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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix v1.6.x, When?
Message-ID: <9103211856@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 21 Mar 91 16:06:23 GMT
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Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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KENC@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Ken Corey, CSCI Major...) wrote:
>>	Also, what is the status of various versions of certain packages?
>>Fred's updated uucp, amoeba (missing from plains upgrade package), and the
>>sources for c68/c386 (which were said to be put on plains, as well as thee
>>NLMUG sources)

1.  W-NEWS is currently being beta-tested worldwide.  Looks good, so keep
    your eyes on this newsgroup.

2. W-MAIL is undergoing a cleanup, after lots of optimizations in the code.
   Should be posted soon, too.

3. U-MAIL is undergoing a _heavy_ change: it now supports internetworking
   a la sendmail (i.e. a network daemon).  It will take quite some time to
   get this cleaned up, but I might post the current version (3.49D, see
   header of this message) if people want it.

4. UUCP/4E is now in pre-alpha test phase on several machines over here
   (most notably "minixug", "uwalt" and "sensei").  It runs fine, but
   needs (yes, again) some cleaning up and, if possible, some speed
   fine tunings (I am not happy with the 90% line utilization...).
   Also, it needs proper documentation this time.

5. All other MicroWalt projects have been set aside for a while, to get
   UUCP/4E out as soon as possible.  Many, many people are waiting for
   it, so I thought that would be best.

6. NLMUG Advanced MINIX is also undergoing have changing.  We are now in
   the "Unification" phase, which basically means that we are merging all
   existing versions of MINIX into one source tree.  The ultimate goal is
   to have only some system #if's in MM and the kernel dir, not in FS and
   the commands. This should be OK in half a year or so, maybe sooner.

7. All NLMUG stuff (correct name: MUGNET Software Library) _will_ be
   stuffed into various FTP-servers, as soon as we get a means of sending
   the stuff over cheaply.  It is not fun to send 30Mbyte of stuff to the
   US over a phone line :-(

   I am afraid it will be a buch of floppies being sent around the world...

Cheers,
	Fred
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