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12. Stop Press

12.1 Issue-1 First Release!

------- It's here! -------

Stop-Press will probably be moved to the top menu, so that you don't have to keep reading Issue-1.

12.2 ADDED: /etc/lilo.conf and /hda4

This section was mysteriously missing before. Now it needs a bit of editing.

If you have had a 1024 cylinder boot problem, read here.

12.3 ADDED: dual boot

I guess a lot of people will be upgrading their existing boxes. Before you do so, think about losing system services -or- add an extra disk and build a pair of Linux's within one box, OLD + NEW.

12.4 PREVIEW: Issue-3 is about Networking

Issue-2 and Issue-3 are available for preview (though still under construction). Look on http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/ trix.

Issue-3 gives you a worked example of TCP/IP configuration for LAN and Internet (using SLIP).

The text needs a bit of tidying, but the configuration used works just fine.

12.5 PREVIEW: Issue-2 is now previewing

It's got a few nifty articles on this and that. Nothing too serious! And nothing that doesn't work. (Hopefully).

In places it in a cut+paste nightmare (at least I remembered not to swear)

12.6 MISSING: nedit

NEdit is an X11 text editor. It doesn't have bold, or underline, but it reformats paragraphs (DON'T try that with PICO the PINE editor, PICO corrupts your text is the paragraph is more than 256 characters!). It looks quite nice, and it is a lot easier than VI (which you still need to get X11 configured!).

nc is a companion to nedit, that makes nedit open a new window on another file, without requiring a new nedit process to control it. IE it saves valuable memory.

Simply download it from sunsite, and install it manually to /usr/local/bin.

12.7 MISSING: 'ez' AUIS /usr/andrew

This is an X11 word processor, and support programs. It works well, and only takes a while to get used to. I keep meaning to write an intro guide for new users who only want a few pages full of hints. Real soon now - honest!

Simply untar it from /cdrom/slackwar/contrib/AUIS*, or sunsite, and play with the mouse. There are a few tricks to make styles appear on the menu's, but once they are there they begin to make sense.

You only need the -wp files, unless you really want email and source code highlighting.

12.8 Unprinted

So far I have avoided printing Raven. Unless you have done it, it has never been done! I have a .dvi file that looks quite good on screen.

12.9 Getting Netscape, Mosaic or ...

Netscape and Mosaic get removed from sunsite when the CDROM's are published. But are openly available on the 'Net by anonymous FTP. Ask your supplier or a friend to download one of them for you. In the mean time look on the CD's for Arena or Lynx, or use a DOS browser.

12.10 SGML Formatting problems

SGML-linux doc requires that 'special' characters be quoted using special SGML names. If you are having problems with ampersand, less-than, ... in the text, or missing from the text! Sorry.

12.11 RedHat Soon

Actually, Raven has no 'preference' about which distribution to use. I hope to be doing RedHat soon, and Debian (others). But there should be more on interesting things - other than getting started! After the initial wave of support updates, I hope to get down to some real work!

My preference is for instant-install packages, as close to the sunsite originals as possible. Of course 'instant' would mean runnable from the CDROM's (which userfs might be able to do, it can read .tgz files, but I'm not so sure about .cpio files). Debian, and Linux-FT are also on the TODO list, as are other things like actually using Linux, rather than installing it!

12.12 Support available

My TODO list reaches past dawn, but if you'd like to re-prioritise it, I'm open to all sorts of bribes! Plus working with a interesting - but standard - network topologies would be nice. eg build an multi-site office network, with dial-in, from one set of CD's plus a config disk would be interesting. My preference is for drop-in and change the passwords/parameters (which makes your disaster recovery plans easier).

The usual rates apply.


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