Linux-Announce Digest #343, Volume #3 Sun, 24 Jan 99 10:14:12 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Accelerated-X new support, laptops, graphics chips, Multihead (Jeremy
Chatfield)
LOCAL: Linux/Unix Users' Group of Virginia Tech meeting, Wed Jan. 27th (Josh Baugher)
CORRECTION: LogWatch 1.6.1 *really* released ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
dosemu-directsb patch - transparent SB support for DOS programs.
COMMERCIAL: S-PLUS Data Analysis Software now Available on Linux (Cheryl Mauer)
LOCAL: Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Linux Users Group - Next Meeting ("Harwood, Ron")
ILU 2.0alpha14 - CORBA distributed objects for Linux (Bill Janssen)
WebMaker 0.8.0 - HTML Editor for Unix (Alexei Dets)
COMMERCIAL: TurboLinux 3.0.1 ("Justin Ryan \[PHT\]")
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From: Jeremy Chatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Accelerated-X new support, laptops, graphics chips, Multihead
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:42:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Xi Graphics has recently provided updates adding support for new
laptops, new multihead boards and graphics boards or correcting problems
in previous support. Updates may be applied to any Accelerated-X 4.1.2
Server on supported operating systems (BSD/OS, FreeBSD, INTERACTIVE,
Linux, Open Server, Solaris/x86).
Accelerated-X (AX) for Intel processors
URL ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates/accelx/desktop/4.1.2/intel
D4102.028 Number 9 Revolution IV FPD + SGI 1600SW FPD
D4102.027 ATI update
D4102.026 Matrox Millennium G200 PCI/SDRAM
Accelerated-X (PX) for Alpha processors (Red Hat 5.2)
URL ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates/accelx/desktop/4.1.2/alpha-processor
P4102.001 Matrox Millennium G200 PCI/SDRAM
Accelerated-X Laptop (LX) for Intel processors
URL ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates/accelx/laptop/4.1.2
L4102.021 Toshiba Satellite Pro 490XCDT (S3 ViRGE MX)
L4102.020 Cyrix MediaGX Laptop Mobo
L4102.019 IBM ThinkPad 770X (Trident Cyber 9397 DVD)
Accelerated-X Multi-head (MX) for Intel processors
URL ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates/accelx/multihead/4.1.2
M4102.008 Colorgraphics Predator 2/4 AGP (S3 Savage3D)
M4102.007 Matrox Quad Productiva G100 board
Each update has a gzipped tarchive and a text file describing the update
and the update procedure. The INDEX file in each product directory
lists all updates and pre-requisite updates. A summary of each update
is given below.
Benchmarks are available from the Xi Graphics web site at
http://www.xig.com . Comparitive benchmarks with XFree86 3.3.3.1 may be
available if the chipset is supported. Generally, using the Xmark'93
benchmark shows that 24bpp speeds are at least 40% and up to 400%
greater than those of XFree86 3.3.3.1 and in 8bpp are at least 30% and
up to 150% greater than XFree86. Most humans find a 10% speed change is
barely visible in sequential testing and that a 20% speed difference is
clearly visible. No hardware acceleration is possible for pixmap
display, so tests and environments relying on pixmap pushing are
unlikely to show speed differences. Accelerated-X does not use specific
hardware accelerations on specific chipsets for reliability reasons, so
comparison of individual results may show some tests in which
Accelerated-X is slower; we do sacrifice even greater speed for the sake
of improved reliability and correctness.
Accelerated-X Servers pass X Protocol Conformance Tests in all color
depths on all tested boards, as measured by the freely available X Test
Suite when corrected for an arc drawing test error in the free test
suite. None of the tested XFree86 Servers passed in all color depths on
any tested board. All Accelerated-X Servers executed the X Test Suite
and x11perf benchmarks without requiring a reboot or causing a system
failure. Some XFree86 Servers caused problems requiring reboot during
conformance or benchmark testing in one or more color depths; the web
site is annotated with more detail.
