Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Suggestion regarding Minix distribution Message-ID: <24806@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:24:10 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 23 (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. . -- Guy Helmer AT&T: (605) 256-5315 Dakota State University Computing Services (605) 256-6411 BITNET: HELMER@SDNET