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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!lukka
- From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
- Subject: Re: Linux Standards Need Improvment
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.035509.136@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <C047q2.EnK@feenix.metronet.com> <1992Dec31.103122.24409@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:55:09 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Dec31.103122.24409@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- >jbh@feenix.metronet.com (Justin B Harvey) writes:
- >>I think that each software package should have a universal standaard
- >>file or directory of the files that are needed to compile or run
- >>the program or util. I find it very confusing to figure out what
- >>to ftp.
- >
- >Are you volunteering to write and maintain the stuff?
- >
- >Well, _somebody_ has to volunteer. It ain't happening by itself.
-
- How about having a group of people getting a directory in an archive
- and setting up a kind of a standard source/binary tree?
-
- 386BSD has a wonderful example of this (try telnetting to ref.tfs.com)
- It's a 386BSD machine on the net, you can actually use it for
- browsing around and seeing what a wonderful thing a PC-*ix is.
- Having something like that for linux would, in my opinion,
- be a BIG win. You can compile a new kernel there (if your machine
- or harddisk is slow, there are plenty of ready-made ones,
- just about all the ported packages are installed there, etc. etc.)
- Now, who with an admin access to the net will volunteer their
- machine for this? If there's a machine, I'm volunteering to be
- an assistant administrator.
-
- TJL
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