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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: What post BSD/OS 2.1 needs
Date: 10 May 1996 11:06:25 -0700
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth
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>>All easily grabbed from the net and built, though the stock INN notes
>>are wrong for 2.x.

>Where are the errors for the above mentioned?

UNOFF-NOTES/config.data.BSDI2.0 has USE_UNION_WAIT set to DO, but the man page
and include file sure make it look like it should be DONT.  CFLAGS should have
-m486 added.  VAR_STYLE is set to VARARGS, yet UNOFF-NOTES/BSDI2.0 says to
set it to STDARGS.  DBZCFLAGS should have -DMMAP added as noted in recent
versions of the INN FAQ, as well as the msync() invocation.  And, of course,
the paths in this sample config file are insane, but that's a matter of
personal preference.

>>>current Netscape (2.02 at this point) and Mosaic (2.7b4)
>2.02 is NOT Time-bombed and that should ship unless 3.0  RELEASE is available.

I've found 3.0 beta to be slightly less buggy.

>>>A native GUI like SunOS and HP.
>>that works fine for me.  Do you want a huge, buggy, memory-intensive set of
>>layered applications that break the normal resources mechanism, like VUE?

>Point well taken, but BSDI show works on a VUE/Sunview option that
>can be started at the command line instead of going to the GUI immediately.

Huh?  Sunview?  I'm rather skeptical.  The question of whether one starts the
X server and clients from init or from the CLI isn't really relevent.

>BTW, rumour has it that the next release of BSD/OS will have Web sysadmin tools.

Oh boy.  I'll have to run their apache and a web browser just to mount a
filesystem?

>Readying a BSDI book for release ...

When it's finally printed and available, will it describe a non-current
version of the OS like almost all Unix books?