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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD Date: 29 Aug 1995 19:24:59 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <41vpib$omb@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <41bp9a$2lj@sloth.swcp.com> <41iapa$17m@sundog.tiac.net> <41jcrt$hev@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <41sv78$pjt@sundog.tiac.net> <41ugcb$3l4@shell2.best.com> <41vhdm$irv@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:41vhdm$irv@sundog.tiac.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:18156 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5015 Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote: >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. Hi Guys, I think that is much better to slug it out with the windoze corp types . At work yesterday, trying to setup Win95 to work with TCP/IP and an ethernet card. My friend does a "ping <ip-address> ", the whole window setup freezes for a few seconds and he said: What Happen? I told him: Oh, Win95 is doing multitasking :) -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046, Fax 415-495-3046, Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com