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Re: linuxbin in frequently used lockers ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Feb 9 19:24:22 1994
To: cheeky@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 09 Feb 94 13:11:01 -0500.
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 94 19:24:05 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Since the number of linux users are increasing steadily, is there a
> possibility of compiling the programs in most of the commonly used
> lockers for for linux and have a linuxbin ? Since most of the vax
> will be gone soon, so I guess linuxbins can simply replace the space
> taken up by the vaxbins. What problems would there be with third
> party software ? Liscensing issues ? Any other resons against
> having a linuxbin ?
The main reason is that AFS is not viable for accessing binaries.
vaxbin will be around for a while to come. Vaxen won't be desupported
for a while. A lot of lockers still have rtbin directories.
Third-party software is usually not available for Linux. COFF and ELF
support may change this, but not just now.
At some point, we'd like to have an NFS server set up to serve Linux
binaries and other Linux-related things, but we don't have the
resources for it yet.
--GBH
