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A port is running on the developper SGI O2 using the unstable branch.

Homesite is still off-line, if all goes well it will be back this later this week. Local phony is sloooooow at getting my DSL line.

Go to the homepage for more information.

Yep, enjoy! Also PPC and Alpha 0.2.0-beta4 was released, download links can be found on the homepage for now.

Enjoy the faster download.

After some delay, I can now finaly release the 0.2.0 beta 3 for i386 ! There have been major updates to
many packages and the collection has grown to include over 360 packages. Major updates include:
- Linux kernel 2.4.20
- XFree86 4.2.1
- perl, binutils, glibc, devfsd...

You can find download links to the ISO file under the download box on the left.
Floppy boot has not been tested at this time, but boot and root floppy images can be found in /pub/0.2.0-beta3/i386/image/ directory on the download site(s). They should work and you can make a network installation (ftp or http) using them. ... read more

A tftp bootable lifimage for PARISC systems have been released. You should be able to install a "current" version of TA-Linux on your PARISC box using this image.

Work on documentation has started and can now be viewed at: http://talinux.tal.org/documentation/howto/

A tftp sparc boot image is now available for testing. It has been tested on my SparcServer 10 and worked fine. Things that you need to know if you are going to test:
- Use normal install mode, expert is not ready
- It will probably only work on non-sun4u machines (Ultra kernel package is not ready)
- URL for http install: http://hotel.tal.org/pub/current/sparc/
- Use ext2 for filesystem for now
- After the installation, edit /instroot/etc/silo.conf and run silo -f -r /instroot ... read more

Boot and root floppy images for testing 0.2.0-test (current) is now available for download.

TA-Linux 0.2.0 will support the following:
- i386/x86
- DEC/Compaq Alpha
- Sparc32
- Sparc64 with Sparc32 userland
- PPC
- And at a later date parisc/hppa

The ports will be tested on the following hardware:
- SMP Celeron, SMP Pentium-2, Mobile Celeron laptop, 486 laptop
- Sparcstation 1+, Sparcserver 10, Ultra AX
- Alpha LX164 and BE64
- Old-world PPC Mac (7600, 7300) and Nubus-PPC Mac (7100)... read more

A beta of TA-Linux 0.2.0 for i386 will be released soon.

Major new features: glibc 2.2.X , gcc 2.95.3, XFree86 4.1.0 and ext3 support.

There is a major rewrite going on for the next release. 0.1.X was based on a "everything in CVS" model, and it started to get too big for one person to handle and also a bit messy so a rewrite was in order.
The new version uses CVS for the buildsystem and uses the same build process as the TA-Linux collection system. More information will be available on the TA-Linux homepage.

Support for the sparc, ppc and parisc archutectures will be added in the next major TA-Linux release.

0.1.2 was relased before summer and is available on the TA-Linux homepage.

Finaly, after some troubles, a version for Compaq Alpha has been relased ! You can find more information at http://www.tal.org/linux/talinux/

And has been available for about 20 days ! Goto the project homepage for more information.

I've added TA-Linux to sourceforge, hopefully someone will notice it.