[ILUG-Social] BBC _ Was(Re: chilli - tonight)

[Ken Guest]

On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 13:57, Niall Walsh wrote:
> http://www.lnx-bbc.org provides a link to 
> ftp://ftp.blackstar.co.uk/pub/ILUG/ where there are BBC ISOs the latest 
> of which is 11/11/00
> 
> http://linux.ie/download/ilug_bbc relates to a BBC built on version 1.2 
> of the Linuxcare BBC (which reached 1.6 before the split and is now 1.618).

the ILUG_BBC.iso files on both blackstar and linux.ie are the one and
the same.
 
> I have seen from http://www.lnx-bbc.org/news.html that Niall did some 
> work back in June for the lnx-bbc
> 
> What I am wondering is what has happened this?   Where are the sources 
> even to the 1.2 version (do they exist or where all changes in ascii 
> files and therefore you can diff it out)?

I don't know - you may be better off to ask Niall.

> I personally want to get a nice BBC that can get online in Ireland (for 
> most cases, winmodems are winmodems (though I have had a lot of joy with 
> the Lucent ones)) and has a decent mozilla.   I will work with 
> anyone/anything to get there, but it seems like I should be 
> collaborating with the ILUG effort for some things and the lnx-bbc for 
> others (ILUG would receive anything accepted whenever they resync to the 
> upstream).   Is this a dead duck to the ILUG now?

Nope - this duck is alive and quacking.


k.