19. What's new

This tag is automatic so it IS the reference. (Sometimes I forget to update the version number and the date)

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v1.27, 11 August 2000

• The SLIP line was not needed, SLIP is serial line oriented. The PPP line was partly wrong, we need PPP support by the kernel.

• Finished to correct my bad English checked by Graham. I know it still remains many mistakes and new ones come every time I write a sentence...

• Added a "compatibility with a printer" section.

• Added a Null-Printer == Null-Modem comment.

• Added a "build your own cable" section.

• Corrected a bug in the Slackware section. Here (inverted IP adresses). Thanks to Brad Rigby.

• never be obsolete paragraph in Introduction section.

• known translated version demand in the Introduction section.

• Mentioned the what's new section at the top of the document.

• Added a vc-header in the What's new section

• Added the WHAT_IS_NEW label

v1.22, 16 June 2000

• Added a mention to PARTED http://www.gnu.org/software/parted as told by Andrew Clausen (clausen@gnu.org).

• Added section Installing Slackware, RedHat, or Caldera, by Florent SAUNIER.

• Corrected some English faults, thanks to Graham and Tomas.

v1.15, 26 November 1999

• The section "What's new". It is this section.

• The section "Install the plip interface permanently".

• The section "List of contributors and acknowledgements".

• Joined the different chapters dealing with the detailed Debian installation to form a single chapter with the actual chapters as just subsections.

• Made a new section "Installing from a DOS partition". A simpler and faster method.