From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 4 21:54:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id VAA25902 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 21:54:00 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA25894 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 21:53:58 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA02980 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 21:53:33 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: guest account: Yggdrasil information Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 21:53:31 -0800 Message-ID: <2979.789285211@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This will take a little while to read and believe me, I know how much mail most of you get, but it's nonetheless worth slogging all the way through it. Yes, most of it is unabashed sales hype. Ignore that and concentrate on the features list. I have this CD and it's not lying about the degree of flexibility it provides. NetBSD is not the competition. This is. When and where we can match some of these features (and I not only think we can, I KNOW we can!), we should strive to do so! I certainly will be! Thanks! Jordan ------- Forwarded Message Subject: Yggdrasil information YGGDRASIL PLUG-AND-PLAY LINUX SUMMER 1994 CONTENTS: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. Executive Summary 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 New Features San Jose, CA 95129-1034 About The Company (408) 261-6630, fax (408) 261-6631 Highlights info@yggdrasil.com Product Philosophy What Makes Plug-and-Play Linux Easy To Use? Software Version Numbers Hardware Compatability How to get a free copy How to get a copy by tomorrow Subscriptions Upgrades and Crossgrades The Linux Bible OSF/Motif Resellers and Technical Support Vendors Wanted Technical Support Direct sales order form EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 17 MAY 1994 SAN JOSE, California---Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated has shipped a Linux-based operating system release that includes a fully buildable source tree, hybrid hard disk/CDROM installation, and numerous automated internet connectivity features, including graphical SLIP configuration and automated delivery of outgoing mail to the internet through a relay machine set up for this purpose at Yggdrasil. The new $39.95 release has actually been shipping since May 12, but Yggdrasil delayed announcing until it could fill unexpectedly large advance orders from resellers who had been given advance product information. The company now expects to have a unit volume for this release of at least one quarter that of Novell UnixWare. Yggdrasil also expanded its product line with OSF/Motif for Linux and an eight hundred page book entitled "The Linux Bible" that includes the collected works of the Linux Documentation Project, which is not part of Yggdrasil, but which will receive a donation of one dollar per copy, plus a second dollar on direct sales. In addition, $5 per copy of OSF/Motif will be donated to the development of a free Motif clone, which is the subject of a separate announcement. For more information, contact Cyndi June at (408) 261-6630, fax (408) 261-6631, or send email to info@yggdrasil.com. PRESS CONTACT: Adam J. Richter (408) 261-6630 NEW FEATURES ARCHITECTURAL o FULLY BUILDABLE SOURCE TREE. Rebuild the whole system with "cd /usr/src ; make install-clean". Use the new "whence" command find source code for a file. For example: % whence csh /usr/bin/tcsh: linux dynamically linked /usr/bin/tcsh installed from /usr/src/usr.bin/tcsh-6.04/tcsh o HYBRID INSTALLATION. Any software not found on your hard disk is run from the CDROM if the CD is mounted. Useful for infrequently used programs or for trying out software before deciding whether or not to install it. o TRANSPARENT COMPRESSION. CD looks like a 1GB+ filesystem. PERFORMANCE o SCSI clustering, multisector IDE (turned off by default). Most binaries, including the entire X window system, the kernel, the C compiler, and emacs compiled with "-O6." SCSI clustering alone seems to have reduced the build time on the source tree on a 486DX2-66 from 28 hours to 22. o Cd dependent installation now puts the shared C library and bash on the hard disk, accelerating execution of almost all binaries and shell scripts. CD dependent configuration now uses 4MB of disk and is actually a bit of a misnomer because you *can* run it without the CD mounted, although you will be able to do little more than mount the CD. INTERNET CONNECTIVITY o INTERNET SHELL ACCESS up to 1 month or $40 (about 20 hours) with a major New England internet provider. If you're not in New England, you can save on the long distance charges by using the CompuServe from most populated areas of the world. (CompuServe-Net, AT&T and other phone bills are *not* included in the free service). You must be 18 or older, because the service has some "adult" areas. You must sign the credit card authorization for usage after the first $40 or first month, although it is perfectly OK to cancel after your free time has expired. o ET PHONE HOME. The system automatically delivers internet mail through the Yggdrasil BBS! (Of course, people cannot reply to your email.) The install script even attempts to figure out where your modem is. You must have UUCP installed or accessible from the CDROM, and you must have the system installed on your hard disk. Configuring ethernet with the graphical control panel switches internet email to direct delivery. This release should make it easy for anyone to send email to the internet. o Graphical control panels for incoming InterNetNews (NNTP), outgoing UUCP, and serial internet connections by SLIP or CSLIP, preconfigured with sample values, so you just change a few fields and press "save." This should save you a lot of time and work if you're connecting to the internet. These are in addition to the existing graphical control panels. Screen snapshots in that illustrate the graphical control panel and multimedia email features are FTPable from yggdrsail.com: X windows screen dumps: ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/pictures/*.xwd View with "xwud -in file.xwd" GIF files: ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/pictures/*.gif View with "display *.gif" (if you use ImageMagic), or "xv *.gif" (if you use xv). You can also have these images shown on your internet color X display by logging into yggdrasil.com as "rdemo". o MULTIMEDIA EMAIL. When you log in as "guest", and start X windows, you are reminded to read multimedia email with Andrew "messages", which comes preconfigured with a sample multimedia email message. The message includes hyperlinks to some documentation and a picture of Saturn. Multimedia email is delivered just like regular email, so you can, for example, send mail to the internet and they will be routed through the Yggdrasil BBS for delivery. If you've put off learning a multimedia email system, this is an easy way to take the plunge. MISCELLANEOUS o Linux 1.1 kernel, X11R5 Xfree86 2.1 installed plus pristine X11R6 (Xfree86 3.0) tar files, GCC 2.5.8, libc 4.5.26. o A response card for a free copy THE LINUX JOURNAL. o MOTIF: Locked copy of MetroLink Motif on the CD (also available on floppies) costs $149.95 per CPU. For each copy that we sell, $5 is donated to the development of a free motif clone. Ours is the only Linux Motif with a simple no-nonsense license statement instead of one of those ridiculous shrinkwrap licenses. PRICE CUT o $49.95 --> $39.95. Reseller prices cut too. o Upgrade or crossgrade. Send us a complete copy of any previous Yggdrasil release and deduct another $10 from your order. Alternatively, deduct $10 if you send us a complete copy of any competing product *and* tell us where you bought it so that we can make sure that your favorite computer store also carries our products. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com. ABOUT THE COMPANY In December 1992, Yggdrasil published the first free operating system CDROM ever. Since then, Yggdrasil distributions have been the first operating sytems to include as standard the ability to run directly from CDROM, multimedia facilities (editting, mail, sound IO), "fill in the blanks" graphical control panels for system administration, and now, with the Summer 1994 release, reconfigurable hybrid hard disk/CDROM installation, transparent decompression of the CDROM, and numerous automated internet connectivity features, including graphical SLIP and InterNetNews configuration, automated email configuration, and automatic routing of outgoing internet mail through the Yggdrasil bulletin board system. Yggdrasil releases have only about a quarter of the unit volume of Novell UnixWare or NeXTStep, but Yggdrasil is catching up, and has already passed many smaller operating systems. Yggdrasil's growth helps the free software community. To help fund the Free Software Foundation, Yggdrasil resells FSF manuals. Yggdrasil funded improvements in the seagate SCSI driver, and the development of the z5380 scsi driver used in Trantors and adapted by others to the MediaVision ProAudioSpectrum-16. These improvements were returned to Linus Torvald's Linux kernel distribution. Yggdrasil made the deals that insured freeness of the iso9660 filesystem writer and Mitsumi CDROM programming information. $1 The Linux Bible's price supports the Linux Documentation Project. $5 per copy of Motif purchased from Yggdrasil goes to the development of a free Motif clone. Yggdrasil supports the future of free software, part of which involves creating the world's best operating system. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com. HIGHLIGHTS Linux 1.1 kernel supporting most popular CDROM drives, an easy-to-use installation script, plus a graphical user interface for system configuration, The X Window System: X11R5 Xfree86 2.1 installed plus the pristine X11R6 distribution tar files. Xlib/Xt X windows libraries, the Tcl/Tk programming language and toolkit, the Xview 3.2 OpenLook(tm) toolkit, InterViews C++ toolkit, The Andrew System: version 6.2, including the ez editor for easy creation and reading of documents with imbedded images, equations, spreadsheets, hypertext links, and many other media types. Networking with TCP/IP, NFS and other Internet protocols. Games: asteroids, battle zone, chess, mille bornes, othello, pool, shogi, solitaire, tetris, and connect four. Multimedia: viewers for JPEG, GIF, TIFF and other image formats, MPEG video, sound, Text editors: the elvis vi clone, GNU Emacs with calc mode, and Lucid GNU Emacs (better graphical user interface). Desktop Publishing: TeX and groff typesetting packages with X previewers, and ghostscript, a postscript interpreter for X windows, faxes and a variety of printers, Telecommunications: Z-modem, Taylor UUCP, mail reader, threaded USENET News reader, with support for reading MIME multimedia messages with imbedded images, full motion video and sound. the Postgres 4.1 remote database system, Programming Languages: GNU C++, GNU ANSI C, FORTRAN-to-C and Pascal-to-C translators, and Prolog, Enhanced development environment: GNU debugger, bison, flex, GNU make, the GNU Coverage Tool, Revision Controls System, Concurrent Version System, and Gnats, System V-style shared memory and interprocess communication, File Systems: a filesystem with long file names, symbolic links, and FIFO's, System V, DOS, and iso9660/rockridge CDROM filesystems. Emulators: a BIOS emulator that can run DOS, an experimental ELF loader, and a snapshot of the WABI Windows emulator under development. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com. PRODUCT PHILOSOPHY At each level of user sophistication, Plug-and-Play Linux offers useful capabilities found in few other operating systems, including other Linux distributions.