New Yggdrasil LGX release: A Linux/GNU/X UNIX(R) clone for PC's

New Yggdrasil LGX release: A Linux/GNU/X UNIX(R) clone for PC's

Post by Yggdrasil Computi » Sun, 10 Oct 1993 06:02:22



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              THE YGGDRASIL LINUX/GNU/X OPERATING SYSTEM
                              FALL 1993

CONTENTS:
        Executive Summary
        Highlights
        What makes LGX easy to use?
        Feature chart
        Version Numbers
        How to get a free copy
        How to get a copy by tomorrow    <--------
        Subscriptions
        Upgrade Path from the Beta Release
        Technical Support
        Reseller list
        Direct sales order form

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY                                           7 October 1993

        SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA--Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated is now
shipping LGX, a multimedia PC UNIX(R) clone competitive with Solaris
and Windows NT.  The 680-megabyte system includes the Postgres
database, the "Andrew" multimedia document system, seventeen optional
software packages, complete source code, and most importantly,
numerous features designed to make LGX easier, and therefore cheaper,
to install and maintain than other operating systems.  These
ease-of-use features include a manual with illustrations of what the
screen should look like at each step of installation, plug-and-play
operation, an easy-to-use installation mechanism, graphical "fill in
the blanks" control panels for easy system configuration, and other
enhancements.

        LGX is named after three of its principal components: the
Linux kernel, the GNU software suite, and the X window system.  LGX is
free software, so no license fees are necessary for LGX development to
be done by in house programmers, consultants, or anybody.  The LGX
manual lists support vendors, and Yggdrasil also offers such services,
including a 900 number for instant help with Linux-related questions.

        Yggdrasil is greatly indebted to the many free software developers
whose efforts have made this release possible.  As a token of appreciation,
any author of anything in LGX can get a free copy.  Other major contributors
to the Linux community and Operators of free Linux BBS's or Linux FTP sites
can also get a free copy.  For everyone else, LGX costs $49.95.

        For more information or to order, call 24 hours a day toll
free (800) 261-6630 or (408) 261-6630, or fax (408) 261-6631, or send
email to y...@netcom.com.  All individual direct sales orders received
before 6PM Eastern/3PM Pacific are shipped by an overnight delivery
service.  Reseller inquiries welcome.

        UNIX is a registered trademark of Unix System Laboratories.
LGX contains no proprietary software licensed from Unix System
Laboratories.

HIGHLIGHTS

        LGX is the first operating system distribution to include
Carnegie-Mellon University's Andrew system for processing documents
with embedded images, hypertext links, spreadsheets and other media.
Other document preparation facilities include TeX, groff, and the
"GhostScript" PostScript clone, all with X windows previewers.  For
editting files, LGX includes vi and two multiwindowing version of the
emacs text editor: FSF Emacs 19.19 and Lucid GNU Emacs 19.8.

        LGX now includes the ImageMagic viewer for JPEG, GIF, and TIFF
images, in addition to the MPEG video player that was in the LGX beta
release.  The X windows configuration script now supports resolutions
up to 1152x900 non-interlaced for sufficiently fast video cards such as
the ATI Ultra Pro.  Sound support has been expanded with the adagio
program.  General multimedia support has been expanded not only with
the inclusion of the Andrew system, but also with the addition of the
metamail system for processing multimedia mail.  The news reader and
the mailer have been configured to automatically invoke metamail when
they display MIME-format messages.

        LGX is also the first operating system to include Postgres,
the new remote database system developed at the University of
California, Berkeley to succeed Ingres.  A programming interface
between Postgres and the popular Tk/Tcl X windows toolkit for rapid
graphical interface development is included.  Tk/Tcl is similar to
NeXTStep, but runs under the industry standard X Window System.  The
version of Tk/Tcl is new and corresponds to the langauge described the
forthcoming book by Tk/Tcl's author, John Ousterhout.  Other X windows
programming toolkits include Xview for making OpenLook(tm)
applications, the InterViews C++ X windows toolkit, and the standard
MIT X windows libraries, including Xlib and Xt.  A version of Motif
that can be installed from the LGX graphical control panels will be
available soon.

        LGX's software development environment now includes software
quality tools such as DejaGnu for automated testing, the GNU Coverage
Tool to verify test coverage, Gnats for bug tracking and its graphical
user interface, TkGnats, and the Revision Control System and the
Concurrent Version System for maintaining source trees.  Of course,
the development environment also includes the GNU ANSI C and C++
compilers, the GNU debugger, GNU make, byacc, flex, and the GNU binary
utilities.

        Other features of LGX include "calc" mode for manipulating
mathematical equations in emacs, ethernet TCP/IP networking, UUCP,
the inn news transport system, and new additions to the games library,
including asteroids, battle zone, chess, mille bornes, othello, pool,
shogi, solitaire, tetris, and Connect Four.

EASE-OF-USE FEATURES

        LGX not only contains lots of software that no other
operating system distribution has, but also has numerous ease-of-use
features that have been engineered into LGX to make unix(r)-like
operating systems accessible to more people, and to reduce
installation and maintenance problems.

        LGX is distributed on a plug-and-play CDROM with a boot
floppy, so it can be started by just turning on a computer with the
CDROM and boot floppy inserted.  LGX will detect what kind of CDROM
you have and will automatically use it.  At each step of installation,
the system prompts the user with a paragraph or more of explanation
and provides sensible default responses when possible.  The LGX manual
provides supplemental information and screen snapshots of each step of
installation, including configuration of X windows.  After
installation, LGX's "fill in the blanks" graphical control panels make
it easy to configure the ethernet or the printer, make a boot floppy,
install optional software packages, or do a number of other system
configuration tasks.

        LGX's ease-of-use features extend beyond software configuration.
For example, if you do not have a sound card, LGX will automatically
use the built-in PC speaker to play sounds.  If you do not specify a
filesystem format when you mount a disk, LGX will automatically
determine and use the correct filesystem format.  If a non-postscript
printer has been configured with the graphical control panel, the
"lpr" command will automatically invoke GhostScript to process any
Postscript file sent to the printer, so the printer would as what
would happen if the printer had PostScript built in.  The default
window manager, fvwm, is configured to enable many of LGX's features
and online documentation facilities to be invoked from the root menu.
The twm window manager is also configured with the same menus, and
fvwm has menu entires to switch to other window managers.  All of
these facilities make the facilities of LGX more accessible to users.

        For more information or to order, call 24 hours a day toll
free (800) 261-6630 or (408) 261-6630, or fax to (408) 261-6631.

FEATURE CHART

        o important version numbers: 0.99.13 kernel, Xfree86 1.3, GCC 2.4.5.

        o New Tk/Tcl supports all of the features described in Professor
          John Ousterhout's upcoming book on Tk and Tcl.

        o More software than any competitor: 235MB binaries + 445MB
          source code.

        o Linux 0.99.13 kernel supports most popular CDROM's

        o an easy-to-use installation script, plus a graphical user
          interface for system configuration,

        o The X Window System: version 11 release 5, Xlib/Xt X windows
          libraries, the Tcl/Tk scripting language, the Xview 3.0
          OpenLook(tm) toolkit, InterViews C++ toolkit,

        o The Andrew System version 5.1, including the ez editor
          for easy creation and reading of documents with embedded
          images, equations, spreadsheets, hypertext links, and
          other media types.

        o Ethernet Networking with TCP/IP, NFS and other Internet protocols.

        o Games: asteroids, battle zone, chess, mille bornes, othello,
          pool, shogi, solitaire, tetris, and connect four.

        o Multimedia: viewers for JPEG, GIF, TIFF and other image formats,
          MPEG video, sound,

        o Text editors: the elvis vi clone, GNU Emacs with calc mode,
          and Lucid GNU Emacs (better graphical user interface).

        o Desktop Publishing: TeX and groff typesetting packages with X
          previewers, and ghostscript, a postscript interpreter for X
          windows, faxes and a variety of printers,

        o Telecommunications: kermit, Z-modem, Taylor UUCP, mail reader,
          threaded USENET News reader, with support for reading MIME
          multimedia messages with embedded images, full motion video
          and sound.

        o the Postgres 4.1 remote database system,

        o Programming Languages: GNU C++, GNU ANSI C, FORTRAN-to-C and
          Pascal-to-C translators, and Prolog,

        o Enhanced development environment: GNU debugger, bison, flex,
          GNU make, the GNU Coverage Tool, Revision Controls System,
          Concurrent Version System, and Gnats,

        o System V-style shared memory and interprocess communication,

        o File Systems: a filesystem with long file names, symbolic
          links, and FIFO's, iso9660+rockridge CDROM filesystem, DOS
          filesystem,

        o Emulators: a BIOS emulator that can run DOS, an experimental
          ELF loader, and a snapshot of a WABI Windows emulator under
          development.

