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[will_senn]

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Will Senn <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: fdl
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Package: MFS - Minix from Scratch
System name: mfs
Type: non-GNU

Description:
MFS - Minix From Scratch

This project is intended to create a document describing the process of 
building a complete, though minimal Minix system from scratch. Minix is a 
microkernel unix clone that was created
to allow universities to teach unix system fundamentals at a
time when ATT refused to allow their code to be taught in
University. It began a few years before Linus Torvalds
started on Linux - some would say that Minix inspired Linux.
Linus wanted to take his OS into a production environment,
whereas Andrew chose to keep the OS small and learnable. Originally, there was 
a more restrictive license, but that has since been corrected - 
http://minix1.hampshire.edu/LICENSE.html.

There will be a number of other resources that will also
come out of the development of the primary document. I plan
on creating a series of FAQs, HOWTOs, and a Wiki for
collaboration on the document.

The project is the product of:

1. My own interest in Minix - revived in light of Andrew
Tanenbaum's response to the controversial 'Brown Book'
questioning the true authorship of Linux (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/) and 
my rereading of
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, 2ed by Andrew
Tanenbaum and Albert Woodhull

2. Feedback received in comp.os.minix that was positive
regarding creation of the project and some willing volunteers

3. The success of Linux From Scratch, a similar project that
is Linux based - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org.

4. The need for an alternative to Linux for small scale OS
educational projects - Minix source is about 11MB total
uncompressed, Linux is 176 MB

The 'document' referred to as the primary document will be a
number of documents - HTML, PDF, Text, PS, etc and will be
extensively annotated, hyperlinked and will include indices,
references, and resources -  a very rich document, if you will.

Additionally, there will be shell scripts, binaries and possibly tarballs - all 
generated using open source tools - guaranteed, that will aide in the 
development of the MFS system.

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On the explicit side of the house:
1. There is currently no software developed (other than Minix, which is not the 
product of the project and is freely available).
2. The document is to be developed collaboratively and does not yet exist, in 
anything other than concept and resides in its author's brain (mine).
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Please consider my projet for inclusion at savannah, I think that it would 
benefit both my project and savannah.

Thanks,

will

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