strtty 0.9.2.4 Released - STREAMS Terminals for Linux Fast-STREAMS

[Brian F. G. Bidulock]

Package strtty-0.9.2.4 was released under AGPLv3 2008-10-31.

The OpenSS7 STREAMS Terminals package provides STREAMS modules and
drivers, libraries, programs, init scripts, and daemons that implement
the classical SVR 4 Terminal Subsystem.

The OpenSS7 STREAMS Terminals package includes kernel modules, SVR 4.2
STREAMS drivers, modules, libraries, utilities, test programs, daemons,
and development environment for the development and execution of OpenSS7
STREAMS Terminals components and applications for the SVR 4.2 STREAMS
environment. It provides true STREAMS-based Pseudo-Terminals for Linux.

This is another separate release from The OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7
STREAMS Terminals package. This package provides pts and ptm
pseudo-terminal drivers, as well as an ldterm module. Additional modules
are the ptem, ttcompat and pckt modules. The package contains all the
necessary manual pages and other documentation for terminal and
pseudo-terminal components in a separate autoconf tarball.

This release is a maintenance release providing support for recent
distributions and tool chains.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

- Minor documentation corrections.
- Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back
to GPL.
- License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These
changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
primarily for embedded targets.
- Improvements to common build process for embedded and
cross-compile targets.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and
2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
- Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
- Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major
subpackages.
- Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1)
documents.
- Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and
apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has
been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
- Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.

This is a public alpha release of the package. This package is currently
incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community.
If you are interested in completion of this package, contact
<mailto:***@openss7.com>.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6
RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels
without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the GNU Affero General Public
License (AGPL) Version 3. The release is available as an autoconf
tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads
page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the strtty package
page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strtty-0.9.2.4/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strtty-0.9.2.4/NEWS> in the release,
or <http://www.openss7.org/strtty_manual.html#Release-Notes> in the
manual, for more information. Also, see the strtty.pdf manual in the
release (also in html <http://www.openss7.org/strtty_manual.html>).

For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_G.html>.

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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