The availablilty, then disappearance, then pending availability of the "UNIX
Tools & Toys" web page brings to mind a few thoughts I keep having about
open source and USS.
1) I really appreaciated the website and redbook because it helped
me greatly to get a handle on porting tools to USS.
2) Its disappearance forced me to research and experiment more with
porting to USS since a number of tools at the website really are very
valuable.
3) The biggest thing that repeatedly struck me, though, was the
static nature of the website's tools. (And this is NOT
knock against anyone at IBM. As I said in #1, I greatly appreciated
the site.) I also work with the Linux world and
and watch frequent notices and then frequent updates for various
tools (Samba for example is at what? 2.2.7a?). Would it not be nice to
have some website and process by which the tools were more current? How
this would be done, not sure. Have a place in the site for us to
stick more current ports?
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Stiert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory... unmasked
Hi Folks:
I hate to ruin the intrigue of a good conspiracy theory :-) ....
but the packages should be back online by the end of the day
Wednesday.
Feel free to contact me if you have don't find
what you're looking for after that time.
regards,
Steve
Tools and Toys Website Maintainer
