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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD Date: 29 Aug 1995 17:05:58 GMT Organization: Elision Lines: 41 Message-ID: <41vhdm$irv@sundog.tiac.net> References: <41bp9a$2lj@sloth.swcp.com> <41iapa$17m@sundog.tiac.net> <41jcrt$hev@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <41sv78$pjt@sundog.tiac.net> <41ugcb$3l4@shell2.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:18045 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4993 rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter) wrote: >>Yes. Making OS source supplied with the OS the norm is well worth the > ^^^^^^^^^ >Ahem. That's *buildable* OS source, which I see is now being delivered by >at least one of the varied "Linux" distributions, and has been the norm >for *bsd for quite a long while... Yes. Thanks for the correction. > >See "The Need for Vendor Source Code at NAS", > >http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/TechReports/RNDreports/RND-94-007/RND-94-007.html 403 forbidden. Either it cannot find my DNS name or I'm not allowed... > >for ammunition when you want to get buildable source code from a recalcitrant >vendor. Sounds like it would have been interesting. > >Cheers, >Russell > >Oh, and I guess I need a ps: piecing together the parts *does* *not* *count* In fact, I'd say that "buildable" isn't quite good enough. After you've built the OS from source then the resulting files had better match. :) Of course, with Linux there might be a question about just what it should match.... Hey, some of us happen to enjoy crusing about in the fog at 90 mph. -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/