Re: Package authentication proposal
Ian Jackson writes:
>
> *chuckle*. The real problem is that an XT would end up running DOS or
> something similar, and this would (a) make us dependent on a non-free
> operating system for our internal management, which is somewhat
> unsound philosophically, but more importantly it would (b) make it
> much harder to write the code that would have to run on the secure
> box.
Well, I have heard of something called FreeDos. I don't know any details,
yet. Been meaning to check it out wrt the XT's. And after the OS, there's
plenty of free stuff.
Hmm.. wonder how the ELKS project is going ;)
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