Re: [MiNT] MiNT - Made By Internet Distribution

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 01:22:54PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> > When I came across rpm - the Redhat Package Manager - I had the strong
> > feeling that this program could improve the situation.  
> 
> Bernd Herbert (spelling?) has made something similar for his
> MiNT '98 package.

I don't know any of MiNT 98.  But first of all MiNT 98 is not free (is
it?) and second, rpm has the big advantage that most of the administration
stuff has already been done by Redhat for Linux.  You can mostly copy at
least the source rpms from the Redhat server and then install (almost)
straight away.

> > My idea was to start some sort of "made by internet" MiNT distribution.
> > This MBI distribution could make the core part of other distributions,
> 
> That starts to sound like my NMD... ;-)

But you have done NMD privately at home and nobody has ever seen it.  If
your harddisk dies again, it's away.  What I am talking of is a project
that can be build up in little steps.  We should start with basic stuff,
like the kernel, MiNTLib, gcc, binutils, sh-utils, textutils, fileutils
and so on.  For the beginning it is perfectly alright to expect from the
user that she/he has already a running MiNT system.

> The question remains, can there be a concensus?

Hopefully.  Just by the way, I think it would be very helpful if the
maintainers of this site have so much trust in their security setup that
they can allow logins from elsewhere for the active members of the
project.

Ciao

Guido
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