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From: HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Suggestion regarding Minix distribution
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:24:10 GMT
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(Please, no flames in response to this suggestion...)

Having read all the comments regarding the size of future Minix
distributions (read: more disks) and the suggestions
as to packaging, compressing, and so on, it seems like it might be good
to:
     1) Distribute the minimal set of executables and Prentice-Hall
        copyrighted source code as the official MINIX, and
     2) Have a group (MINIX User's Group (MUG?)) offer everything
        else (elle, yacc, intermediate upgrades to kernel, fs, & mm,
        etc...) as binaries/source on disks, as well as coordinating
        archive sites.

I realize that this probably is less than ideal in many ways, but it
offers many advantages over raising the price for Minix or trying
to find better compression algorithms for the complete source.

Anyway, if there's interest in forming a Minix User's Group, I'd like
to hear about it.
.
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