Accelerated-X offers true overlay support (concurrent 24bpp image plane
and 8bpp overlay plane) on suitable hardware, hardware gamma color
correction on all capable chips and features such as Velvet Mouse, hot
key internal/external display switching are also offered, as well as
more visuals, more pixmap formats, etc. 24bpp packed pixel support is
offered on all capable hardware and is implemented to avoid the problems
associated with XFree86 24bpp packed operations.
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D4102.028 - SGI1600SW + Number 9 Revolution IV FPD
This adds support for a variant of the Number 9 Revolution IV display
adapter with Flat Panel Display digital interface connector for the SGI
1600SW 1600x1024 flat panel display. This update explicitly supports
the AGP version of the board; the PCI version is still under QA test.
Benchmarks, measured on a Pentium II/266MHz, AGP, 1600x1024:
8bpp 16bpp 24bpp
Xaccel 24.7 21.3 15.3
Benchmarks on a Pentium II/350Mhz, AGP, 1600x1024:
Xaccel 30.1 25.7 17.5
XF86_I128 3.3.3.1 18.5 15.3 11.8
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D4102.027 - ATI update
This is a general update for ATI graphics chips experiencing text
restore problems on Server termination or VT switching.
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D4102.026 - Matrox Millennium G200 PCI/SDRAM
A PCI version of the Matrox G200 is now available, using SDRAM rather
than the faster SGRAM. We have benchmarked the PCI board with two bus
speeds and also compared with the AGP/SGRAM version. The benchmarks for
the AGP board were gathered using an earlier update (update D4102.019)
so the comparison is with the XFree86 Server available at that time. If
there is sufficient interest we can repeat these tests with the current
revs of both Servers on AGP. The numbers should be adequate to provide
a feel for what is happening between PCI/SDRAM and AGP/SGRAM and between
233MHz with an AGP 66Mhz bus and 350MHz with the 100MHz bus speed.
Making this a little more complex is the MTRR setting; the 233MHz system
enabled MTRR for the PCI card tests and disabled it for the AGP tests...
Which is why the 233/PCI test result is faster than the 233/AGP test
result in 8bpp and 16bpp.
Benchmark, Pentium II/350:
8bpp 16bpp 24bpp
Xaccel, PCI/SDRAM 38.5 29.4 25.7
Xaccel, AGP/SGRAM 42.1 31.4 29.4
XFCom_Matrox 3.3.2, AGP/SGRAM 30.0 23.9 20.4
Benchmark, Pentium II/233:
Xaccel, PCI/SDRAM 33.5 26.1 21.9
XF86_SVGA 3.3.3.1, PCI/SDRAM 22.9 18.5 14.9
Xaccel, AGP/SGRAM 31.9 24.0 22.5
XFCom_Matrox 3.3.2, AGP/SGRAM 22.0 18.0 15.6
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P4102.001 - Alpha processor, Matrox Millennium G200 PCI/SDRAM
This is the first update for Accelerated-X on the Alpha processor,
adding support for the Matrox G200 PCI.
Benchmark, Alpha/366MHz:
Xaccel 28.1 21.8 19.9
Xmetro 4.2 3.5 3.7
We were unable to find a precompiled XFree86 Server for the Millennium
G200 for Alpha.
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L4102.021 - Toshiba Satellite Pro 490XCDT (S3 ViRGE MX)
Explicit support added for this laptop model.
Benchmark, Pentium II/266, PCI:
1024x768 1024x768 800x600
8bpp 16bpp 24bpp
Xaccel 19.2 14.4 12.4
XF86_SVGA 3.3.3.1 7.2 4.7 2.4
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L4102.020 - Cyrix MediaGX Laptop motherboard
This is newly available support for the Cyrix MediaGX for the Laptop
Accelerated-X Server. Note that the chipset does not support 24bpp
operation, so no benchmark is available.
Benchmark, Cyrix 233 MMX-S, 2.5MB RAM:
1024x768 800x600
8bpp 16bpp
Xaccel 6.8 4.8
We could not identify an XFree86 Server for this chipset.
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L4102.019 - IBM ThinkPad 770X (Trident Cyber 9397 DVD)
This laptop uses a variant of the Trident Cyber 9397, the 9397 DVD.
