Re: Importance of "W" for Mac68/TOS

[Anthony Jacques <jacquesa@zetnet.co.uk>]

> A minimal requirement for such a setup should (IMHO) be a
> MinixFS-partition. 

Maybe. I have a minix partition, and would not want a system without it,
but as it is possible to run MiNTnet without it, could such an installation
have a user selectable option whether they want minix-FS? This might make
it more popular...

> MiNTnet itself doesn't need many binaries then, or
> what? ifconfig, syslogd and pppd is definelately needed, but what
> else?

not a much, AIUI...

> With a GEM-based dialer/pppd-frontend this should be just as easy to
> use as STinG.

Yep.

> A minimal, and easy to install, setup should then include:

> * A tar-archive of a minimalistic MiNTnet-setup, designed for dial-up
>   connections with ppp and nothing else. I.e. no multiuser facilities
>   or other fancy things.

Yes, how many "average-joe" users really need a multi-user system? I
certainly see no need for it.

> * A GEM-based installation-program that initialises the
>   minix-partition, unpacks the archive, asks for things like
>   hostname, nameserver etc. and modifies the proper config-files
>   accordingly.

Yes, quite an important part of the distribution, IMO.

> But what about clients??? All the really good stuff needs MiNTOS
> (pine, mutt, ircII...), without them all we're stuck with is CAB, aFTP
> and various STiK-clients that runs under GlueSTiK. 

Is there any way that pine, ircii etc. can be convinced to run under
Miniwin/Toswin without a big MiNTOS setup? Does anyone feel up to making
a GEM front-end to any of these progs?

Oh, and GlueSTiK should probably be part of the distribution as standard,
so people can run any Stik clients they have...

> > * free AES 4.1 compatible AES... oAESis was getting there, but it is 
> >   still buggy, and since development has stopped...
>
> There's always Atari's own AES 4.1, it's been publicly available for
> quite some time now and I don't think anybody actually cares. It's not
> perfect, but it's a very nice freebie :-)

Yea, as nobody seems to care, sod it. :)

Anthony