[1] At the top of the sophistication hierarchy, programmers who want to explore or add the occasional feature know that Yggdrasil is the Linux distribution with a fully buildable source tree and with the ability to automatically trace installed files back to their sources. Can you imagine recompiling the whole operating system to use a new compiler optimization or binary format on a distribution without a buildable source tree? Users who want maximum performance will appreciate that the major system components have been recompiled with "-O6" optimization, and the SCSI clustering which reduces the build time on the source tree from 28 to 22 hours (over 20%) on 486DX2-66. Using IDE? Activate the multisector IDE code! New users or will appreciate the our 94 page manual, the largest of any Linux distribution, complete with screen snapshots of the install process, charts on hardware, software options, device names, and tips on hardware troubleshooting, among other things. The manual is also FTPable from yggdrasil.com:/pub/summer94/manual/*. A characteristic that benefits everybody, but is especially important to new users and users who value their time highly, is plug-and-play installation, which is the subject of the next section: "What Makes Plug-and-Play Linux So Easy To Use?" [1] Due credit: This philosophy was inspired by Guy Kawasaki's description of "deep" products in his concise insightful book, "The Macintosh Way." Boycott Apple, but read this book. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 408-261-6630, fax 408-261-6631, info@yggdrasil.com. WHAT MAKES PLUG-AND-PLAY LINUX SO EASY TO USE? Everybody, especially new users, will appreciate the Plug-and-Play operation for which our product is named. Put the media in a computer with supported hardware, turn the computer on, and it's running everything, straight from the CDROM. Unlike other Linux distributions, Plug-and-Play Linux automatically figures out what kind of CDROM is on the system, and uses it. The login screen lists a number of preconfigured user names, including "install", which installs the system, giving paragraphs of explanation about every question that it asks the user. The install script even searches for a modem, and, upon finding it, configures mail and UUCP so that mail sent to an internet address is transparently delivered through a bulletin board system at Yggdrasil. X windows configuration is automated too, prompting the user for configuration information the first time "xinit" is run. The configuration script automatically chooses sensible defaults based on what type of video display and what type of mouse, if any, the kernel detected at start-up. From X windows, a graphical control panel allows simple "fill in the blanks" configuration of networking, SLIP, outgoing UUCP, the printer, NNTP, and many other features that previously required the knowledge of a system administrator to configure. Even day to day operating is simpler with Plug-and-Play Linux. A computer should not ask you for information that it can easily figure out for itself. With Plug-and-Play Linux, when you mount a device without specifying the filesystem type, the system automatically figures out what kind of filesystem is on the device and uses it. Device drivers in Plug-and-Play Linux don't print messages announcing the absence of hardware that you don't have, and they don't interrupt you with information about routine retries (turning on debugging will, of course, make both of these things happen). Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 SOFTWARE VERSION NUMBERS San Jose, CA 95129-1024 (408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631 info@yggdrasil.com Here is a list of version numbers of most software packages in Plug-and-Play Linux. A complete "ls -lR" of the CDROM is FTPable from yggdrasil.com:pub/summer94/ls-lR. acct-1.3 gnuchess-4.0.pl68 reve-1.4.0 adagio-0.4o gnugo-1.1 rlogin-5.33 agrep-2.04 gnuplot-3.5 rlogind-5.53 andrew-6.2 gnushogi-1.1 routed-5.23 archie-1.4.1-FIX grep-2.0 rpc-1.00 at-1.1 groff-1.09 rsh-5.24 auis-6.2 gwm-1.7o rshd-5.38 aumix-0.2 gzip-1.2.4 ruptime-5.70 autoconf-1.9 hfs-0.2 rwho-5.50 bash-1.13.5 host-1.01 rwhod-5.19 bbgopher-1.6 ibcs-940419 sed-2.03 bc-1.02 ifs-5 shellutils-1.9.4 bin86-0.1 ImageMagic-2.3.2 smail-3.1.28 bind-4.83l inetd-5.30 smalltalk-1.1.1 binutils-1.9l.3 inn-1.4 sound-2.4 bison-1.22 InterViews-3.1 sox-7 blt-1.5 ismodem-1.00 strace-2 bootlin-4 ispell-4.0 syslogd-5.27 bootpd-2.10a itcl-1.3 talk-5.50a byacc-1.9 IV-2_6 talkd-5.80 capture-1.00 joystick-0.7 tar-1.11.2 cbzone-1.00 jpeg-4a