KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]

Weekly Summary

Week Commencing: 15th May 1999

Number: 021

Mailing List: kosh-general

In the mailing list this week, the following items were discussed. Please do
not email the scribe regarding any of these topics, it is not his job to answer
these questions but merely to report  the topics of conversation. If you have
any queries about this summary, please email ben@kosh.net, stating the Summary
Number, and Mailing List Name, and he will try to answer your queries.


Before I start this summary it is probably worth noting that despite the
shorter length of summaries of the General List these days it does not mean
that KOSH is disappearing. A lot of traffic on particular issues has moved to
other KOSH lists and the KOSH Working Groups are doing exactly that...working.

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a)

Subject: Open KOSH

Summary of debate: The KOSH project could develop an "open policy" in which we
                   show all interested people the relative merits of the system
                   and its disadvantages. At shows this could be done by
                   demonstrating KOSH boxes next to Windows, MacOS, AmigaOS,
                   Linux etc showing the strengths and weaknesses of each. The
                   conclusion of such demonstrations would (hopefully) be that
                   KOSH is the best system, but if it is weak in any area we
                   should be honest about this.

                   This attitude amongst KOSH would mean that we would not
                   gloss over any flaws in KOSH and would actively deal with
                   them in updates.


b)

Subject: Realtime Operating Systems

Summary of debate: A couple of RTOS sites are:
                   http://www.oarcorp.com (68k and PPC support, Ada95
                   crosscompiler) and
                   http://www.cygnus/com/ecos/ (PPC support, NT4 and Linux
                   development tools).


c)

Subject: Experience of Windows 2000 beta v3

Summary of debate: Someone has posted their experience of the above OS which
                   could be useful for us from a research point of view; see:
                   http://www.welkin.freeserve.co.uk/win2000/


d)

Subject: KOSH Web Site (mirror) is back

Summary of debate: The site is back at
                   http://www.reading.ac.uk/~ssu97gw/kosh/index.html
                   This is a mirror and "unofficial" - The main KOSH URL of
                   http://www.kosh.net remains but may or may not have been
                   updated by the time you read this.


e)

Subject: Articles for KOSH wanted

Summary of debate: Fleecy and Greg Webb have both asked anyone with any
                   interesting ideas that they have gathered for KOSH to turn
                   them into articles (length up to the writer). These can be
                   posted on the KOSH mirror site (URL under "d" above). Email
                   greg@gpwebb.freeserve.co.uk if you need any more
                   information.