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- From: heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Gerald Heim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: Version 1.6.24b upgrade problems
- Date: 7 Jan 93 11:51:22
- Organization: organisiert? ich? ach was!
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- In-reply-to: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:04:52 GMT
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-
- Yes, I may have been wrong. Sorry.
- But I have found some Programms in there where the patches are larger than
- the sources (e.g. commands/ic).
-
- Nevertheless I have tried to get 1.6.24b up and running. And I failed.
- The first problem was building the library. Tsort is still buggy.
- (Well not exactly: I could compile a working tsort using gcc and linux :-> )
- Then I managed to build a new kernel, mm, fs and init.
- I was not able to get the new tools (forgot the names, substitutes for
- build and menu) running. They compiled w/o a warning, but didn't work.
-
- It seems to me, that the filesystem format has changed a bit, but I could
- find no documentation on it.
-
- All in all, this is such a story of frustration that i have decided to:
-
- - Stay with 1.5.10 since this patching needs too much time even using
- a 12 MHz-286. (Where are these masochists still using XTs? :->> )
-
- - Use the available patches for 1.5.10: shared text, virtual consoles,
- shutdown/reboot, nice ....
- This will result in a nice, stable and usable system.
-
- - 1.5.10 is POSIX enough for me. For special cases I will use Linux.
- Linux has a almost complete C-library, almost everything compiles fine.
- 1.5.10 uses the same filesystem format as Linux, so they are pretty
- compatible this way (except symlinks, but that won't matter).
-
- - I won't ever sell my copy of Minix, since I will never find a
- fool that will even pay half the price I paid. :->
-
- gjh
-
- BTW: Has anybody numbers of ppl actually using Minix? It seems the numbers
- are decreasing, considering all the "mama, please unsubscribe meeeee!"
- news in the last weeks...
-