tcl-7.3 cdwrite-1.0 kbd-0.86 tclX-7.3a checker-0.4 kterm-5.2.0 tcpd-1.40 checklinks-1.00 ld.so-1.4.3 tcsh-6.04 cluster-1.00 lemacs-19.9 telnet-5.52 cpio-2.3 less-177 term-1.1.4 cron-2.0 lha-1.00 texinfo-3.1 cvs-1.3 libc-4.5.26 textutils-1.9 dc-0.2 libc_s-940330 tftp-5.10 dejagnu-1.2 libg++-2.5.3 tftpd-5.13 devX100-12 lilo-14 tiff-3.2beta devX75-12 linux-1.1 time-1.5 diffutils-2.6 lpd-5.90 tk-3.6p1 dip-3.3.7-lilo-3.2 m4-1.1 tkinfo-0.6 dlltools-2.11 mailx-5.3b tknews-1.2b dosemu-0.50pl1 majordomo-1.62 tput-1.0 dosfsck-1.0 make-3.70 trn-3.2 double-0.0 malloc-930716 UIT-3 dvips-5.518 man-1.1 umsdos-0.2 e2fsprogs-0.5 metamail-2.6 usermaint-1.0 elm-2.4 minicom-1.60 util-linux-1.5 elvis-1.7 mkdosfs-0.2 uucp-1.04-doc emacs-19.22 mkisofs-1.01 uucp-1.04-erc f2c-1994.April.20 mm-1.07 uuencode-1.0 file-1.25 modutils-0.99.14 vacation-1.00 fileutils-3.9 mpeg-1.2 wais-8-b5.1 find-3.8 mule-1.0.01 wdiff-0.04 finddev-1.0 ncompress-4.2.4 wine-940412 finger-5.22 ncurses-1.8.5 WorkBone-0.1 fingerd-5.60 net-0.32 wu-ftpd-2.1c fips-0.8 nfsd-1.50 x-11r5 flex-2.4.6 nntpd-15.11a x-11r6 fromto-1.01 oleo-1.5 xaster-1.00 ftape-0.9.10 olvwm-3.3 xbmbrowser-2.0 ftp-5.38 p2c-1.20 xboard-3.0.pl9 fvwm-1.21c patch-2.1 xdos-0.3f gas-2.2 pbmplus-10dec91 xfree86-2.1 gawk-2.15.4 pcnfsd-1.40 xfree86-3.0 gcc-2.5.8 perl-4.036 xgopher-1.3.2 gct-1.4 pine-3.89 xpipeman-1.01 gdb-4.12 ping-5.90 xpm-3.2f gdbm-1.7.1 poeigl-1.11 xpool-1.3 ghostscript-2.6.1pl4 popd-10.01 xrisk-2.14 ghostview-1.5 postbrowse-0.1 XSBprolog-1.2 gic-1.1 postgres-4.1 xshogi-1.1 glib-1.9e procps-0.94 xtank-1.3f gmod-1.0 quota-1.31 xtetris-2.5.2 gmp-1.3.2 rcp-5.32 xvier-1.0 gn-1.19 rcs-5.6.0.1 xview-3.2 gnat-1.78 readlink-1.00 zlibc-0.3 gnats-3.2 realpath-1.0 Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. HARDWARE COMPATABILITY 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 PLUG-AND-PLAY LINUX San Jose, CA 95129-1024 SUMMER 1994 (408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631 info@yggdrasil.com System RAM: 4MB (8MB without swap partition), CPU: 386 or above, Bus: ISA, EISA, or localbus. Disk IDE, RLL, MFM, ESDI, SCSI @strong{with supported SCSI controller}. Configurations range from 3 to 1,028 megabytes of disk. Configurations without non-kernel source tree that can run without the CDROM range from 35 to 300 megabytes. Hard disk can be shared with other operating systems on separate partitions. Tape SCSI tape with supported SCSI controller. Experimental (i.e., unsupported) driver for floppy tape. CDROM Sony CDU-31A, SoundBlaster-compatible CDROM's, Mitsumi, any SCSI CDROM with supported SCSI controller, experimental Sony 531 and 535 driver. SCSI Adaptec 154x, and 174x in enhanced mode, Bustek 542B, Future Domain 8xx, or 16xx, other controllers based on the TMC-950 chip, Ultrastor, Trantor T128. Experimental: other Trantors, Always in-2000, Adaptec AIC 6260 ship (151x/152x boards), Seagate ST-01/ST02, MediaVision and Creative Labs sound cards. Video (For X windows.) 640x480 16-colors for any VGA card, 256 colors and resolutions up to 1280x1024 (for sufficiently fast hardware) for the following chipsets: S3 801/805/911/924/928, 8514, Tseng ET3000/ET4000, Oak oti-067/077/087, Western Digital 90c00/90c10/90c30/90c31, Genoa, ATI Mach8/Mach32, Trident 8900b/c/cl/cs, Cirrus Logic 5420/5422/5426/62x5, NCR 77c22/77c22e, or Compaq AVGA. Hercules monochrome. Diamond cards not supported. Sound Adlib, SoundBlaster, MediaVision, and compatibles. Installable Gravis Ultrasound and MPU-401 drivers are also included. PC speaker is used if sound card is not present. Ethernet Novell NE1000/NE2000/NE2100, 3Com 3c501, 3c503, 3c509, 3c579, AT1500, T1700, D-Link DE600 pocket adapter and ethernet II, AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter, Artisoft LANtastic AE-2, Alta Combo, Cabletron, Hewlett-Packard 27245, 27247, 27250 and PCLAN, Western Digital 8003 and 8013, other 8390-based ethernet cards. HOW TO GET A FREE COPY Yggdrasil is greatly indebted to the many free software developers whose efforts have made this release possible. As a token of our appreciation, any author of any software or documentation