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

System          RAM: 4MB (8MB without swap partition), CPU: 386
                or above, Bus: ISA, EISA, or localbus.

Disk            IDE, RLL, MFM, ESDI, SCSI with supported SCSI controller.
                Configurations range from 2 to 680 megabytes of disk.
                Configurations without non-kernel source tree that can
                run without the CDROM range from 27 to 235 megabytes.
                LGX can share a hard disk with other operating systems
                on separate partitions.

                Standard configurations

                CD DEPENDENT (2 megabytes): Only the kernel, writable
                files, and a program to mount the CDROM are installed.
                Because CDROM drives are slow, the system is sluggish
                at startup, but becomes more responsive over the course
                of several minutes of use as commonly used files become
                cached in RAM.

                RUNTIME: (27 megabytes): The kernel, configuration
                files, file utilities, and a tiny X window system are
                installed on the hard disk.  Other system programs can
                installed individually or run from the CDROM when it is
                mounted.

                COMPLETE: (235 megabytes):
                Everything except the non-kernel sources is installed on
                the hard disk.  Source code for the kernel is also
                installed on the hard disk.

                EVERYTHING (680 megabytes): Everything, including
                sources, is installed on the hard disk.

Tape Drives     SCSI tape with supported SCSI controller.

CD-Rom          o Any SCSI CDROM drive with supported SCSI controller,
                o Sony 531 or 535,
                o Sony CDU-31A, alone or with MediaVision Fusion 16 kit,
                o SoundBlaster-compatible CDROM's: Kotobuki, LaserMate,
                  Matsushita, Panasonic, including the CR-562.
                o Mitsumi/Genstar, alone or with ATI Stereo FX.

SCSI            Adaptec 1540B, 1542B, 1540C, 1542C, and 1740 in enhanced
Controllers     mode; Always IN-2000, Bustek 542B, Future Domain 8xx, or
                16xx, Seagate ST-01/ST02, other controllers based on the
                TMC-950 chip, Ultrastor 14F, 24F and 34F, Western
                Digital 7000fasst.

Video Cards     640x480 monochrome for all VGA cards.  256 colors up to
(for X windows) 1152x900 for non-Diamond cards using the following
                chipsets: S3, 8514, Tseng Labs ET4000 or ET3000,
                Paradise, Western Digital 90c00, 90c10 or 90c30, Genoa,
                ATI VGA Wonder, ATI Mach (e.g., the ATI Ultra Pro), Trident
                8900b, 8900c, 8900cl, 8900cs, 9000, Cirrus Logic 5420,
                5422 or 5426, NCR 77c22 or 77c22e, or Compaq AVGA.

Sound Cards     Adlib, SoundBlaster (regular, Pro and 16 ASP), MediaVision
                (Fusion and ProAudioSpectrum 16), and ATI Stereo FX.
                Installable Gravis Ultrasound and MPU-401 drivers are
                also included.  If you do not have a sound card, LGX can
                play sounds through your PC's speaker.

Ethernet        3Com 3503 and 3c503/16, Artisoft LANtastic AE-2, ATI
                1500, Alta Combo, Cabletron, D-Link DE600 pocket adaptor
                and ethernet II, Hewlett-Packard 27245, 27247, 27250 and
                PCLAN, Novell NE-1000, NE-2000, and NE-2100, Western
                Digital 8003 and 8013, other 8390-based ethernet cards.

VERSION NUMBERS

        The following is a list of version numbers of selected LGX
facilities.

        adagio-0.4o             gnugo-1.1               routed-5.23
        agrep-2.04              gnushogi-1.1            rpc-1.00
        at-1.1                  grep-2.0                rsh-5.24
        autoconf-1.5            groff-1.08              rshd-5.38
        bash-1.12               gwm-1.7o-beta3          ruptime-5.70
        bc-1.02                 gzip-1.2.4              rwho-5.50
        bind-4.83l              host-1.01               rwhod-5.19
        binutils-1.9l.1         ical-1.5.1              rxvt-1.3
        bms-0.06                ifs-5                   sed-2.03
        bootlin-4               ImageMagic-2.3.2        shellutils-1.8
        bootpd-2.10a            inetd-5.30              slingshot-2.0
        bootutils-0.1           inn-1.4                 smail-3.1.28
        byacc-1.9               InterViews-3.1          smalltalk-1.1.1
        capture-1.00            ispell-4.0              sound-1.99.7
        cbzone-1.00             IV-2_6                  sox-7
        cpio-2.3                jpeg-4a                 syslogd-5.27
        cron-2.0                kbd-0.81                system-0.98
        cvs-1.3                 lemacs-19.8             talk-5.50a
        dc-0.2                  less-177                talkd-5.80
        dejagnu-1.0.1           lha-1.00                tar-1.11.2
        devX100-12              libc-4.4.1              tcl-7.0b3
        devX75-12               libg++-2.4              tclX-7.0a-B4
        diffutils-2.4           lilo-11                 tcpd-1.40
        dld-3.2.3               linux-0.99.13           tcsh-6.04
        dll-2.8                 linuxelf-1.2            telnet-5.52
        dosemu-0.49             lpd-5.90                term-1.0.7
        dosfsck-1.0             m4-1.0.3                textutils-1.6
        dragdrop-1.1            mailx-5.3a              tftp-5.10
        dvips-5.518             make-3.68               tftpd-5.13
        e2fsprogs-0.3           malloc-930326           tiff-3.2beta
        elvis-1.7               man-1.1                 time-1.5
        emacs-19.19             metamail-2.6            tk-3.3b3
        expect-0.4              mkdosfs-0.1             tkinfo-0.6
        f2c-1993.04.28          mkisofs-0.9             tput-1.0
        fdisk-1.4               mm-1.07                 trn-3.2
        file-1.25               mpeg-1.2                UIT-2.0
        fileutils-3.6           mslaved-0.06            usermaint-1.0
        find-3.8                ncompress-4.2.4         utila-1.5
        finger-5.22             net-0.21                utilb-1.3
        fingerd-5.60            net-0.22                utile-1.4
        fips-0.8                net-0.24                uucp-1.04
        flex-2.3.8              netconf-0.3             uuencode-1.0
        flexfax-2.1.0           nfsd-1.50               wdiff-0.04
        fromto-1.01             nntpd-15.11a            Wine-0.4.1
        ftape-0.9.6             oleo-1.5                xaster-1.00
        ftp-5.38                p2c-1.20                xbmbrowser-2.0
        ftpd-5.60               patch-2.1               xboard-2.1.pl11
        fvwm-0.96               pbmplus-10dec91         xboard-3.0.pl8
        gas-1.38.1l             pcnfsd-1.40             xdos-0.3
        gawk-2.15.2             perl-4.036              xms-0.06
        gcc-2.3.3               ping-5.90               xpilot-3.0.0
        gcc-2.4.5               poeigl-1.11             xpipeman-1.01
        gct-1.4                 popd-10.01              xpm-3.2f
        gdb-4.10                postbrowse-0.1          xpool-1.3
        gdbm-1.5                postgres-4.1            xrisk-2.14
        ghostscript-2.6.1pl4    procps-0.4              XSBprolog-1.2
        ghostview-1.5           quota-1.0               xshogi-1.1
        gic-1.1                 rcp-5.32                xtank-1.3f
        glib-1.9e               rcs-5.6.0.1             xtetris-2.5.2
        gmp-1.3.2               reve-1.4.0              xvier-1.0
        gnats-3.01              rlogin-5.33             xview-3.0
        gnuchess-4.0p62         rlogind-5.53

HOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION

        The anonymous FTP area netcom.com:pub/yggdrasil contains more
information, including an "ls -RC" listing of the CD's contents,
reseller information, and copies of the manual in texinfo, DVI and
postscript.  If you want to view the DVI version of the manual with
xdvi, you can go to the table of contents with the command "84g".

        You can also request information by phone by calling 24 hours
a day toll free (800) 261-6630 or (408) 261-6630.  You can also fax
to (408) 261-6631, or send email to y...@netcom.com.  A fax server with
information on LGX will be available shortly from (408) 946-5080.
Request document 5491 ("LGX-1").

