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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 10:07:46 MET
-
- Hello!
-
- I'm now using MiNT as a UNiX substitute from version 0.92 on, which must
- be almost 2 years ago. In these years I've often found myself very happy
- about being able to take benefit from the bunch of ported software and
- thus the work of many people spreaded all over the world. :-)
-
- But I've also found myself very unhappy, yes, indeed sometimes quite
- angry, about some software being ported for another setup, so that it
- doesn't find the correct paths on mine, or isn't able to use standard
- UNiX filenames with slashes, or sometimes breaks due to the memory
- protection on my TT. :-(
-
- Clearly that's because of everyone does his/her own port with his/her own
- preferences in mind. Not that I'm not gratefull for being able to use this
- software, but I'd have liked a bit more standartization all the time.
-
- You may have made similar experiences.
-
- I've seen the great installation kits for Linux, and was quite impressed
- about these ready-to-go bundles, where everything was really consistent.
- That's how I came to the idea of making something like this for MiNT too,
- and sporadically started talking to some net-friends.
-
- In the last few weeks, common interest seems to have risen, and in the
- last few days we've exchanged quite a lot of mails, driving us to the
- conclusion that it might be a good idea to establish a mailing list for
- exchanging our ideas.
-
- Note: We're not (yet) going to distribute any software, but merely discussing
- the way consistency could be achieved without paying the price of a great
- maintainance work. We're not going to replace the MiNT Distribution Kit by
- Simon Gornall, since we're going to concentrate a `bit' more on UNiX
- features, programs and compatibility. That is in my eyes: We're not going
- to make very big concessions to GEM or the TOSFS.
-
- All this may sound simple, but then: Why hasn't anybody done it yet?
-
- If you're seriously interested in discussing this topic and perhaps
- willing to spend some work on it also, you're invited to subscribe to the
- mailing list I'm running from today on. All you've got to do is send a
- mail to <itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> with a quick note. You'll
- soon later receive a summarization of our ideas so far... which isn't
- very much so far, I'm afraid.
-
- Later contributions to the list can be done by sending mail to the same
- adress, but ensuring that it has the string `MINTOS' anywhere in the
- subject line.
-
- Since I'm running this on my normal student account, I'd like to ask you
- to only subscribe if you're seriously interested in joining us and not to
- send larger mails or binaries over it. We'll sure find other ways of
- exchanging them :-)
-
- Additional remark: Or do you think we should run this discussion over
- this list?
-
- That's it, feel free to reply... :-)
-
- bye,
- TeSche (Torsten Scherer), itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- --
- PS: Sorry, but it's my style to express things preferably in longer words :-)
-
- --
- PS: If the above written looks weird, then that's probably because it _IS_.
- Torsten Scherer (Schiller, TeSche...), University of Bielefeld, Germany
- ==> itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de / tesche@hrz.uni-bielefeld.de <==
-