Welcome to the Linux FTP archive!
To get started, cd to the docs directory, and get and read the files
INFO-SHEET and META-FAQ. The Linux Documentation Project books are
in docs/LDP
The GCC distribution is in packages/GCC/
In general, if you are looking for a file and can't find it in what you
think is an obvious place, get the file find-ls and search through it,
probably with the grep utility. You may alternately get the file ls-lR,
or, to easily find a file that was recently uploaded, get the file ls-ltR.
If you have something to upload, please cd to /incoming, and read the
message you get and get the file README in that directory.
*** THIS IS IMPORTANT *** Note that you will not be able to do a
directory listing in that directory, but you will still be able to get
the file. Just trust me and type "get README" at the prompt...
Name Last modified Size Description
![[DIR]](/icons/back.gif)
Parent Directory 23-Jul-2008 11:16 -
![[DIR]](/icons/folder.gif)
680x0/ 10-Feb-2005 02:29 -
ALPHA/ 10-Feb-2005 02:29 -
BETA/ 02-Jan-1999 10:17 -
![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif)
README 08-Feb-1995 16:17 3k
attic/ 10-Feb-2005 02:29 -
binaries/ 18-Nov-1996 20:20 -
distributions/ 10-Feb-2005 02:29 -
docs/ 14-Apr-2001 21:06 -
dos_utils/ 14-Apr-2001 21:11 -
![[CMP]](/icons/compressed.gif)
find-ls.Z 29-Apr-2001 04:00 168k
info/ 14-Apr-2001 21:11 -
kernels/ 25-Jan-1999 14:35 -
mail-archive/ 14-Apr-2001 20:03 -
packages/ 14-Apr-2001 21:11 -
patches/ 14-Apr-2001 21:11 -
ports/ 14-Apr-2001 21:04 -
postscript/ 14-Apr-2001 21:11 -
sources/ 25-Jan-1999 14:35 -
sum 28-Apr-2001 04:08 270k
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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.
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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"