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Xref: sserve aus.computers.linux:3418 aus.computers:4490 comp.os.linux.answers:76 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce:23 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce:28 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!unico.com.au!unico.com.au!not-for-mail From: andrew@buddha.unico.com.au (Andrew Cosgriff) Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,aus.computers,comp.os.linux.answers,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD Resources in Australia (regular posting) Date: 1 May 1995 14:21:46 +1000 Organization: UNICO Computer Systems Lines: 625 Approved: linux-answers@news.ornl.gov (Matt Welsh) Message-ID: <3o1nkq$1el@buddha.unico.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: buddha.unico.com.au Keywords: linux netbsd freebsd resources australia list ftp dialup bbs usergroups shops people X-Something-or-Other: yes Archive-Name: unix/australia/resources ** NOTE ** In case you didn't work it out from the name, i've changed the format a bit. This list is available in five pieces, namely : * Dialup sites (ie. BBSes et al.) * FTP sites * People who can lend disks and/or help (if you can offer help but no disks, that's fine ! contact me !) * Shops * User Groups It's available both in HTML and plain text. I've changed my mail server at home, see below for details. This first cut is probably a little rough around the edges, so i'd appreciate any corrections. Enjoy, Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Canonical" List of Australian Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD resources. 1993-5 Andrew J. Cosgriff andrew@bing.apana.org.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any additions and/or comments on this list, please mail me at one of the following addresses : andrew@bing.apana.org.au andrew@unico.com.au (if you simply use and/or like the list, I'd also like to hear :) I cannot guarantee that this list is completely up to date (or accurate) 100% of the time, so i'd really appreciate updates. You can get the list by one of the following methods : 1. From the USENET newsgroups aus.computers.linux, aus.computers, comp.os.linux.announce, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce and comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce 2. by WWW from my home page at http://grover.apana.org.au/~cos. 3. by sending mail to me (andrew@bing.apana.org.au) with "send file ozunix/All.txt" as the subject of the message (anything in the body of the message will be ignored). Use a subject of "send file help" for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIALUP SITES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New South Wales - Sydney area * Name : Assorted C Software (asstdc.com.au) Number : (02) 314-5902 (V.FC) Sysop / Contact Address : Michael Butler <imb@asstdc.com.au> Notes : This BBS has the full FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 and 2.0-Release archives available for download (although it will take more than one call due to other commitments for these modems). The NetBSD-1.0 release archives (and patches) will also be made available shortly. To ensure their "current" status, these areas are automagically maintained by "mirror". QIC-150 or QIC-250 tapes can be made on request (and supply of an appropriate tape :-)). * Name : Kralizec Number : (02) 837-1183 and (02) 837-1868 (300-14400 bps + v.42bis, 8N1), login as 'guest' Sysop / Contact Address : Nick Andrew <info@zeta.org.au> Notes : o basic charge $15/month (15 hours online per month). o full Internet link. o additional connect time $1/hour. o $60 up-front fee (which gives $60 credit). Credit Cards (Bankcard, Visa, Mastercard) supported. o 17 lines (guest access on two), most at 28.8k o 2 Hosts, Kralizec and Godzilla. o reading and posting email and news is free. o Services provided : E-mail, USENET, ftp, telnet, irc, gopher, www, archie, own www homepage, caching www server. o no internet volume charging. o SLIP protocol connections available for $20 once-off fee (charging is at the same rate as terminal-based connections). o we place a lot of emphasis on quality and reliability. o $20 credit to your account if you introduce Kralizec to a friend. o 6 CD-ROMs online, inc. Yggdrasil Plug 'n' Play, et al. o Slackware (and other stuff) is mirrored from Sunsite. o about 400mb of Linux and other goodies online. o Second host (Godzilla) actually runs Linux. o more to come ! * Name : Linux Support OZ (lsupoz.apana.org.au) Number : (02) 418-8750 (v.32bis - 3 lines) Sysop / Contact Address : Anthony Rumble <smilie@lsupoz.apana.org.au> Notes : My system offers Shell Accounts for $5 a month or 12c/hour + $10 joining fee. It has Linux Files, and Internet News/E-Mail (And it runs under Linux). * NOTE * We have 250 members now, so we're no longer taking new memberships. * Name : Triode Number : (02)-389-8022 (7 line rotary with 3 V.Fast modems) Sysop : Paul Black Notes : The interests I'm catering for are developer oriented with special interests in C/C++, Object Oriented, Linux Sources, Music and SF. I've got heaps of online storage and 6 CDROMS which I am populating with the latest Linux sources. Do your PC a favour login to Triode and download Linux or a new kernel... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New South Wales - Wollongong area * Name : ILB Computing Number : (042) 25-8099 Sysop : Kevin Withnall <kevin@ilb.com.au> Notes : News/Mail and Periodic updates of /Linux dir from Sunsite. Batch ftp system available. Mail Kevin for more info. * Name : dwarf.apana.org.au Number : (042) 97 3837 Sysop : Russell Noble Notes : Public access site with full slackware distribution online and some other various pieces of Linux software. (BBS caters for anything-but-DOS ie. has Mac, Linux and OS/2 archives). Login as "guest" and apply for an account. Has the usual news/email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New South Wales - Hunter Valley * Name : the Toaster Number : 049 423565 (9 am till 1 am AEST) Sysop : Matt McLeod <matt@toaster.hna.com.au> Notes : Modest collection of Linux sources/binaries. The system is more geared towards helping Linux newbies. * Name : Craggenmoore Number : 049 611695 (3 lines, 2 14k4, 1 9k6) Sysop : Michael Brown <mbrown@hna.com.au> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Queensland * Name : Desire BBS Number : 07 371 1190 (14.4k) Voice : (07) 371 3237 (Noddy/Virgil/Phil) and (07) 355 4162 (Phil) Sysops : Reagan Blundell <noddy@desire.apana.org.au> along with Michael Tornai <virgil@desire.apana.org.au> and Phil Homewood <phil@rivendell.apana.org.au>. Expertise : o Linux (mail to linux@brisbane.apana.org.au). o FreeBSD (mail to FreeBSD@brisbane.apana.org.au). Notes : Contact the sysops first for an account ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria * Name : Aardvark (aardvark.apana.org.au) Number : (03) 562-0599 (28.8k VFast - 3 lines) Sysop : Scott Neville <scott@aardvark.apana.org.au> Notes : Full access shell accounts for $55/year. There is the InfoMagic linux developer cdroms online. Running Linux of course.. :) * Name : Suburbia Number : (03) 596-8366 (Multiline) (2400 bps, plus 2 14.4k's) Sysops : zerohour@suburbia.apana.org.au, proff@suburbia.apana.org.au Notes : o Provides IRC, email, news, telnet, ftp, etc. via a full internet link. o Shell or Menu accounts available. o Has an `xfer' login if you just want to download stuff from their anon. ftp area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Australia * Name : The Abyss (Informed Technology - it.com.au) Number : (09) 245-2511 (mostly v32, 8 lines) Admin : o Stephen Darragh <srd@it.com.au> - general contact and owner. o Pat Mackinlay <pat@it.com.au> - Linux stuff. Notes : This system provides interactive Unix accounts as well as SLIP or UUCP connections. There are three hosts networked, the main one running Esix, one with Linux and one with FreeBSD. Costs are $120/year for a full read/write Usenet/email/file transfer account or $45/year for read-only news. Oh yeah - there are no time limits or time charges as such. Give us a call for more details. * Name : iiNet technologies Voice : (09) 307 1183 Admin : iinet@iinet.com.au. Notes : Have a number of linux boxen on the net. Main one is classic.iinet.com.au. Have full mirror of slackware, and bits and piece of lots of other things. Main business is selling internet access in the perth area. Can offer full PPP access, and full IP accounts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTP SITES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * archie.au/4.4BSD-Lite Distrbutions : 4.4 BSD-Lite CD * bond.edu.au/pub/OS/Linux Distributions : SLS, MCC, Slackware, 386BSD, 4.4BSD-Lite. Maintainer : David J. Hughes <Bambi@Bond.edu.au> Notes : Full mirror of tsx-11.mit.edu with bits of sunsite. * broncho.ct.monash.edu.au:/pub/FreeBSD-(version)-RELEASE Distributions : FreeBSD Maintainer : Simon Lai <sjlai@broncho.ct.monash.edu.au> Notes : If people want to send me tapes or diskettes I am happy to copy FreeBSD onto them. (email me before sending anything please !) * cutl.city.unisa.edu.au:/pub/freebsd Distributions : FreeBSD (with XFree86, ports, packages, etc.) Maintainer : Mark de Raad<Mark.deRaad@UniSA.edu.au> * ftp.dstc.edu.au:/pub/(linux|netbsd) Distributions : Full mirror of sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux and netbsd.rmit.edu.au:/pub/NetBSD Maintainer : David Conran <lucifer@dstc.edu.au> and Jason Andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Notes : Mirrored nightly. Located at UofQ, Brisbane. * minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au:/BSD Distributions : FreeBSD, 4.4 BSD-Lite, XFree86 (also has some Minix stuff). Maintainer : Warren Toomey <wkt@SPARCserve.cs.adfa.oz.au> * mirriwinni.ee.adfa.oz.au:/pub/FreeBSD Distributions : FreeBSD, XFree86 (also has some local packages). Maintainer : Phillip Musumeci <phillip@ee.adfa.oz.au> * monu1.cc.monash.edu.au:/pub/linux Distributions : MCC, Slackware Maintainer : Tim MacKenzie <tym@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au> Notes : Slackware, Kernel Sources, XFree86, Linux Doc Project, and a few others from sunsite.unc.edu * netbsd.rmit.edu.au:/pub/{NetBSD,contrib,sup} Distributions : NetBSD (all architectures) and NetBSD-current. Maintainer : root@netbsd.rmit.edu.au (Luke Mewburn et al.) Notes : Also provides anonymous SUP services to the -current source tree. FreeSec (a `cleanroom' version of crypt for Australian UNIX users) is also available in /pub/contrib. * yamabico.cs.uow.edu.au:/pub/linux Distributions : MCC, Slackware, SLS Notes : Also has BETA & packages dir. trees from tsx-11, lib dir. from sunsite, docs directory, and more... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACT * Name : Karl Auer <Karl.Auer@anu.edu.au> Phone : (06) 249 4627 Distributions : Slackware Disk Format : 3.5" (can make 5.25" boot disks on request) Notes : The way it works is simple - you take my disks, you bring them back in 24 hours or less. What you do with them in that time is your business provided they stay clean and readable. Expertise : Samba * Name : Peter Wishart <pjw@canb.auug.org.au> Phone : (06) 275 0908 Fax : (06) 257 1052 Distribution : SLS, TransAmeriTech CD, Yggdrasil CD Disk Format : 3.5" / CD Notes : Happy to lend to people in the Canberra area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New South Wales * Name : Tim Posney <timp@extro.ucc.su.oz.au> Notes : I have an older release of Linux on floppy and a release on CD (the JANA disk). I am about to order another distribution on CD and would be happy to lend that out to. I am more than happy for people to make copies of anything on the CD, but I don't have a spare CD drive to lend to people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Queensland * Name : APANA Brisbane Expertise : o Linux (mail to linux@brisbane.apana.org.au). o FreeBSD (mail to FreeBSD@brisbane.apana.org.au). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Australia * Name : SALUG (See in User Groups listing) Address : geoffrey@tafe.sa.edu.au (Contact address for SALUG) Distributions : Slackware, Debian Notes : If people contact SALUG I sure someone will arrange a loan of a distribution. We are spread around Adelaide geographically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria * Name : Hamish Coleman <hamish@zot.apana.org.au> Distributions : Yggdrasil Alpha CD-ROM, Mirror image of his Hard Disk (!) Disk Format : CD-ROM, Hard Disk >= 30mb Notes : Ask for more details on this bizarre offer... * Name : Andrew Cosgriff <andrew@unico.com.au> or <andrew@bing.apana.org.au>. Distributions : MCC, Slackware, TransAmeritech July 1994 Supplement CD Disk Format : 3.5", 150mb QIC Tape (8mm Exabyte 2.3 or 5gb tape can be arranged) * Name : Bob Smart <smart@mel.dit.csiro.edu.au> Distributions : TAMU Notes : Why TAMU - Because you can get the exact sources that produced it. I like the idea of being able to recreate all my software from source. * Name : Noel Tippett <ndt@iconix.oz.au> Distributions : SLS, Slackware Disk Format : 3.5" Notes : I have a set of 3.5 SLS linux disks I am willing to lend in the Werribee area, or near. I am also able to bring the disks to Williamstown during bus hours for pick-up from there if need be. Phone o Bus : (03) 244 4647 Between 1pm and 2pm *only* o AH : (03) 741 7296 Bewteen 6pm and 10pm weekdays and all day on weekends ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACT * Name : The Software Shop Address : 42 Townshend St, Philip 2606 Phone : (06) 285 4622 Notes : Apparently whenever they get stocks in, it goes straight out the door so it is best if you place orders and get them to call you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New South Wales * Name : VK Computer Pty Ltd Address : 131 Bathurst