From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 28 15:20:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA02294 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 15:20:28 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA02272 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 15:20:20 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA28397 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:20:16 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA17081 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:20:16 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA24478 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:48:59 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508282148.XAA24478@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: postmaster@yggdrasil.com: Yggdrasil Product Information To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:48:57 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3415.809611050@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 04:57:30 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2933 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I find the fanfare surrounding the "buildable source tree!" to be > somewhat amusing, ... :-) > o FULLY BUILDABLE SOURCE TREE. Rebuild the whole system with > "cd /usr/src ; make install-clean". Use the new "whence" > command find source code for a file. For example: > > % whence csh > /bin/csh is actually /usr/bin/tcsh > /usr/bin/tcsh: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC) > /usr/bin/tcsh installed from /usr/src/system/tcsh-6.05/tcsh Basically what our old `whereis' command did. I don't like the extra blubber above (e.g. running file(1) on the executable), but i really loved to have a command that was pointing at the location of the source and man page as well as the binary. Are there any reasons to stick with the crippled 4.4 version? > o HYBRID INSTALLATION. Any software not found on your hard > disk is run from the CDROM if the CD is mounted. Useful for > infrequently used programs or for trying out software before > deciding whether or not to install it. set path = ($path /cdrom/...) > o TRANSPARENT COMPRESSION. CD looks like a 1GB+ filesystem. There have been some volunteers here, but apparently nobody to really make it... > All binaries, including the entire X window system, the > kernel, the C compiler, and emacs compiled with "-O2" in > QMAGIC format. I hope they didn't forget -fno-strenght-reduce. ;) > Disk: IDE, RLL, MFM, ESDI, SCSI with supported SCSI controller. > Other disks accessible through DOS callbacks. Configurations > range from 10 megabytes to 1 gigabyte of disk. All binaries ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ??? > Tape: SCSI tape with supported SCSI controller. Experimental (i.e., > unsupported) driver for floppy tape. Hmm, they don't trust the ft driver, either. Interesting. I believed it were in a better shape in Linux. > HOW TO GET A FREE COPY > > Yggdrasil is greatly indebted to the many free software > developers whose efforts have made this release possible. As a token > of our appreciation, any author of any software or documentation in > Plug-and-Play Linux can get a free copy. Hmm, one should see if they've accidentally took something from us. This would give us a free copy. :--) slackware, man mount(8): ... Options -u update mount... ... BUGS The -u and -o synchronous options are not yet supported. ... (Man page Copyright: The Regents of the UCB.) Perhaps they would give the Regents a free copy? Btw., it took me way long to find that the update mount command was /etc/remount/mount -w -n -o remount /dev/hda1 / :-I -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)