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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Monthly Reminder: 386bsd news archive via ftp Date: 3 Aug 1993 19:30:38 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <23mecu$6rj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <9307311515.AA14852@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> <CB6rxK.4Ms@sybase.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CB6rxK.4Ms@sybase.com>, Mark Warren <mwarren@cedar.sybase.com> wrote: > > - Has there ever been an "Official" Patchkit, and what would make it > different from an "Unofficial" Patchkit? An Official one would have been made by Bill, not the users. Since Bill does not seem interested in providing support, but introducing new/different useful (?) features instead of supporting the user base, I doubt that you will ever see an Official Patchkit. (telephone conversations with the Jolitz seem to echo this as well) > - Will there soon be a 386bsd-0.2, and will it be "Official"? If 0.2 is ever released, it will be Official in the sense that it will be from Bill. However, if you are interested in being able to see what has been done, and what is going on, and the ability to speak with the developers, consider using NetBSD. There will be another system on the market, called FreeBSD which is basically the next generation of the patchkit, which was created by all of the old patchkit co-ordinators, plus a lot of new and talented folks. This release is basically an upgraded utilities plus some very well tested kernel patches plus lots of cleanup. Among other things, it includes gcc2, which can compile EVERYTHING, and almost all of the old utilities have been upgraded. (I still use gcc1 because it's faster and doesn't use as much memory, but you can do whatever you wish). It is not available yet, but it is getting very close. You will know when it's released. :-) Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we weren't able to put in place the new patchkit mechanism for this release, but we are hoping to get it into place sometime soon. Hope this helps, Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)