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From: shepard@finch.pa.dec.com (Mark Shepard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: WANTED: summary/location of major MINIX extensions/patches
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.021458.28585@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 02:14:58 GMT
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I'm new to MINIX (just got v1.5 from PH).  There seem to be quite a few
extensions for MINIX.  for instance,

        shoelaces,
        a symlinks extension,
        virtual consoles,
        386-isms, 680x0-isms, upgrade kits for 1.3 -> 1.5, etc.
        patches for various minix tools,
        improved device-drivers for various systems,
        ...

Could someone give me a summary of the most important (i.e. most useful)
patches and extensions to MINIX?   As someone new to MINIX, I don't know
what's worth FTP-ing and what's not;  I'd rather spend my time building
on other people's work that fixing already-fixed bugs.

I'd also like to hear OPINIONS:  what extensions have people installed,
what's a kludge and what's not, what do people find most useful.
(I'm collecting ideas for my own MINIX-verse).

****** I'll post a composite of whatever I info I received.

BTW, the MINIX Info_sheet should contain this type of info, but doesn't.

        Mark Shepard
        shepard@decpa.pa.dec.com
        ...!gatekeeper!shepard