This update adds support for this chip version and explicit support for
the IBM ThinkPad 770X. Because we were time constrained to return the
loaned system to a customer we were unable to collect benchmark
results. We could not identify an XFree86 Server for this machine,
because the 9397 DVD fails when driven as a 9397.
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M4102.008 - Colorgraphics Predator 2/4 AGP (S3 Savage3D)
A new multihead board (2 or 4 heads per board, up to 8 heads supported
by Accelerated-X Multihead) from Colorgraphics using the S3 Savage3D
chipset. The benchmark is obtained from a single screen only. Xi
Graphics is not aware of any benchmark for concurrent multihead testing.
Benchmark, Pentium II/266, AGP:
8bpp 16bpp 24bpp
Xaccel 24.3 19.0 14.7
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M4102.007 - Matrox Productiva G100, quad
This is a single board multihead solution from Matrox with four G100
chips. Accelerated-X supports one or two boards for up to eight
heads. The benchmark speed on a single head is similar to that of the
previously announced single head G100 support.
Benchmark, Pentium II/266, PCI:
8bpp 16bpp 24bpp
Xaccel 29.2 23.7 18.4
Benchmark, single head G100, Pentium II/350, PCI:
Xaccel 34.2 25.5 21.6
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Cheers, JeremyC.
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Commercial X Products: Servers, CDE, contracts and custom development
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From: Josh Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux/Unix Users' Group of Virginia Tech meeting, Wed Jan. 27th
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:38:51 GMT
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Linux/Unix Users' Group of Virginia Tech meeting, Wednesday Jan. 27th
The Linux/Unix Users' Group of Virginia Tech announces their first
meeting of the year:
- - Wednesday, Jan. 27th, 7-9 PM, room 238 Squires Student Center
Squires is located on the campus of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Anyone
interested in Linux, *BSD, or any other Unix or Unix-like OS is welcome to
attend. Come join us!
A proposed agenda looks like this:
1.) Meeting days and times.
2.) Service Level Agreement with AIS User Services.
3.) Paperwork for funding.
4.) Space request in Squires
5.) Officially registering our new advisor.
6.) Activities for upcoming semester.
7.) Status of current projects: web page, etc.
8.) Super bowl party?
9.) New members!
Our *outdated* web site is located at:
http://www.vt.edu:10021/org/linux/
If you need directions to campus or Squires, please e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- - Josh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CORRECTION: LogWatch 1.6.1 *really* released
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:49:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The last announcement was old and had many errors, here is the right
one.
Announcing LogWatch 1.6.1 for Red Hat Linux 5.X!
*DESCRIPTION*
LogWatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go
through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas
that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out
of the package on almost all Red Hat Linux 5.X systems.
*RELEASE NOTES*
- - Made SSHD output prettier
- - Pretty good support for BIND 8.X
- - Made some changes for Red Hat Linux 5.2
Get the non-achitecture-specific RPM:
ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/RPMS/noarch/logwatch-1.6.1-1.noarch.rpm
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Send all comments and questions to:
Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dosemu-directsb patch - transparent SB support for DOS programs.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:52:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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If you have Sound Blaster compatible device and want to run it from linux
DOS emulator, this patch for you. This patch is something like a wrapper,
which directs dosemu's commands through the kernel layer to the Sound Blaster
and delivers signals from the device to the dosemu. One part of this patch
is a patch itself, another part is kernel module. Kernel module is designed
for kernels 2.0.x. I haven't tested it against 2.1.x kernels, so if it will
scrap - sorry. You won't hear music in DOOM II, because of its tricks with
timer... But you will probably hear music and digital effects of WarCraft II.
Visit homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/5426/index.html
Or
Download (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/5426/data/):
dosemu-0.67.9-directsb.diff.gz - patch against dosemu-0.67.9
dosemu-0.67.9-sbpatch.tar.gz - patched dosemu-0.67.9
Valery
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From: Cheryl Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: S-PLUS Data Analysis Software now Available on Linux
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:37:15 GMT
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S-PLUS 5 is an advanced data analysis, visualization, and statistical
modeling package designed for researchers, quantitative analysts and
technical professionals. If you would like more information about the
new Linux version please visit:
http://www.mathsoft.com/splus/splsprod/splslinux.htm
Cheryl Mauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Harwood, Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Linux Users Group - Next Meeting
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:39:47 GMT
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When: Wednesday February 10th, 1999 - 6:30pm
Where: Room E233 Mohawk College - Fennel Campus (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Need directions? See our map at
http://hlug.mohawkc.on.ca/images/hamilton.jpg (The red star is the
college) or call the college at (905)575-1212.
As always we have our mini-installfest! Bring in your PC (and mouse) we'll
have monitors and keyboards, and LINUX distributions (Redhat 5.2, Slackware
3.6, Caldera Open Linux Lite, ???) [You'll need either a CD-ROM or a network
card though.]
Also, demonstrations on (at least what is lined up at this point):
Andrew Smedley is going to do a presentation on "Mini-Linux"
By request I will be doing a presentation/tutorial on setting up PPP for
Linux.
Who knows what else?
As always, I'm still looking for other presenters! Does anyone else have
anything they'd like to present? (or would like to see presented?) Software
demonstrations are always cool.
Also, don't forget to check out the HLUG news at
http://hlug.mohawkc.on.ca/HyperNews/get/forums/hlug1.html
Regards,
Ron Harwood - Hamilton Linux Users Group
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hlug.mohawkc.on.ca
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Janssen)
Subject: ILU 2.0alpha14 - CORBA distributed objects for Linux
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:46:48 GMT
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This is to announce the availability of an alpha release of ILU 2.0,
ILU 2.0alpha14. See ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html to
download the sources for UNIX or Windows. This release has been
tested with Redhat 5.2.
The Inter-Language Unification system (ILU) is a multi-language object
interface system. The object interfaces provided by ILU hide
implementation distinctions between different languages, between
different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can
be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class
libraries") with well-specified language-independent interfaces. It
can also be used to implement distributed systems. It can also be
used to define and document interfaces between the modules of
non-distributed programs. ILU interfaces can be specified in either
the OMG's IDL language, or in ILU's Interface Specification Language,
which allows extensions to the CORBA spec. Programming languages
supported in 2.0alpha14 are ANSI C, Common Lisp, Java (1.1.x and 1.2),
and Python (through 1.5.x); rough Guile Scheme and C++ support is also
present. Additional ILU support for Perl is freely available from
outside sources. Operating systems supported in 2.0alpha14 are all
Windows platforms with Win32 and WinSock, and all UNIX platforms with
BSD sockets and minimal POSIX compliance, including Linux, Solaris,
AIX, IRIX, and OSF/1. 2.0alpha14 supports interoperability with ONC
RPC services, OMG CORBA services, World Wide Web HTTP services, and
W3C HTTP-NG services. ``Plug-in'' extensibility is provided for RPC
message formats, message transport schemes, URL schemes, accounting
and authorization identity types, threading and event loop processing,
and various other things. An implementation of the IETF's Common
Authentication Technology working group's Generic Security Service
(GSS) is provided, and can be used to wrap client-server connections
in a security context. An XML parser is provided. ILU is provided
free for unrestricted use.
Known bugs are listed in the README file. Despite being an alpha
release, 2.0alpha14 is very stable along a number of dimensions.
Principal areas still under development, and hence unstable, are: the
C++ mapping, the HTTP-NG protocols, and the specific contents of
the ILU profile in the OMG CORBA IOR.
Patches will be appearing in the file
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/2.0a14/patches.html. Please fetch
this file and apply the patches before attempting to build ILU. See
the beginning of the patch file for information on how to apply
patches.
Changes from 2.0alpha13 to 2.0alpha14
- -------------------------------------
* New Type UID Hash Algorithm. This release introduces a documented
algorithm for producing the ILU `type hash' for an ISL type. It's
documented in the ILU manual, in the section entitled "Algorithm
for Generation of Structural-Hash Type IDs". This algorithm will
become the default algorithm for the next release, but the old
algorithm is still the default for this release. You can enable
the new algorithm with the configuration switch
-enable-version-2-type-uids. We recommend that you do this, if
possible. ILU configured with the version 2 type uids will *not*
be on-the-wire compatible with ILU configured with the old type
uids.
