You can get all the stuff from :
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux11/download/1.2-alpha-jan26/
please remember that this is ALPHA quality and may not work on your
machine. sgi takes no responsibility...blah blah blah
later,
tduffy
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Daniele Medri wrote:
> Hi,
> i just read this from archive and i'm interessed.
> I've contact with Mauro Gargaglione and Cristiano Beretta from Sgi Italy.
>
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>
> All,
>
> As many of you may already know, we are in the final engineering days of
> SGI Linux 1.2 (now officially named SGI ProPack 1.2 for Linux). This
> release differs from previous releases in that it will not include a
> base distribution. We have engineered an overlay product that runs on
> top of RedHat Linux 6.1 or SuSe Linux 6.3. We will have all of the
> features of SGI Linux 1.1 plus some exciting new ones: we will be
> updating to kernel 2.2.14; we will have DEVFS 99.10; kdb 0.6; major NFS
> v3 fixes; crash dump updates; pretty new artwork :); and a slew of bug
> fixes and other interesting tidbits that I am not remembering right now.
>
> The reason I am spamming this group is to ask if any one would be
> interested in testing Alpha or Beta versions of this product. If you
> already have SGI Linux 1.1, you will need to upgrade to RedHat 6.1
> before running our overlay product. Please email me directly if you are
> interested and I will send you the information. The pieces that need
> the most testing are NFS v3, Async I/O, SCSI drivers, and the overlay
> installer itself.
>
> Please understand that this will not be officially supported and that if
> you choose to participate, you do so at your own risk. All of the
> changes will be open sourced and uploaded to oss.sgi.com. In fact, most
> of the individual patches are already on oss.sgi.com.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Tom Duffy
> Core Linux, SGI
>
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>
> Daniele Medri
> Presidente ErLug (Emilia Romagna Linux User Group)
> web: http://erlug.linux.it - news: mail.erlug.linux.it
> email: madrid@xxxxxxxx - madrid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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