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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: WHY ARE FREE OS'S IGNORED?!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.202929.17560@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 20:29:29 GMT
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- In article <steve.713329428@crash>, steve@crash.cts.com (Steve Morrison) writes:
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- | If Linux does all this, I'd like to know too. All I know is the name.
- | Is there a FAQ???
- Yes, see comp.os.linux
- | Who archives it???
- Several sites, tsx-11.mit.edu for one
- | Who maintains the source???
- You do. Linus does most of the kernel, some other people are
- doing gcc and X, and lots of us are porting apps.
- | Can you get binaris for Intel/ST506/VGA sytems?????
- Binsry disk images.
-
- Note that while Linux works and is free, there is lots of stuff in
- development. The C and X are in fine shape, virtual memory, shared
- libraries, etc, but there are some things in the kernal on the pending
- list, particularly in the IPC and networking area.
-
- It's ready today to be a compile, news and mail machine, but networking
- is minimal, and IPC is coming. Nice cheap home o/s, but I just got a new
- Dell 2.2 release for the serious home use machine.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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