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From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 22 Jun 1994 14:58:57 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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References: <2tpn5t$ai0@scus1.ctstateu.edu> <Jun17.205621.60191@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1994Jun20.094913.1@vscrna.cern.ch> <VIXIE.94Jun20091941@office.home.vix.com>
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In article <VIXIE.94Jun20091941@office.home.vix.com>,
Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote:
>> Think it would be considered appropriate for posting on comp.sources.unix ?
>
>Since it fills a CDROM, I think I can safely say that it's too large.
>
But not everyone NEEDS (another) copy of the same old utility sources,
at least not immediately. My (admittedly uninformed) guess is that
much of the 4.4-lite tree is very similar to the Net/2 tree, at least
in the /usr/src/{sbin,usr.bin,bin} areas.
It seems to me that the kernel sources from 4.4-lite, which should
make for the most interesting bed-side reading material, would be an
*extremely* appropriate post for comp.sources.unix. The kernel source
tree should be of a reasonable size; in fact, it should be a drop in
the daily USENET bit-bucket.
In fact, distributing 4.4-lite parts via USENET is a great idea, since
then ftp-server load becomes a non-issue. All the comp.sources.unix
archives would help spread the load.
Of course, that would probably cut way into O'Reilly's CD-ROM sales...
;-) ;-) ;-)
Jon
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