HOW TO GET A FREE COPY

        Yggdrasil is greatly indebted to the many free software
developers whose efforts have made this release possible.  As a token
of our appreciation, any author of any software or documentation in
LGX can get a free copy, which includes the CD, manual, and boot
floppies.  Operators of free Linux BBS's or Linux FTP sites and other
major contributors to the Linux community can also get a free copy.
We request that Linux BBS operators and FTP sites carry the LGX
announcement in the appropriate forums, however this request is
optional.

HOW TO GET A COPY BY TOMORROW

        LGX costs $49.95.  If you live in the United States, the
shipping and handling charge is $5.  All individual direct sales orders
from within the United States received before 6PM Eastern/3PM Pacific
are shipped by an overnight delivery service for delivery the next day.
To place an order, call (800) 261-6630.

        For international orders, next day service is not available
from Yggdrasil, although some resellers may offer it.  Shipping for
international orders is $10.  To place an international order, call
(408) 261-6630, or fax the order form to (408) 261-6631.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

        LGX is released quarterly.  Update subscriptions are
available and start with the release following the release that is
current when your subscription order is received.  For example, an
update subscription ordered today would begin with the Winter 1994
release.  Prices for update subscriptions are as follows:

        1 year (4 releases)             $ 99.95
        2 years (8 releases)            $179.95
        3 years (12 releases)           $249.95

UPGRADE PATH FROM THE BETA RELEASE

        If you mail the LGX beta CDROM, the LGX beta manual, both LGX
beta boot floppies to Yggdrasil before November 1, 1993, you will
receive a $10 discount on your order of the LGX Fall 1993.  You must
include your order and a check in the same package with your LGX beta
release.  If you buy the Fall 1993 release from a reseller or if you
bought the beta + 1st production release subscription, you can place
an order for an update subscription in this way instead.  Again, this
offer expires on November 1st.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

        You can report bugs for free and we will try to make updated
lists of bugs and fixes publicly available in a timely manner.  In
addition, LGX has a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee, so you
are never at risk of being stuck with a system that you cannot use.

        In the past, we have had a substantial amount of requests for
technical support of a tutorial nature.  For example, callers often
want somebody to talk them through the installation process or have a
question which they could find the answer to by reading through
online documentation, but for which they could find the answer faster
by calling technical support.  Clearly, if an operating system as
powerful as LGX is going to take over the world, such a service must
be available.  On the other hand, in order for this service to scale,
it has to pay for itself.

        Therefore, we have established a 900 number in the United
States for general Linux technical support.  You do not need to be
using LGX or to be an Yggdrasil customer to use this service.  You can
call us with your questions not only about LGX, but also about
anything else related to Linux.  We cannot guarantee to know the
answer to all questions, but if we cannot answer your question, we
will try to point you in the right direction.  We will try to keep
your call as short as possible, but please be realistic in your
expectations of how long it takes to look up anything or to find the
right person in the office to answer question.  It will probably cost
you about $20 for a typical straightforward question.

                1-900-446-6075 ext. 835 ("TEK")
                $2.95/minute, USA only
                10am-noon,1:45pm-5pm Pacific

        The LGX manual lists vendors offering support services related
to the Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X distribution.  If you or your business
would like to offer a service related to LGX, send a description of
your business and contact information to yggdra...@netcom.com.  There
may also be an advertising section in the production release manuals
if there is interest.  It would be nice to have a longer list of
support vendors to disseminate in the publicity for the production
release.  If you have ideas for cooperation that you'd like explore,
please get in touch.

RESELLER LIST

                YGGDRASIL LINUX/GNU/X OPERATING SYSTEM
                            RESELLER LIST

                                AFRICA

        SOUTH AFRICA

        Spartech Pty. Ltd.
        10th Floor, Standard Bank House
        20 Albert Street
        Marshalltown, Johannesburg
        South Africa
        +27 11 838 3831
        fax 27 11 833 1470

                                ASIA

        TIAWAN                          JAPAN

        Promox Systems                  CD-ROM shop LASER5
        215-5 Ta-Chiao 3 Street         2-62-8-203 Higashi-Ikebukuro
        Yung-Kang City                  Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170
        TAIWAN R.O.C.                   JAPAN
        phone (06) 232-7729             phone +81 3-5952-7486
        fax (06) 231-2909               fax +81 45-721-1885

                                        Pacific HiTech
                                        1-18-16 Nomura Building, 10f
                                        Nishishingjuku, Shigjuku
                                        Tokyo 160
                                        JAPAN
                                        phone +81 3 3345 9215
                                        fax +81 3 3345 9216

                                        Plat Home Co. Ltd.
                                        1-11-4 Soto-kanda, Chiyoda-ku
                                        Tokyo 101
                                        JAPAN
                                        +81 3 3251 7611
                                        fax +81 3 3255 9506

                                        Village Center, Inc.            
                                        2-2-12 Fujimi-Cho
                                        Choufu City, Tokyo 182
                                        JAPAN
                                        phone +81 424 88 8428
                                        fax +81 424 88 5471

                              AUSTRALIA

        CONTINENT                       NEW ZEALAND

        Systemania                      Shareware Distribution NZ
        5 Tumut Place                   Freepost 3637 (no stamp required)
        Sylvania Waters                 PO Box 42-000
        NSW 224                         Wainuiomata, Wellington
        Australia                       New Zealand
        612 544-7491                    toll free phone/fax 0508 55 66 55
        fax 612 544-7775                Wellington area: 04 564 5307

                                EUROPE

        UNITED KINGDOM                  CONTINENT

        Lasermoon Ltd.                  Wasaware Oy
        2a Beaconsfield Road            Palosaarentie 31
        Fareham, Hampshire PO16 0QB     SF-65200 VAASA
        UNITED KINGDOM                  FINLAND
        phone +44 329 826444            phone +358 61 173365      
        fax +44 329 825936              h...@uwasa.fi
        i...@lasermoon.co.uk (human)
        info-ser...@lasermoon.co.uk (automaton)

        Novatec Systems                 Kursun CDROM Versand
        53 Exiter Road, Selly Oak       Karl Marx Ring 148
        Birmingham, B29 6EX             81737 Munich
        UNITED KINGDOM                  GERMANY
        phone +44 021 456 5759          phone +49 89 637 8421
        fax +44 021 455 7472            fax +49 89 637 8429

        Takelap Systems Ltd.            Software News!
        The Reddings                    Sissacherstr. 57
        Court Robin Lane                4052 Basel
        Llangwm, USK, Gwent, NP5 1ET    SWITZERLAND
        UNITED KINGDOM                  +41 (61) 313 42 02
        phone +44 1 2915 357            fax +41 (61) 313 42 02
                                        100042.1...@CompuServe.Com

        Frontier Technologies           Starcom CDROM Versand
        23B Poppleton Road              Limburggasse 45
        Leytonstone, London, E11 1LP    A-9073 Klagenfurt
        United Kingdom                  AUSTRIA
        phone +44 81 989 2450           phone +43 463 23 84 98
                                        fax   +43 463 29 67 24

        Ireland On-Line Ltd.            S.u.S.E.: Gesellschaft fur
        West Wing,                      Software und Systementwicklung mbH
        Udaras na Gaeltachta            Erlanger Str. 58
        Furbo, Co. Galway               90765 Furth
        IRELAND                         GERMANY
        phone +353 (0) 91 92727         phone +49 911 794 0118
        fax +353 (0) 91 92726           fax +49 911 790 6486
        bbs +353 (0) 91 92722
        sa...@iol.ie
                                        Cistron Electronics
                                        Hoorn 186-190  2404 HK
                                        Postbus 297  2400 AG
                                        Alphyen aan den den Rijn
                                        phone 01720-40005
                                        fax 01720-30979
                                        K.v.K. Leiden nr. 48769
                                        postbank nr. 353965

                                        RMI Nachrichtentechnik GmbH
                                        Rosstrasse 38-40
                                        D-52064 Aachen
                                        Germany
                                        rm...@rmi.de
                                        phone 0241-47997-0
                                        fax 0241-47997-77

                             MIDDLE EAST

        ACTCOM
        Active Communication Ltd.
        14 Pinsker Street
        Haifa 32715
        ISRAEL
        phone: +972 4 326857
        fax: +972 4 231211
        off...@actcom.com

                            NORTH AMERICA

                                CANADA

        University of Toronto Bookstore Zeus Technologies
        214 College Street              17 Overlord Street
        Toronto, Ontario M5T 3A1        Whitby, Ontario L1N 8S4
        CANADA                          CANADA
                                        (416) 666-8309

                            UNITED STATES

        WEST                            EAST

        Bridgewell Associates           Austin Code Works
        5301 Bethoven Street            11100 Leafwood Lane
        Suite 134                       Austin, Texas 78750-3587
        Los Angeles, CA 90066           (512) 258-0785
        (301) 577-6696                  fax (512) 258-1342
        fax (310) 822-6149

        Forest Neocom Corporation       Mark Horton Associates
        10879 San Pablo Avenue          PO Box 747
        El Cerrito, CA 94530            Decatur, GA 30031-0747
        (510) 234-4362                  (404) 371-0291
        fax (510) 234-4

        Just Computers                  InfoMagic, Inc.
        PO Box 751414                   Post Office Box 338
        Petaluma, CA 94975              Pennington NJ 08534
        (707) 769-1648                  (609) 683-5501
        fax (707) 765-2447              fax (609) 683-1342

        Las Vegas Publishing            Linux System Laboratories
        3909 South Maryland Parkway     18300 Tara Drive
        Suite 402                       Clinton Township, MI 48036
        Las Vegas, NV 89109             (313) 954-2829
        (702) 795-4838
        fax (702) 892-0279

        Pacific HiTech                  Spheric Microsystems
        4530 Fortuna Way                162 Highway 34, Suite C2-110
        Salt Lake City, UT 84124        Madawan, NJ 07747
        (801) 278-2042                  (908) 787-4065
        fax (801) 278-2666              email: bal...@spheric.com

        Promox Systems                  
        1050 East Duane Ave., Suite B  
        Sunnyvale, CA 94086            
        (408) 733-2966                  
        fax (408) 733-2968              

        Quality Computers
        2435 Channing Way              
        Berkeley, CA 94704              
        (510) 548-2245                  
        fax (510) 548-0442              

        Walnut Creek CDROM              
        1547 Palos Verdes Mall #260    
        Walnut Creek, CA 94596          
        (510) 674-0783                  
        fax (510) 674-0821              

        Light Shine USA Inc.
        18013 Sky Park Circle
        Suite C
        Irvine, CA 92714
        (714) 553-8401
        fax (714) 553-8453

DIRECT SALES ORDER FORM:
SHIP TO: ______________________________     YGGDRASIL DIRECT SALES
                                            ORDER FORM
         ______________________________    
                                            DAYTIME PHONE: _______________
         ______________________________    
                                            EMAIL: _______________________
         ______________________________    
        Item                               Quantity    Price(US$)

LGX (CDROM, 3.5" & 5.25" floppies, manual)   ____   X   $49.95 =  $_______
(US orders for LGX received before 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific are
shipped by Next Day Air door-to-door delivery services.)

Update Subscriptions (CD's only, starting with following release):

1 year update subscription (4 releases)      ____   X   $99.95 =  $_______
2 year update subscription (8 releases)      ____   X  $179.95 =  $_______
3 year update subscription (12 releases)     ____   X  $249.95 =  $_______

Promox Motif for LGX (call before ordering)  ____   X  $149.95 =  $_______

Prime Time Freeware for unix                 ____   X   $59.95 =  $_______

Walnut Creek CDROM's _____________________   ____   X  ______  =  $_______
                        (description)                  (call)
                                                      SUBTOTAL    $_______

    California residents add your county's sales tax (______%)    $_______

                   Shipping & handling (US: $5, elsewhere: $10)   $_______

                                                         TOTAL    $_______

Payment method: __ payment enclosed      __ COD (USA only)
                __ credit card (America Express or Optima.  Call before
                   using VISA, Mastercard or other credit card.)

Your name as it appears on credit card: _______________________________

Brand of credit card: ________  Card number:  _________________________

Signature:______________________________________  Expiration: ___ / ___
        SHIPPING ADDRESS MUST MATCH CREDIT CARD BILLING ADDRESS

Offers subject to change without notice.  If you have a problem with
this software, you can return it within 30 days for a full refund.
Beyond that, THERE IS NO OTHER WARRANTY FOR ANY OF THIS SOFTWARE.  THIS
SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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