GNU - February 1996

This CDROM contains over 83 software packages for your UNIX and MSDOS computer from the GNU software archives at prep.ai.mit.edu.  You get precompiled binaries for SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.4, selected packages for MSDOS and MS-Windows, and hundreds of megabytes of source code.

You can use most of the software ready-to-run from the disc and save disk space and compiling time.  GNU utilities pride themselves on portability and you'll meet them wherever you go.  Once you know these tools, you'll be comfortable in any UNIX environment.  

Emacs is the industry standard text editor.  You get two versions, 18.59 and 19.30, both of which will increase your programming speed with its awareness of programming languages.  As a C developer, youÕll use the GCC C and C++ compiler (2.7.1), the C++ library (2.7.1), the debugger gdb (4.15.1), and many other tools.  

Perl is becoming the worldÕs most popular scripting language and you get two versions, stable 4.036 and up-to-the-minute 5.001m. For fun, try GNU chess (4.0.pl75), GNU go (1.2), and GNU shogi.  

MS-Windows users can use Lucid GNU Emacs 1.35, GNU Plot for Windows 3.5, tar, gnuzip, more...

MSDOS users get the DJGPP suite, featuring a great 32 Bit C & C++ compiler (v. 2.6.3).  You also get libraries for graphics, async, BCC to GRX conversion, and task switching.  Complete sources to libraries and compilers.  f2c Fortran to C converter, GDB debugger (v. 4.12), make (v. 3.71), and sed (v. 1.18).

Everything comes with source and documentation.  You get patches for larger packages that you can apply to an existing setup to bring it up to the current release.  You won't lose any customizations you have made!  

With this disc, you can bring any bare-bones system up to a professional working environment.