protonen@daimi.aau.dk (Lars J|dal) (04/04/91)
Thank you for the answers I got. Just for the benefit of those who also wanted to know, I have cut out the essentials of two of the E-mails I got: > protonen@daimi.aau.dk (Lars J|dal): > > If I update Minix 1.X to 1.Y with patches, how close will I be to a system > > 1.Y bought at PH? What I mean is that a patch is a patch (...so I guess :-) ) > > so any new utility programs will not be present with patches, right? > > (Actually I'm thinking of ST Minix 1.1 -> 1.5, but the question is meant > > to be generel). > I upgraded from Minix ST 1.1 to 1.5.10.3, and got exactly the same > result as one would get from buying it. (Actually, the version sold > by PH is the patched version of Frans Meulenbroeks ;-)) > HOWEVER, you _do_ miss a new manual, which includes most of the {fs,mm,kernel} > sources, all man pages, and installation instructions. It's highly > questionable if this is worth the $170, but still... > If you use the official patches (and have no transfer troubles), you > should end up with the exact same distribution as the Prentice-Hall > distribution (with the possible exception of the C compiler binary). |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Lars J|dal | (put your favourite quotation here) | | protonen@daimi.aau.dk | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Computer Science Department - Aarhus University - Aarhus - Denmark | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|