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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!stl!bnr.co.uk!row
- From: row@bnr.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Minix/Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.132246.12110@bnr.co.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 13:22:46 GMT
- Sender: daemon@bnr.co.uk
- Reply-To: row@bnr.co.uk ()
- Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB
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- Has anybody got a port of Minix working ?
-
- The README file for the Minix ported by Martin Patze that I got
- from titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de via ftp doesn't sound too promising:
-
- >The port was a one shot. It was never intended to release the port, so...
- >documentation? What is it? Many things are missing or don't work as they
- >should (Floppy should, but does not work, rs232 & lp are missing, also some
- >kernel functions - especially the ptrace system call - are not ported).
- >Demand paging works. C compiler must be used under Risc-OS.
- >I used Norcroft-C Version 2.01A.
-
- >Another WARNING: I dont't know, if I started the port from plain 1.5.10.
- >So it could be possible that some patches can't be applied correctly.
- >You will have to edit the files by hand...
- >...Yep! The port didn't start from plain 1.5.10. You will have problems
- >using the patches. Sorry.
-
- Has anyone other than Martin got this to compile and run ?
-
- What are the possibilities of getting Linux running on the Archimedes,
- would anyone that has attempted to port Minix like to comment ?
-
- Thanks
-
- P.S All these people who are making their software "shareware" suck - espicially
- when they ask the net for help ! Peeps give their help for free and then they
- start selling the software. How many of these people use all the wonderful
- PD software that other people have written - why should they charge ?
-
- P.P.S Note the lack of :-) in the above !
-
- Reuben O. Wells - BNR Europe Ltd - (+44) 279 403704
-