We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.1.8 stable release. The major
features of this release are:
* New package management infrastructure: pkgsrc and pkgin
* Unix Domain Socket support
* Multiboot support
* Ext2 filesystem support
* ACPI driver
* Full APIC mode including IO APICs
* Experimental AHCI support
To find out more about this release, please see
http://wiki.minix3.org/en/MinixReleases. You can grab the ISO image
from the download page: http://www.minix3.org/download.
We would like to thank our Google Summer of Code students for their hard
work this summer. Thanks also to Google for generously supporting our
students while they hacked on MINIX. We are also grateful to the MINIX
community for all your contributions and feedback. We hope you enjoy the
new release.
Arun
Have you discovered "make fetch-list | sh" yet?
I've done the initial setup and bootstrap of pkgsrc enough times now that it doesn't feel too excruciating to me any more. :) Maybe I'm numb to the pain??? :D But if something could be done to simplify it, of course that would be great.
Having a pkgsrc man page would be a better idea, I think, than putting that info in a login message.
I've yet to try 3.1.8, so I can't comment much on specifics...
Tim
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Tim Larson
App Admin, Intercall Production Services
This is mentioned in the Pkgsrc Guide.
> > Having a pkgsrc man page would be a better idea, I think, than
> putting that info in a login message.
>
> I agree with that idea! Except I think a small starting message
> would
> be good, like the Packman message in earlier versions.
Okay, I see. I was thinking you wanted a relatively expansive introduction as login text. If you were suggesting something like "Check out our new packaging framework, pkgsrc. See its man page for details." as a login message, then I completely agree that's a good idea, with Minix evolving so fast.
>
> I agree with that idea! Except I think a small starting message would
> be good, like the Packman message in earlier versions.
The motd mentions how to use pkgin. You should see it when you log in.
Best,
Arun
Well, we don't think normal users should have to use pkgsrc. We view
pkgsrc as a tool for those who want to develop packages. If interested
users want to help create packages (which would be great), they can
refer to the wiki for documentation.
Best,
Arun