[Announce] TUX alpha source code release

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 04:55:49 EDT

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    We are pleased to announce that the TUX kernel-space HTTP-subsystem is
    available for download at:

            ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/tux/tux-hawaii/

    WARNING: this is a developer-only, alpha release. The 1.0 'consumer'
    release will happen by the end of September. This release is useless to
    you unless you are a kernel developer, and even in that case it might eat
    your data, start World War III, or drink your coffee. As of now, it is
    possible to cause TUX to BUG() via a simple browser URL - sanity checks
    are not handled too nicely yet. You have been warned. Further TUX
    development will be coordinated through the tux-list@redhat.com mailing
    list. (See the attached README file for how to subscribe.)

    Many thanks to Michael K. Johnson and Matt Wilson for making the August
    release possible :-)

            Ingo

    the README file:
    -----------------------
    TUX: The Hawaii Release

    This is a developer-only preview of TUX. It is incomplete; some features
    are stubbed out or incompletely implemented, and packaging is incomplete.
    It is provided in source-code-only form at this time. It is not yet
    intended for enterprise use. It has not undergone a security audit.
    It is not guaranteed to run SPECweb99 correctly, because there has been
    further development since the accepted SPECweb99 runs were done, and
    that development may well have diverged from SPECweb99 and web standards
    compliance, and has probably changed performance. It is here so that
    developers besides those at Red Hat can participate in the process of
    finalizing the TUX APIs, configuration options, and documentation.

      *** If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
      *** You have been warned!

    The development work will happen on the mailing list tux-list@redhat.com
    You can join the list by sending a mail with a subject of "Subscribe"
    to tux-list-request@redhat.com

    The packages are included only in source form. The tux package contains
    some basic documentation in Docbook format; if you build the tux
    package it will build html documentation from the Docbook. The kernel
    package, when built, builds the tux package, currently only for the i686
    enterprise kernel binary package. Because TUX's memory model clashes
    with what is needed for the enterprise kernel, that will change; it's
    just a placeholder for now. The packages have been tested more on the
    Pinstripe beta than on Red Hat Linux 6.2 at this time. They will receive
    more testing on Red Hat Linux 6.2 in the future.

    We plan to make a full release by the end of September. That release
    will be validated against SPECweb99, will have updated APIs, better
    configuration, richer documentation, and will be made more readily
    available, with a defect tracking program to support it.

    For more information, join the mailing list.

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