🚀 go-pugleaf

> Not having heard anything after the initial flurry of interest, I've
> sort of come to the conclusion that development on Minix has ground
> to a halt ... people seem either blase' or disinterested.

I can't speak for anyone else but I've pretty much lost interest.  I
have a somewhat limited amount of time to spend on my pc532 and would
like to spend that time on productive endeavors that are of interest
to me.  Redoing work already done by others doesn't fit the bill.

For example, when the ksh clone was posted I thought, "great!"  But
after wasting a few hours I came to realize that I also need ESTDIO to
get ksh working.  So, the next day I grudgingly went on a scavenger
hunt to find this piece, and eventually got it on my machine.  Then I
tried to build it and found I needed to fiddle a bit.  At that point I
gave up, partly lack of time, partly lack of interest.

Yes, I'd like to have ksh.  Yes, I understand Minix isn't a nicely
packaged system like a MacIntoy, and that the availability of the
whole thing in source form is an attraction.  But I'd rather not be
*forced* into this mold -- give me binaries or at least sources that
will build with little more than a few, well documented config
changes.  Then, rather than reinventing the wheel, I can spend my
time on other, more useful pursuits, like working on uucp or mail or
networking.

For now, my pc532 sits idle, mostly waiting for something to shake
loose on the Unix front, while I spend my time more productively.

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