Re: [MiNT] Sparemint Site

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

> http://dev.sparemint.org/documentation.php?showdoc=7

Good job. But I think that words like:

"MiNT has always been a bit disorganized in that there was the debian 
MiNT idea, and now the sparemint idea. It was a royal bitch to get 
everything installed and setup properly and everything... well.. sucked."

are a bit too sharp and not very true either. Before the (never actually 
finished) Debian and Sparemint, there was KGMD, Knarf German MiNT 
Distribution, which actually was quite similar (functionally, that is) 
to something what EasyMiNT is now, and additionally worked very well for 
many starters, including myself. KGMD contained everything a MiNT setup 
of that time might want to contain, including usual /bin tools, two gcc 
compilers, X server, X applications, manual pages, ftp/http/smtp/telnet 
... clients and servers, and so on, everything logically distributed 
among the filesystem.

So it definitely cannot be said that with KGMD "it was a royal bitch to 
get everything installed and setup properly, and everything sucked". 
KGMD was put together in - IIRC - 1995 and worked quite good for a lot 
of people. Well, it wasn't easily upgradable, since it didn't contain a 
package manager. That's the difference. Nevertheless I think that the 
words cited above are a bit unfair to people who worked on MiNT and MiNT 
distributions before SpareMiNT has appeared.

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz, http://draco.atari.org

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