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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Excuse me? [ was Re: Latest release of 386bsd ]
In-Reply-To: gary@dragon.dsh.org's message of Thu, 9 Sep 1993 16: 40:11 GMT
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 21:22:49 GMT
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>I'm sorry -- we've had a death in the family and we're not much available
>right now. The 0.2 update can be obtained by sending a SASE mailer and
>an error free high-density floppy to: Dr. Dobbs Journal, Tiny 386BSD,
>411 Borel Avenue, San Mateo, CA. 94402 USA. There is no charge for the
>service, but if you'd like to send a dollar or more for the kids helped by
>the Children's Support League (a local charity), it would be most kind. New
>announcements will be in DDJ and the compuserve DDJ forum (go ddj).
My sincere sympathies, of course (any differences I may have with the
Jolitzen stop when it comes to loses of this sort), though I can't
help but wonder at this "0.2 update". How much can you conceivably
update on a floppy? It looks to me like some sort of reduced
functionality kernel ("tiny 386bsd") configured to run off a floppy,
which is hardly what most people had in mind for the 0.2 release!
I can't see what use at all this would be. I'm not arguing with the
practice, since it's certainly generous to be doing free distributions
like this, I'm merely arguing the utility (or lack thereof) of such a
release and perhaps wondering if it isn't more of a stalling tactic
than anything else.
Jordan
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Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie