Re: 8086/88 80286 ||| 80386 80486 Pentium ...

2000-03-02 Thread Matthew London
Hi, Just thought I'd add my 2-penneth worth to this (even if it is highly off topic) On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Shadow Daemon wrote: Actually, I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on a 486/8Mb. The trick was to do a NFS install, and forget about the installation program the moment the

elkscmd snapshot 2000-03-02 available now

2000-03-02 Thread Alistair Riddoch
. ftp://ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/elks/elkscmd/elkscmd-2302.tar.gz ftp://linux.mit.edu/pub/ELKS/elkscmd/elkscmd-2302.tar.gz Here is a quick list of what is changed in this release:- Added support for building a tiny filesystem for use in the SIBO port

Does someone else work on ELKS and Minix at the same time?

2000-03-02 Thread ghost
I want to know about some ELKS and Minix possibilities on net. Does anybody knows something about ppp in Minix (especialy for 286), and some posibilites to do that on ELKS? I prefere ELKS, but Minix had network now!(but Minix is too insecure ( I want to compile ssh for Minix and that is priority,

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-03-02 Thread ghost
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Juanjo Marin wrote IƱaki, I am looking for a simple OS to use teaching (modifying the kernel) and despite simplicity is very important, I'd like to be possible to load pre-compiled programs and to have a file system in hard disk. I think that Minix may be a better

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-03-02 Thread Juanjo Marin
I am a beginer with Minix and ELKS, but I prefered ELKS (not MINIX) first because Minixs' bad development. I actually mean that Minix's developers don't work so hard on Minix. At the first time, I asced Al about somethin, and I recived answers very fast, on Minix distribution I asked some