🚀 go-pugleaf

>Myself, I've pretty much settled on Mach for my future, but
>Minix is still the only game in town for most, so it seems like
>there ought to be SOME interest out there.. What gives?  I don't
>like to see things just fade away like this, yet I don't want to
>jump in and start swinging away if someone else is already hot
>on it.

I agree that Mach and Hurd may be the way to go in the future, but
I'm sure that Minix is not dead yet.  Bruce C and I have been talking
about completing the port of the 1.5 kernel.  I've also 1.6.16 diffs
on my pc532 and will start looking at them.  It may be possible to
upgrade fs and mm without having a full 1.5 kernel.  It would be easier
to have a full 1.5 kernel before attempting 1.6.16.  

I was thinking about one possible problem.  AST has not distributed
any diffs for the library. (/usr/src/lib/*)  The reason (as I remember
it) was that the library is part of the "new ANSI compiler" for the PC.
That made me wonder if the library would be under the much more restrictive
distribution along with the compiler.  ($$$ for source....  $1000 for the
full ack if you are an college/university, $10,000 for any one else.)
I hope not, but I'm afraid that it will happen which makes minix of much
less use.  It might also make it illegal to distribute patches to the
current library to make them look like the new library.  I plan to ask
this question about library source on comp.os.minix.

Well, I'm way off the original topic.  No, I don't see Minix dead 
on the pc532 yet.  Development has "stalled" due to having a relative
stable 1.5h and the ski season and some work on other software.  I
expect to see work resume soon on a 1.5 kernel and on 1.6.16.

--Phil