richard@ucf-cs.ucf.edu (02/02/90)
/* Written 9:32 am Jan 24, 1990 by ghelmer@DSUVAX.UUCP in ucf-cs.ucf.edu:comp.os.minix */ > Maybe a Minix User's Group could send out complete source disks upon > receipt of money and the original boot disk from a purchased Minix. > This would ensure that no one could get 1.5.0 without having 1.1, 1.2, > or 1.3. I purchased Minix 1.1 for a class several years ago. I got the book and a set of disks. Since that class, I have moved several times. I didn't use Minix in the intervening time because I was running a 4.77 MHz clone with no hard drive and only 1 360K floppy. Recently, I was able to purchase a 386 with sufficient hard disk space and, lo and behold, my interest in Minix was revived. I still had the book, but can't find the disks. Should I be prevented from using the upgrade path because I can't produce a boot disk? I am running 1.2 that was given to me by a friend, but I want to upgrade to 1.5. What is the current "legal" upgrade path and how does Minix 1.5 obtained by this path differ from Minix 1.5 created by downloading diffs and building it myself? Richard Dunn-Roberts richard@ist1.ucf-cs.ucf.edu Visual Systems Lab Institute for Simulation and Training 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32826 (407) 658 5074/5073 <prior to posting, insert incredibly witty and pithy comment to impress all with my perspicacity>
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (02/02/90)
I think just splitting the sources out into a single separate group
would be the best idea. I could run the vote if you like.
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v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'ghelmer@DSUVAX.uucp (Guy Helmer) (02/02/90)
In article <12500003@ucf-cs.ucf.edu>, richard@ucf-cs.ucf.edu writes: > /* Written 9:32 am Jan 24, 1990 by ghelmer@DSUVAX.UUCP in ucf-cs.ucf.edu:comp.os.minix */ > > Maybe a Minix User's Group could send out complete source disks upon > > receipt of money and the original boot disk from a purchased Minix. > > This would ensure that no one could get 1.5.0 without having 1.1, 1.2, > > or 1.3. > > I purchased Minix 1.1 for a class several years ago. I got the book and > a set of disks. > ... > I still had the book, but can't find the disks. Should I be > prevented from using the upgrade path because I can't produce a boot disk? No. My proposal was made because I think people want the 1.5 upgrade _now_. Prentice-Hall apparently will be selling one, but it won't be available for several months. If a Minix User's Group (which doesn't exist yet on this continent) were to sell upgrade kits that contained a 1.5 boot disk, I think the group would need a way to cover itself to prove it wasn't violating copyrights. The only way I could think of then was to require an original boot disk. > Richard Dunn-Roberts richard@ist1.ucf-cs.ucf.edu -- Guy Helmer ...!uunet!loft386!dsuvax!ghelmer Dakota State University Computing Services helmer@sdnet.bitnet Software Engineering: "'How to program if you cannot.'" - Dijkstra
bcs@lightning.cis.ufl.edu (Bradley C. Spatz) (02/03/90)
In article <9785@nigel.udel.EDU> Dickson@system-m.phx.bull.com (Paul Dickson) writes: >I can't see how the Referee'd approach would work? >In my opinion, a better way to split comp.os.minix would be to add two other >groups. One would be moderated and would one have the defacto updates to >Minix. The other would be a general sources so others can test various >versions and bug fixes, keeping comp.os.minix free for discussions only. I agree wholeheartedly. Separate groups is the way to go in my opinion. In fact, I have been surprised that sources, updates, and discussions have occurred in the same group. -- Bradley C. Spatz Internet: bcs@ufl.edu Computer and Information Sciences BITNET: spatz@uffsc College of Engineering University of Florida "School IS hell" -- Matt Groening