* Directives in ISL. The ISL syntax has an experimental directives
concept. Expect changes before this is made final.
* Java support. Supports running ILU and a standard CORBA ORB in
the same address space. Optional support for JNI based native
methods. Support for jdk1.2. Support for Microsoft sdk3.1.
Switchable usage of org.omg.CORBA classes (Java core for jdk1.2 or
provided by ILU for jdk1.1). No more problems with the boot
class path. Configuration process slightly improved.
* Java API changes. Default use of org.omg.CORBA.Object interface
as base type for all ILU stubbed objects. Corba system exceptions
are no longer subclassed; other minor API changes required for
sharing address space with standard ORBs. Most users shouldn't
notice these changes.
* Java serialization support. Most Java classes and interfaces
corresponding to ISL types are now serializable. Among other
things, this allows ILU objects to be passed via `Java RMI'.
Also, a new ILU interface exists which allows transport of
arbitrary Java serializable objects with ILU. Third, a very
experimental `DIRECTIVE-EXPERIMENTAL' mechanism which optionally
allows classes implementing ILU object types to avoid extending
org.omg.CORBA.Object (and optionally, extend java.rmi.Remote).
Also, custom mapping may now be specified in the ISL file using
the `DIRECTIVE-EXPERIMENTAL' keyword.
* Support for Python CORBA mapping. This release includes a
preliminary version of the CORBA mapping for Python. You should
configure ILU with --enable-corba-python-mapping to get this form
of Python support, instead of the "classic" version documented in
the ILU reference manual. See
`http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/python/pymap.htm' for
more information on this mapping.
* Python has experimental support for passing dictionaries. If
--enable-python-dictionaries is specified during configuration, the
mapping of ISL to Python generated by the stubber will be modified
as follows: If a sequence type has a base type which is a record
type with two fields, `name' and `value', and the type of the
`name' field is an integer or string type, and the name of the
sequence type ends with `"dict"' or `"Dict"', the sequence type
will be mapped to a Python dictionary instead of to a list. The
key value of each item in the dictionary will be the value of the
`name' field of a record value, and the value value of the item
will be the value of the corresponding `value' field of the same
record value. This mapping may change in the future.
* Python `auto-import' of ILU interfaces now enabled by default. In
this release, loading of the Python `ilu' module will cause a call
to `ilu.AutoImport()', with no parameters. This can be defeated
by setting the environment variable
`ILU_PYTHON_DISABLE_AUTOIMPORT' before loading the `ilu' module,
and `ilu.AutoImport' can still be called manually at a later time.
* Lisp "old-style" method names not produced by default. The
default for lisp is to not produce the old-style method names.
Users who need them should specify the
--enable-old-lisp-method-names configuration switch to get them.
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Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (650) 812-4763 FAX: (650) 812-4777
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304
URL: ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/misc/janssen.html
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Subject: WebMaker 0.8.0 - HTML Editor for Unix
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:50:48 GMT
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Hi!
Changes in this release:
Full HTML 4.0 support. If some tag editing is not working (or you
think not properly working) please inform me. Changed
behaviour with Netscape - it is automaticaly started now if
wasn't running. Fixed serious bugs that can lead to WebMaker
crash under some conditions.
Next version will be mainly interface improvements, so any comments and
wishes regarding this _greatly_ appreciated.
Homepage: http://www.services.ru/linux/webmaker/
WBW, Alexei
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From: "Justin Ryan \[PHT\]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: TurboLinux 3.0.1
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:47:29 GMT
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Pacific HiTech is proud to announce TurboLinux 3.0.1. TL 3.0.1 is a boxed
set, 3 cd's + manual (1 CD : packages, 1 CD: source, 1 CD : Corel WP8
Suite). TL 3.0.1 can be downloaded from ftp.pht.com (instructions at
http://www.turbolinux.com), purchased at http://www.turbolinux.com/orders/ ,
and will soon be available from cheapbytes. The boxed set is $49.95 from
PHT, there is also a Japanese version and a UK distributor listed on the
orders page.
- -Justin
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Justin Ryan
Internet/Developer Relations Associate
Pacific HiTech / TurboLinux
http://www.turbolinux.com/
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