Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: >>Where is MINIX going? Message-ID: <1990Dec13.232043.25245@dsuvax.uucp> Date: 13 Dec 90 23:20:43 GMT References: <3735@rwthinf.UUCP> <7129@plains.NoDak.edu> Organization: Dakota State University Lines: 32 In <7129@plains.NoDak.edu> overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) writes: > [... lots of suggestions about archives deleted ...] >I had hoped that the "minix referees" group would take more of a commanding >position (along the lines of the "distributed comp.sources.unix" group being >flamed about on the admin groups) but that did not happen. There doesn't >seem to be many volunteers willing to make the time commitment to put >something like this together and keep it going. I am interested in starting a moderated newsgroup, suggested name "comp.sources.minix", where I might accept sources from those on the net, package the sources in a standard format, and then post those sources. I'm worried that I may not be able to handle testing every module by myself, and I know for a fact that I can't test every single little bug fix that goes by. However, I have been keeping a personal archive of major things that have gone by in the past 8 months. I've organized it into a somewhat complete 'unsupported' Minix source code hierarchy, and back in September I offered pieces to the net on disk. Sometime in the future I'd like to bundle what I have and provide to an archive server so everyone may FTP it. (I just did a "du" on my "unsupported" directory, and it's over 5Mb total!). Comments? (what a silly question :-) :-) >-- > Glen Overby > uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet) -- Guy Helmer helmer@sdnet.bitnet, uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer work: DSU Computing Services, Business & Education Institute (605) 256-5315 play: MidIX System Support Services (605) 256-2788 postnews: message content ambiguous; spurious information added as required