in Plug-and-Play Linux can get a free copy. Operators of free Linux BBS's or Linux FTP sites and other major contributors to the Linux community can also get a free copy. We request that Linux BBS operators and FTP sites carry the Plug-and-Play Linux announcement in the appropriate forums, however this request is optional. HOW TO GET A COPY BY TOMORROW [updated 2 June 1994] Plug-and-Play Linux costs $39.95 is and available directly from Yggdrasil or from your local computer, software or technical book store. If Plug-and-Play Linux is not available from your favorite reseller, help promote Linux by making it your mission to change that. Give your reseller our phone number and demand that they carry Plug-and-Play Linux. If you live in the United States, the $5 shipping and handling charge on direct orders includes Second Day Air delivery. For only another $1 you can get Next Day Air delivery, which means that if your order is received before 3:30pm Pacific Time (6:30pm Eastern Time), you can have Plug-and-Play Linux in your hands the next business morning. This $1 shipping upgrade does not apply to orders that include the Linux Bible. For those orders, the total shipping charge for Next Day Air Delivery is $11 (i.e., $6 extra). To order, call (800) 261-6630 or fax the attached order form to (408) 261-6631. International orders take more than a day of course, and shipping is $10. To place an international order, call (408) 261-6630, fax to the order form to (408) 261-6631, or send email to orders@yggdrasil.com. SUBSCRIPTIONS Plug-and-Play Linux is released quarterly. Update subscriptions are available and start with the release following the release that is current when your subscription order is received. For example, an update subscription ordered today would begin with the Fall 1994 release. Prices for update subscriptions are as follows: 1 year (4 releases) $ 99.95 2 years (8 releases) $179.95 3 years (12 releases) $249.95 UPGRADES AND CROSSGRADES Yggdrasil offers a $10 discount for upgrades or crossgrades. Send us your old Yggdrasil release and a check for $29.95 + $5 shipping and handling to upgrade. Or do the same, but send us a competing distribution such any version of SCO, Esix, minix, or one of the CD's with the slackware floppy images, and tell us where you got it, so that we can make sure that your favorite reseller carries our products too. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 THE LINUX BIBLE San Jose, CA 95129-1024 (408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631 info@yggdrasil.com The Linux Bible is a compendium of documents produced by The Linux Documentation Project, a group of volunteer Linux developers. The Linux Bible also includes a copy of the Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux manual. These documents in the Linux Bible include "Linux Installation and Getting Started", "Networking Administator's Guide", "Kernel Hackers Guide", and "How To" guides on the following subjects: o Hardware Compatibility o Linux Distributions o DOS Emulation o Ethernet o Floppy Tape o Installation o Mail o Linux Networking Version 2 o MGR Graphics System (an alternative to X windows) o X-windows o Usenet News o Printing o SCSI o Serial o Sound o UUCP The Linux Bible is printed entirely on recycled paper, and has the green recycled paper logo printed on the back cover. The back cover also has quotations from the PC Week article naming Linux as product of the week. The front of the Linux Bible has artwork that is almost identical to Plug-and-Play Linux, so the two products are a matched set. The back cover has both UPC and ISBN barcodes for easy inventory management. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 OSF/Motif 1.2.x San Jose, CA 95129-1024 (408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631 info@yggdrasil.com Yggdrasil Computing resells OSF/Motif 1.2.3 and donates $5 per copy to the development of a free Motif clone. We are in contact with developers in Protvino, Russia. Our business plan for Motif development is still in its formulative stages, and calls for sending these developers three Linux workstations and paying them salaries of approximately $200 per month for two years. If your organization would like to become involved in funding this work, please contact us and perhaps we can develop a more formal consortium to run and publicize this project. Besides currently being the only distribution that supports the development of a free Motif clone, our distribution is also the only one with a simple no-nonsense license statement instead of those ridiculous ``shrink wrap'' licenses that cast a legal shadow over any type of reverse engineering. Our no nonsense license statement reads as follows: OSF/Motif is proprietary software. Copying of this software is restricted by United States copyright law and international treaties. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a book, with the following single exception. You are authorized to make archival copies of this software for the sole purpose of backing-up the software to protect your investment from loss. For the purposes of this license, ``just like a book'' means, for example, that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just like a book that can't be read by two different people in two different places at the same time, neither can the software be used by two different people in two different places at the same time. The version of Motif that we currently resell is OSF/Motif 1.2.3 from MetroLink. The package consists of four floppy disks and five pages of installation notes in a sealed Mead ``envelok'' folder. We are developing nicer packaging. There is also a locked copy of OSF/Motif on the Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux distribution. Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 San Jose, CA 95129-1024 (408) 261-6630, fax(408) 261-6631 info@yggdrasil.com RESELLERS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT VENDORS WANTED Yggdrasil Computing is always looking for resellers and technical support vendors. If you would like to carry or offer services for our products, please contact us by any convenient method. TECHNICAL SUPPORT Yggdrasil Computing offers an extensive array of technical support services, detailed below. In addition, we also sell "The Linux Bible", an 800+ page book, which is comprised of the works of the Linux Documentation Project, including 16 "How To" guides on hardware compatability, linux distributions, dos emulation, ethernet, floppy tape, installation, mail, networking version 2, MGR graphics system, X-windows, usenet news, printing, SCSI, serial, sound, and uucp. Service Price Consulting Hotline $2.95/minute 1-900-446-6075 ext. 835 ("TEK") $2.95/minute, USA only 10am-noon,1:45pm-5pm Pacific Fixed Price Hotline* $25 per call Personal Technical Support $100 for 1 year or 1 engineer-hour Business Technical Support [machines+people+contacts] x $60/month Releases On Demand $500 General Technical Services $300/engineer-hour Development Contracts $400/estimated engineer-hour *New experimental service. The Plug-and-Play Linux manual lists vendors offering support services related to the Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X distribution. If you or your business would like to offer a service related to Plug-and-Play Linux, send a description of your business and contact information to adam@yggdrasil.com. DIRECT SALES ORDER FORM SHIP TO: ______________________________ ______________________________ DAYTIME PHONE: _______________ ______________________________ EMAIL: _______________________ ______________________________ Item Quantity Price(US$) Plug-and-Play Linux ____ X $39.95 = $_______ (CDROM, 3.5" boot floppy, 90 page manual) Update Subscriptions starting with following release): 1 year update subscription (4 releases) ____ X $99.95 = $_______ 2 year update subscription (8 releases) ____ X $179.95 = $_______ The Linux Bible (800 pages: kernel hacking, ____ X $39.95 = $_______ networking, installation, over a dozen "How To" guides, and more!) OSF/Motif for Linux ____ X $149.95 = $_______ For Walnut CDROM titles, call. 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