 2.0.

IE If you can find these packages, they should work with Linux 2.0. If you can find more recent versions, good.

1.2 Yet to come

I am putting out this preview of Issue-Four, in the hope that it may be of use, to people upgrading.

I hope to be adding sections that are more specific to actual current distributions, eg RedHat-3.0.3, but you will have to compare your favourite distribution with the current version levels, and ask your supplier what they think they are up to.

#### quoted from /usr/src/linux-2.0.0/Documentation/Changes ####

- Kernel modules         Stable: 1.3.57, Exp: 1.3.69k
- PPP daemon             Stable: 2.2.0f
- Dynamic linker (ld.so) 1.7.14
- GNU CC                 2.7.2
- Binutils               2.6.0.14
- Linux C Library        Stable:  5.2.18, Beta:  5.3.12
- Linux C++ Library      2.7.1.4
- Termcap                2.0.8
- Procps                 0.99a
- Gpm                    1.09
- SysVinit               2.62
- Util-linux             2.5

1.3 GCC 2.7.2

I have an older Slackware with GCC 2.7.0, and it all compiles ok, (settings for i486). You may need to upgrade to 2.7.2, and if you do, you should check that everything that used to compile and run, still does.


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