Rick,

PUPLinux sounds great!

Does it run on Red Hat?

See ya,
Joe Barr




On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:00, Rick A. Hohensee wrote:
> THIS DOES NOT EXIST. I AM NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SUGGESTION.
> THIS DOES NOT EXIST. I AM NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SUGGESTION.
> THIS DOES NOT EXIST. I AM NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SUGGESTION.
> 
> I've done some of the harder parts, but I personally am not going to
> saddle them with a unixoid kernel at this point without severe
> provocation. YMMV.
> 
> <spastic trombone/banjo/kazoo/forking-penguins fanfare>
> 
> 
> 
>                           PUPLinux
> 
>                 Personable UniProcessor Linux
> 
>                 1.2.14 umbilical snip version
> 
> FEATURISMING...
> 
>         * based on Linux 1.2.13
>         * ignores POSIX. Aims to further the unix tradition of innovation,
>                 in conjunction with innovations from Forth, Amiga, and
>                 <your name here>.
>         * converted entirely to the osimplay meta-assembler
>                 o Therefor builds, if necessary, with nothing but a
>                         32 bit post-Korn shell. No dd even. Includes one.
>                 o Is also therefor x86-only, and 386-max, at least at
>                         first, but not nearly to the extent that you think.
>         * No SMP ever, guaranteed. Not one ASCII byte.
>         * EOL = CR,LF
>         * dyndufs, appropriate ls included, shows the du of a dir, not the
>                         less-than-useless 1970 legacy noise the
>                         innocent user sees now for a dir's "size"
>                 o block sizes from one byte to Sagans in powers of 2
>         * Forth or similar in kernelspace (H3sm and/or Tiny OpenBoot)
>         * hard realtime service on NMI
>         * More stateful vt's; per-vt text modes, fonts, etc.
>         * Dotted Standard File Hierarchy support, DSFH
>         * No modules
>         * probably no threads, but I'm not sure.
>         * Plan-9-style CPU-based "includes" structure, to the extent
>                 that that pertains to a meta-assembler
>         * (back-port?) full UTF-8 support
>         * stdaux, FD 3, secondary input for all executables
>         * latched (level-triggered) interrupts
>         * Forth interpreter syscall(s) on INT 0x81
> 
> "Doc, GUIs aren't putting Linux on the desktop."
> "Of course not. The GUI didn't put Windows on "the client". Try the above,
> and call me in the warm new glorious light of morning."
> 
> Rick Hohensee
> parts of the above are in
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim    read  ./ABOUT
> 
> My apologies to the perps if there's a real "PUPLinux" somewhere.
> You didn't know penguins had umbilical cords, did you? Ain't l-k grand?
> 
> 
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