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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: The patchkit (was Re: Excessive Interrupt Latencies)
Date: 22 Mar 1993 03:18:11 -0500
Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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Message-ID: <1ojso3$nk@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
References: <g89r4222.732307558@kudu> <1993Mar21.014401.2911@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <JKH.93Mar21025906@whisker.lotus.ie> <RANDY.93Mar21111347@sierra.UUCP>
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In article <RANDY.93Mar21111347@sierra.UUCP> randy@sierra.UUCP (Randy Terbush) writes:
>I feel it would take less time to put together a new source release at
>patchlevel 0 (386bsd-0.2.0 ??) than to argue about the lackings of the
>current patch system.
I agree.
On a related note, one of the big reasons I haven't been able to do
much with 386BSD is that the machine I'm trying to run it on only has
70MB of disk space. This is barely enough space to load bindist and
srcdist, let alone recompile anything. So, while I can apply the
patchkit, I can't recompile the various utilities because I don't have
enough disk space.
It sure would be nice if somebody would make a new bindist that
includes patched binaries, up to the current patchkit rev. It would
let people like me, who don't have the resources to recompile the
whole OS, use a more stable release of 386BSD than stock 0.1...
--
Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
| is squishy."
| -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture