Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX Distribution: world References: Date: 20 May 91 17:21:37 PST Organization: Not an Organization In article Mario_Capellari@turtle.stgt.sub.org (Mario Capellari) writes: >Ist there any Shareware or Public Domain Version of UNIX avaible for the >Amiga? > >I know that some people would laugh, and also I`ve never heard about it, but >who kows it, if nobodys asks??? > >so long, > >-- Via DLG Pro v.96 Beta > >mario capellari | BBS`s for Amiga greetings.... >7000 Stuttgart 1 | ++49 711 6407689 the >FRG | ++49 711 6498429 TurtleSystems >UseNet:!aragon!tyrell!turtle!mario | 24H a day Not really, yet. However, there are three major moves towards a 100% freeware UNIX. (1) MACH, from Carnegie Mellon (forgive me if I got the spelling wrong). Currently the kernel core is freely available. No complete device drivers or UNIX command utilities that I know of yet, though. (2) GNU GNU is, I believe, working on a UNIX based on Mach. GNU already has many freely available UNIX utilities online including their C compiler, GCC. (3) BSD Berkeley is making a move to remove all AT&T code from BSD UNIX, perhaps for 4.4 (?) I don't know. They have already released several berkeley utilities as freeware. They may be basing either 4.4 or the one after on a Mach III core but I am not sure of that. I believe the best bet will be BSD. Current rumor puts it at about a year away. You can *bet* that the moment they release it I will begin to port it to the Amiga. BSD has always been a much cleaner implementation of UNIX than Sys VR4. The current limitations, those relating to VM management (no shared memory or file mapping) should be removed by 4.4, I have heard they are redoing the entire VM subsystem. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA