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Current version (2.51)
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Pocket Linux version 2.51 (1998.10.23) has the following features:
Kernel
version 2.0.35, with some
(unimportant) patches (2.0.39 on 2.51-fix-3)
support for the following
network adapters:
3c503
3c509
3c590/900
SMC Ultra
NE2000
EtherExpress 16
EtherExpress/Pro 100B
HP 10/100VG PCLAN
AMD Lance
Realtek 8139 (2.51-fix-3
only!)
Tulip (2.51-fix-3
only!)
arcnet cards (full support)
modem support
disk devices/filesysems
floppy support
IDE hard disk support
minix fs support
vfat fs support (including
vfat32)
ext2 fs support
affs fs support
nfs support
automatic disk partition and NFS
mounting [ New! ]
normal serial port support
PS/2 mouse support [ New!
]
other devices (parallel ports,
other mice, sound, SCSI, etc.) are not supported
Programs
cash (simple sh compatible shell
with comand line editing, filename and commands completion and history)
ssh (along with ssh-keygen in
case you need it)
bootp client (network is
automagically configured using bootp)
powerful network configuration
utility
some basic utilities (mostly
busybox distribution)
ftp and telnet clients (in case
you cannot use ssh)
mtr (can also be called as ping
and traceroute; so you could check why you cannot access the host)
key (so you can generate
one-time S/Key passwords)
vi - so you can edit some files
(which might possibly be useful)
gpm - so you can copy'n'paste
(or possibly use mouse with remote mc or tin or whatever)
cfdisk - now you can use Pocket
Linux as a rescue disk too!
lots of basic unix commands
help will display short help
Network
lots of network cards (see
above)
automagical configuration using
bootp
utility for manual configuration
when bootp fails
ability to automount /usr
filesystem via NFS [ New! ]
Consoles
ten consoles with root shell
(1st till 10th) - hope it's enough
three others (11th till 13th)
show diagnostic messages
font with Polish diacritical
characters is loaded by default
Polish keyboard layout is loaded
by default
mouse support
Memory requirements
pretty huge now (we need 2.5
megs for ramdisk, some memory to run - this sums up to around 6-7 megs
minimum)
available swap partitions are
automatically enabled [ New! ]
swap file is automatically
created if memory is low [ New! ]
Paweł Więcek
<coven@vmh.net>
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