veit (du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de) (10/11/90)
Remote error: 441 User usenet does not exist! Can't post. /usr/local/bin/inews failed Your response has been saved in ~/dead.letter Your article/letter follows: Probably another candidate for the list of FAQ, but I need a clear yes- or no-statement. We do use Minix in our computer science lessons for demonstrating some properties of UNIX and UNIX-like file systems (you know, inodes and such stuff). Unfortunately, unlike MSDOS, it is still impossible to install and therefore protect Minix on a Novell-Net Server. Some questions have come up whether it is possible to give a copy of the PC-MINIX 1.2 discs to students for their own studies. It it obvious that this will lead to a wide spread of Minix. We think that this would not cause very much harm since the official release is 1.5.whatever; so 1.2 is far out of date. 1. Is it allowed to sell (price of the floppies about 5$) the nine 360k discs of Minix 1.2 to students for their studies? 2. If not, may we at least copy the binaries disks (Boot, Ramdisk, /usr) excluding the sources? (In our lessons we examine the file system with DOS programs like SUPERZAP and do not have a close look at the C sources). Thanks in advance Holger Veit Faculty of EE Dept. for Dataprocessing University of Duisburg