Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:10:15 -0400 From: Bush Doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MINIX utilities Message-ID: <20000414101015.A45686@goku.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004140022260.20413-100000@mx.webgiro.com>; from abial@webgiro.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:35:38AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004140022260.20413-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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Out of da blue Andrzej Bialecki aka (abial@webgiro.com) said: > Hi, > > You've seen probably the announcement that the license for Minix has been > changed to BSD. I've had for a long time a couple of utilities ported from > Minix to FreeBSD, among others: > > * mostly complete Bourne shell. Here's the size for a static binary: > # size sh > text data bss dec hex filename > 47551 1632 3376 52559 cd4f sh > > * mined - Minix editor. Nice and small full-screen editor. The keybindings > are plain crazy, but easily changeable. Supports regex, search and replace > and other features. > # size mined > text data bss dec hex filename > 35779 1224 7808 44811 af0b mined > > * others: ftpd, telnetd > > Generally speaking, porting this stuff is quite easy, but I didn't have > enough motivation to do it with other utilities. > > Now, my question is: should they go to ports, or under tinyware? Mined and > msh had been there already once upon a time, but then removed due to > incompatible old license. > > Any thoughts? Whatever the consensus, I'd like to help in porting the utilities. Minix took me a long way in learning about operating systems ;-) Ran it first on a 286 I did. > > Andrzej Bialecki > > // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // ------------------------------------------------------------------- > // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- > // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- > > > #;^) -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. bush doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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