Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> A New Open Source Model?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| While we aren't going to see a joining of distros, we are seeing a new
>| open source cooperative model. For myself, I think this is more
>| significant. I don't believe this model will catch on with the
>| big players such as Red Hat, openSUSE, or Mandriva, but perhaps it
>| should. It's amazing the strides made in Linux and open source
>| software development the last 5 years, but where would we be if
>| this model were used more? We may never know the full extent of the
>| possibilities, but we will see how two competing distros can work
>| together for the benefit of both and their community of users. This
>| level of humility and altruism is rare in today's world and I hope
>| everyone will take a moment to note the event. Perhaps, this new
>| cooperative agreement could be the spark of a whole new open
>| source paradigm.
> `----
>
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070319#review
>
> Another forgotten 'distro':
>
> MINIX: what is it, and why is it still relevant?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| MINIX, as originated by Andy Tanenbaum, is an operating system that
>| has its roots and heart in academia as a tool that teaches you how
>| kernels really should work. Recently, however, with the advent of
>| version three of this rock solid OS, the focus is on making a
>| production ripe embedded distribution.
> `----
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/minix
Someone at work suggested recently that minix could be a good choice for
internal networking engines for things like PBB-TE usage, but at the
time, I indicated that as it wasn't really under constant development
like Linux it probably wasn't the best choice. Perhaps that is
changing? Certainly, Linux is awfully big, now, so a really lean and
mean OS could be useful for certain kinds of appliance.
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