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By Mark Guertin

LinuxPPC Announces Public Beta

In a press release dated November 15, 2000, Jason Haas of LinuxPPC announced the release of a public beta of the newest LinuxPPC distribution. Important information in the notes area states: "Before to installing, the user should read the pre and post-installation notes. After installing, the user will need to configure the system. Keyboard emulation of the middle and right mouse buttons is now radically different than in previous distributions, and users must boot from a new kernel that ships with the beta. Also, some files must be deleted to implement all of the software. Full documentation on this will be available in the near future."

More information you will need for this installation can be found here. Some of these modifications are a requirement for the new powerpc input architecture in the kernel. Franz Sirl has an excellent summary of the changes at PPC changes for the new input layer.

Also to be noted is that this beta must be installed over an already running RPM based Linux distribution. From the press release: "As long as your system uses RPM," developer Jeff Carr explained, "you can upgrade to the public beta.". The upgrade application can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.linuxppc.com/linuxppc-halloween/install/updates/upgrade, and there are ftp mirrors of the beta on multiple continents, and should be available soon as an ISO image. "After downloading the updater utility, the user will need to use the chmod command to make the installer an executable program.".



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