Release notes for 2.0
Hi!
I mailed with Christian Schwarz some time ago about doing
the rel notes. (Betcha you thought about another disappearing
person, Christian.) Well, here are my first attempts to
that direction. I will tag contents at the end of this mail
and, if you are interested mail some of the introductory
stuff separately. It is getting rather large, even tho'
it does not yet really tell enything.
Please comment. After two or three days I will announce this
on debian-devel.
Christian, or somebody, is there somewhere a corner of
web space I could use for this? My employer, the advanced
high-tech Nokia Telecom does not offer world visible
web space for its employers (that I know of).
t.aa
Release notes for Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
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Arto Astala <arto.astala@iki.fi>
version 2.0-0.0.1, 3 March 1998
0.1 Abstract
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These notes describe the release 2.0 of the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution.
0.2 Contents
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1. About this manual
1.1. Scope (Purpose of the document)
1.2. Organization of this document
1.3. Where to get latest version
2. About Debian GNU/Linux distribution
2.1. Debian GNU/Linux distribution
2.2. Documentation and support
2.3. disk space
2.4. Contributing
3. What is in this release
3.1. What is new
3.1.1. Libc
3.2. Binary formats
4. Debian specifics
4.1. make kernels
4.2. hw
4.3. libc5 & libc6
4.4. security
4.5. Programs for the X Windows system
4.6. configuration
5. what is not in this release
5.1. discontinued
5.1.1. a.out executables & development
5.1.2. X11R5 executables and development
5.2. in future [deity, PAM, FHS]
6. New installation
7. How To Upgrade
7.1. From where and how
7.2. (the easy way -- autoup.sh)
7.2.1. wedge in an upgraded libc5 dpkg?
7.2.2. get-selections
7.3. from 1.3 (bo)
7.4. from 1.2 (rex)
7.5. from 1.1 (buzz)
7.6. from 0.93
8. development
8.1. General comments
8.2. No C-development
8.3. Only libc6 based C-development
8.4. Both libc6 and libc5 based C-development [altdev+altgcc+PATH]
8.5. Only libc5 based C-development [either dev or altdev]
8.6. Which compiler? [libg++/gcc/egcs]
9. Special problems & concerns [location of [X]games]
9.1. timezone/timezones
9.2. (old dev packages)
9.3. bash upgrade
9.4. perl to perl-base
9.5. dpkg upgrade
9.6. The directory structure of the ftp site has been slightly
modified
9.7. (sub)architectures and directory str.
9.8. the format of the utmp/wtmp
9.9. ppp-authentication & configuration
10. things to watch for
10.1. kernel version specific things
kernel 2.1..86 and the chown/lchown problem?
kernel 2.0.x & libc aaa or kernel 2.1.y & libc bbb ??? dev also ???
10.1.1. ftape & other modules
10.1.2. smbfs, smbfsx, ncpfs and ncpfsx (2.0 vs. 2.1 series)
10.2. debian specialities
10.2.1. libc-dev & symlinks issue
10.2.2. make kernels & possibility of multiple kernels of same
version
10.3. changes in directory structure
10.3.1. dists/stable/{main,cobtrib,non-free,non-us}
10.3.2. boot disks [several architectures]
10.4. changes in package names [also 'compress']
10.4.1. timezones
10.4.2. perl
10.4.3. emacs
custom
[X]Emacs => [X]Emacs19, [X]Emacs20
structure of installation & addons
10.4.4. libraries (g, major version)
10.4.5. dev-packages
10.5. things that may break
10.5.1. dependencies [xpm4g netpbm]
10.5.2. essential related [timezone in rex?]
10.5.3. x-related
windowmanagers etc emacs ncursesd -rpath
Annoying behavior in X (broken curses?)
10.5.4. libreadline-related [bash]
10.5.5. libgdbm1-related [perl & dpkg]
10.5.6. upgrading boot critical things [kernel, boot loader]
10.5.7. libc related [utmp/wtmp]
10.5.8. configuration related [ppp nis]
10.5.9. old dev related packages
10.5.10. library major versions [conflict with Red Hat]
0.3. Copyright Notice
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