UNIX SIG

By Christopher J. Fearnley

Last month I showed the Winter 1997 Linux Internet Archives (8 CD set)
which Yggdrasil provided complimentary for our group. I had purchased
the Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource (6 CD set - September 1996). So
when I got home I looked over the Yggdrasil set to try to compare and
contrast them. The first CD I looked at was the Debian one. Yggdrasil
included a larger portion of the Debian ftp site than Infomagic. So if
you need a Debian CD, Yggdrasil's is better than Infomagic's. Both
vendors do a good job on the sunsite, tsx-11 and FSF archives. I prefer
how Yggdrasil puts the index for all 8 CDs on each CD (Infomagic only puts
a complete index on the first CD). However, I found a few serious problems
with the Yggdrasil CD set. First, disk 7 is clearly labeled to include the
Internet RFCs, Red Hat 4.0 for i386, Jurix and MCC 1.0+. However, none
of these were on my disk 7. Further investigation showed that the copy
I got had disk 8's contents on disk 7 --- byte for byte. Then looking
through the find-ls files, the Internet RFC's are listed as being on
disk 4. However they seem to have been omitted entirely. Hopefully,
the CD mastering process only screwed up my set. But I haven't heard
back from an email to Yggdrasil regarding this issue.

Next month I'll spend a few minutes outlining how Linux is a robust
choice for providing a diversity of Internet services.  Bring
questions, since most of our time will be Q & A.  I'm still looking
for someone else to write Data Bus articles.  I haven't been moved to
take up "the pen" much lately :(

[NOTE (3 December 1996):  After publishing the above in the December
Data Bus, Yggdrasil contacted me today and promised to send me a
correction.  They said that the "disk 7 problem" only affected
relatively few CD sets -- apparently some of the promotional ones they
sent out.]