. . . . Today there are great forces battling to structure and control the information superhighway, and it is invaluable that the Internet and Usenet exist as working models. Without them it would be quite easy to argue that the information superhighway should have a top-down hierarchical command and control structure. After all there are numerous working models for that. -- Thomas Truscott, December 1995 in Netizens: An Anthology(http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/)
Name | Purpose |
alt. | The alternative hierarchy. Everybody is allowed to create a newsgroup within this hierarchy. |
biz. | Covers business related stuff. |
comp. | This hierarchy deals with all aspects of computers. |
news. | This hierarchy deals with the news system. |
rec. | Recreational hierarchy. |
sci. | Hierarchy for scientific newsgroups itself. |
soc. | Deals with society in general. |
soc.culture. | Deals with the society's culture. |
soc.culture.austrian | This newsgroup deals with the Austrian society's culture. |
talk. | General talk. |
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.