Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Suggestion regarding Minix distribution Message-ID: <3376@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 26 Sep 89 14:04:06 GMT References: <24806@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 23 In article <24806@louie.udel.EDU> HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer) writes: > 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 Basically, I agree. At least, what I mean is, a certain amount of stuff goes into the P-H distribution, but clearly not everything. How much goes in is something I have to figure out, but clearly there will be things that don't go in. One possibility is for a MUG to distribute that. Another possibility is for P-H to have a second set of disks for Supplementary programs. An advantage of having P-H doing it is that despite the numerous complaints about them, by-and-large they get it right, and they are set up to distributed packages. The 20 times they screwed up, we have heard about it at great length on the net, but the thousand times they didn't, of course nobody said anything. When I post 1.4b this Fall, everyone should take a look to see if I have omitted useful software. Perhaps we can compile a list of things that I don't want to include in the basic distribution, and these can at least be archived in some convenient place and maybe eventually put on disk. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)