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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Minix 1.7 and TCP/IP and X
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:43:58 GMT
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Philip Homburg (philip@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
: In article <41u757$ubg@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com>,
: Steven Ehrbar <FYVW62C@prodigy.com> wrote:
: %>The X windows is purely wishful thinking, but the networking is
: %>what I want to play with.
: %
: %Hmmm... Minix i386 might have a chance of running X Windows... XFree86 
: %might be convertable after a LOT of re-writing. 

: This has been done already, and is part of Minix-386vm. (available from
: ftp.cs.vu.nl:/pub/Minix-386vm)

Warning - 386vm is a patchkit on 1.5 (or was when I installed it).
I know it's under intensive development, so I guess the next version
will be 1.7 based.  It's very, very, nice.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com


: 						Philip Homburg
