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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: Xenix (tm) emulation for Linux almost works : -)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.222153.28882@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
- References: <1992Aug20.175616.8407@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <C-AMB.92Aug20124249@uglab20.math.utah.edu> <1992Aug20.193300.264@novell.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:21:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.193300.264@novell.com> usenet@novell.com (The Netnews Manager) writes:
- >I just grabbed the SLS package and installed it last night... very impressive.
- ...
- >
- >Another question. I'm not too clear as to where the SLS (0.96c I think)
- >fits in with 0.97 (shared libs, X vs gcc.2.2.2d, etc). I'd really like to
- >contribute to Linux but I'm fairly new to unix so I want to get to the point
- >where I can build the kernel and update to the latest and greatest before I
- >get started on a project. Thanks in advance!
- >
-
- SLS is a cross section of Linux frozen at about .96c. It looks like SLS
- will not move to .97, because Linus announced .98 will have > 64 Meg memory
- per process, which means a new GCC will have be be release, X11 whith its
- shared libs will have to be rebuilt, etc, etc. In other words, .97 may
- be very short lived. But that isn't to bad, considering it isn't to
- much more featureful than .96c. But don't expect SLS .98 for quite
- some time (2 months?). It takes a long time to compile all the pieces,
- and I would like to crystalize the file permissions and locations
- to widely acceptable values.
-
- >Dave
- >dvogt@novell.com
- >
- >
- >Generic Disclaimer : I speak only for myself
-
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- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
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