(1) The latest milo sources are milo-1.3.pre2.0.6.tgz. These
include the environment variable fixes for the UDB (no one
complained so they must work).
(2) I've built all new test-images and these all include the
Qlogic fast & wide SCSI driver. Jay Estabrook will issue the
sources in a little while (well, he said that he would
yesterday and he's a man of his words).
(3) Matti Arnio did a lot of work getting Milo built under
Digital Unix, so far as I know that still works provided you
use the correct cross tools (see the Makefile for this).
(4) There's no such thing as free software, someone somewhere
pays for it. However, there is freely available and freely
redistributable software. That's exactly what Milo is - use
it with my blessing.
(5) Proffessionalism in software is absolutely nothing to do
with being paid. I have known bad programmers get paid anywhere
between a lot and nothing. The Linux software effort is the
finest example of co-operative software development bar none.
Right now I'm working on a commercial piece of software that
although well written isn't half as easy to understand as the
Linux kernel nor as portable.
(6) I'm at the Linux Kongress in Berlin Thursday and Friday -
people are welcome to come up pat me on the back and buy me
beers or come and berate me for being part of the evil empire
of paid sofware engineers.
(7) I've recently taken to writing Hiku and here's a bad
example of the 'art':
Blanked screen,
kernel pauses,
programmer too
Have fun,
Dave
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European Semiconductor Applications Digital Equipment Co Ltd.,
Engineering PO Box 121,
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