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 In article <VLADIMIR.92Feb4203418@ronnie.Eng.Sun.COM> vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir Ivanovic) writes:
 >>>>>> On 4 Feb 92 20:57:40 GMT, fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) said:
 >fnf> If PH was not granted a monopoly on distribution, it would have been
 >fnf> possible for all of the interested minix hackers to organize and set
 >
 >I don't get it.  What's preventing people from doing this?  The quoted
 >paragraph doesn't give any reasons for its assertions.
 
 My understanding is that PH is the only one that is allowed to distribute
 a complete minix distribution.  All others are restricted to the "2 copy
 limit" or by the educational provision for classroom use.
 
 There is apparently no place where I can send a check for $50 - $150 and
 receive a complete, ready to install, copy of an enhanced minix that has
 most of the common enhancements that are floating around as diff kits,
 already installed and tested.  When I run into a problem, I can't post
 a message saying that eminix version 15.4 does mumble-foo when it should
 do mumble-bar, and expect other people to be easily able to reproduce the
 problem.  Except for people that are running strictly vanilla minix as
 received from PH, I doubt that there are any two minix sites anywhere
 in the world, that are not directly in touch with each other, that are
 running the same set of binaries.  This is bug heaven, and a maintenance
 nightmare.
 
 If I'm wrong, and there is such a place to get a full 32 bit minix with
 VM, hardware supported memory protection, and other assorted enhancements
 such as GNU gcc, g++, emacs, etc, with full sources and binaries for the
 entire system, preferably for an Amiga 3000, then please tell me.  Directions
 that go "well first order minix X.X from PH, and then apply patch kit
 xxx from ftp site yyy and patch kit zzz from ftp site kkk, and write to
 John Doe for his patch kit www, and pick up patch kit ddd from the
 minix usenet archives" will be cheerfully ignored.
 
 -Fred
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