St, Sydney 2000 Phone : (02)-283-2079 Notes : They have a good range of Linux CD Roms in stock. The owner David Wan is very Linux aware and can advise on which hardware will or wont work with Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria * Name : Laserbaud Address : 49 Ramsden St, Clifton Hill 3068 Phone : (03) 482 3814 Fax : (03) 482 3876 Notes : Last catalogue mentions : Infomagic, Plug 'n' Play, Morse, FreeBSD 2.0, X11R6, 4.4 BSD-Lite, PrimeTime Freeware, et al. * Name : SuperCom Computers Address : 12 Macedon Plaza, 325 Manningham Road, Lower Templestowe, Vic 3107. Phone : (03) 850 6053 Fax : (03) 852 2021 Email : info@supercom.DIALix.oz.au Notes : Linux Professional, SWiM 2.0, dBMAN, FlagShip, Dr. Linux, ccelerated-X (for Linux), BSDisc (FreeBSD 2.0, NetBSD 1.0 and XFree86 .1). Linux Journal coming soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USER GROUPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLUG - the Canberra Linux Users Group Meeting Time : 7:00pm on the fourth Thursday of each month Meeting Place : Leonard Huxley lecture theatre, Leonard Huxley building, Australian National University. Organizer : Stephen Rothwell <Stephen.Rothwell@pd.necisa.oz.au> Contact Address : Andrew Tridgell <Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au> Mailing List : linux@listproc.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LUV - the Linux Users of Victoria Started : first meeting was on the 6th of July 1993 Meeting Time : 7:00pm on the first Tuesday of each month Meeting Place : Theatre 2 (in the basement, SEECS building, 221 Bouverie St Carlton (A little bit west of the old venue at CITRI) President : Hamish Coleman <hamish@zot.apana.org.au> Vice President : Andrew Humphrey <andrew@grover.apana.org.au> Secretary : Andrew Cosgriff <secretary@grover.apana.org.au> Contact Address : Andrew Cosgriff <secretary@grover.apana.org.au> Mailing List : melblinux@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au WWW : http://grover.apana.org.au/luv/luv.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLUG - Perth Linux User Group Started : first meeting sometime in June 1993, restarted in March 1995 Meeting Time : 7:30pm on the last Wednesday of each month Meeting Place : Edith Cowan University (Mt. Lawley Campus), Bradford St, Mt. Lawley, Building 17 Room 203 Organiser : Patrick D'Cruze <pdcruze@iinet.com.au> Contact Address : Patrick D'Cruze <pdcruze@iinet.com.au> Newsgroup : wa.plug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note : This is in Brisbane (in case you don't lnow where Griffith Uni is) SCA User Group : The Griffith University Student Computing Association Group Started : A long time ago - only recently have we offered support for Linux Meeting Time : The second Sunday of each month, 12:00pm until late Meeting Place : Technology building, Griffith Univeristy, Nathan. Room 0.20 (level 0) Organiser : Griffith University Student Computing Association Contact Address : Dave Connors <sca@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au> Mailing List : Setting up an SCA announcements list NOW! Keep an eye on aus.computers.* for details. Notes : The Linux support is only a recent addition to the group, so we'll need some good user involvement to build the group up to a good base. Free parking, free entry and a comfortable air conditioned environment make the facilities ideal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SALUG - South Australian Linux Users Group Started : first meeting was on the 29th of November 1993 Meeting Time : 7:00pm every second Monday Meeting Place : currently Flinders Uni Clubs and Socs Workroom President-ish : Steven Clark Secretary-ish : Geoffrey Bennett Contact Address : Geoffret Bennett <geoffrey@tafe.sa.edu.au> Mailing List : salug@tafe.sa.edu.au WWW : http://www.jrc.flinders.edu.au/LINUX/SALUG/index.html Notes : Send mail to Salug-request@tafe.sa.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLUG - the Sydney Linux Users Group Started : first meeting was 25th of June 1993 Meeting Time : 6:30pm, last Friday of every month Meeting Place : UTS, Building 2, Room 639 President : Jamie Honan <jhonan@jolt.mpx.com.au> Contact Address : slug-owner@lsupoz.apana.org.au Mailing List : slug@lsupoz.apana.org.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- andrew@bing.apana.org.au Last changed: Wed Apr 26 19:17:58 1995 by Andrew J. Cosgriff -- - Andrew J. Cosgriff - andrew@unico.com.au - SysAdmin, UNICO Computer Systems. Mail Server - "send file help" as subject PGP and/or MIME ok "When I hear the sound of your voice You leave me no choice" (Front 242)