Rick,
PUPLinux sounds great!
Does it run on Red Hat?
See ya,
Joe Barr
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:00, Rick A. Hohensee wrote:
> THIS DOES NOT EXIST. I AM NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SUGGESTION.
> THIS DOES NOT EXIST. I AM NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SUGGESTION.
> THIS DOES NOT EXIST. I AM NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SUGGESTION.
>
> I've done some of the harder parts, but I personally am not going to
> saddle them with a unixoid kernel at this point without severe
> provocation. YMMV.
>
> <spastic trombone/banjo/kazoo/forking-penguins fanfare>
>
>
>
> PUPLinux
>
> Personable UniProcessor Linux
>
> 1.2.14 umbilical snip version
>
> FEATURISMING...
>
> * based on Linux 1.2.13
> * ignores POSIX. Aims to further the unix tradition of innovation,
> in conjunction with innovations from Forth, Amiga, and
> <your name here>.
> * converted entirely to the osimplay meta-assembler
> o Therefor builds, if necessary, with nothing but a
> 32 bit post-Korn shell. No dd even. Includes one.
> o Is also therefor x86-only, and 386-max, at least at
> first, but not nearly to the extent that you think.
> * No SMP ever, guaranteed. Not one ASCII byte.
> * EOL = CR,LF
> * dyndufs, appropriate ls included, shows the du of a dir, not the
> less-than-useless 1970 legacy noise the
> innocent user sees now for a dir's "size"
> o block sizes from one byte to Sagans in powers of 2
> * Forth or similar in kernelspace (H3sm and/or Tiny OpenBoot)
> * hard realtime service on NMI
> * More stateful vt's; per-vt text modes, fonts, etc.
> * Dotted Standard File Hierarchy support, DSFH
> * No modules
> * probably no threads, but I'm not sure.
> * Plan-9-style CPU-based "includes" structure, to the extent
> that that pertains to a meta-assembler
> * (back-port?) full UTF-8 support
> * stdaux, FD 3, secondary input for all executables
> * latched (level-triggered) interrupts
> * Forth interpreter syscall(s) on INT 0x81
>
> "Doc, GUIs aren't putting Linux on the desktop."
> "Of course not. The GUI didn't put Windows on "the client". Try the above,
> and call me in the warm new glorious light of morning."
>
> Rick Hohensee
> parts of the above are in
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim read ./ABOUT
>
> My apologies to the perps if there's a real "PUPLinux" somewhere.
> You didn't know penguins had umbilical cords, did you? Ain't l-k grand?
>
>
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