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From: gs%ecs.southampton.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Andy's comments on 1.5
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Date: 14 Feb 90 13:53:39 GMT
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I was very interested to see Andy's comments on P-H releasing 1.5 in an
unmanagable format for yet another price hike. With P-H UK's past record
on MINIX I dread such a development (if it ever happens here!) I would
therefore like to take Andy's advice and upgrade from the net, but so far
I have been wary of doing this because I don't know of a UK site which 
maintains an uptodate (ie, known bug fixes applied) copy.
Can anyone help? I am a fairly new subscriber to the net, so I do not know
the full history of 1.5 or it's bug fixes, and certainly don't have all
the postings of the bugs. Judging by the mail to the net, this is VERY
common! Most people seem to go through very tortuous routes to upgrade,
with constant pleas for help! Do we/could we not keep a maintained copy
of the latest version somewhere for new bods such as myself to access in
the certain knowledge that only future bug postings will apply?
(I realise this may be a tall order, but there must be many 1.5 users
out there with a stable system)
      M  A N Y   T H A N K S ! !

BTW We are running 1.3 as shipped on 2M Intel sys120 386 machines with
seagate drives, hd /usr and root in extended memory (from hd3). As this
takes yonks to install on each machine, will I have to junk this set up for
1.5?

Graham Sims
Dept of Computer Science
Southampton Uni., UK.
gs@uk.ac.soton.ecs