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  *MINT zfkirone <zfkirone@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 21:24 +0200

#48953 — *MINT

*What is SpareMiNT?*
SpareMiNT is FreeMiNT based on the Redhat Package Manager (rpm). 
FreeMiNT is a multitasking, multi-user, Un*x like operating system for 
the Atari 680x0 Computers Based on the MultiTOS/MiNT sources from Atari 
Computer Corp.

*What is MiNT?*
Back in 1990 a Canadian programmer named Eric Smith had released the 
first version of a program called MiNT, which was a recursive acronym 
for "MiNT Is Not TOS". Eric had been working on a GNU C library for the 
ST, and porting GNU software. It soon turned out that porting software 
originally written for Unix to TOS was difficult since TOS lacked many 
of the features of Unix. It then occured to him that it might be easier 
to add the missing features to TOS rather than patching any Unix program 
that he wanted to port, and so MiNT was born.

in soldoni, mi par di capire, FreeMINT è la roba minimale, 
kernel+GUI(XaAES); SpareMINT una distro più corposa, con pacchetti RPM 
derivati dal mondo unix; seguono CrippleMINT (girerebbe su 1 solo 
floppy), EasyMINT (basato su SpareMINT e "fortemente consigliato"), 
Gentoo (per i forti di cuore :D )

requisiti, dalla wiki: minimo 4MB ma consigliati 14; HDD non richiesto 
ma caldamente consigliato;

il tutto ha un che di lento, le cose più recenti sono datate anni 
addietro, quindi non so quanto siano vivi; cmq, c'è parecchio da 
studiare, per chi lo volesse :)

qualche link:

http://sparemint.atariforge.net/sparemint/index.html

http://wiki.sparemint.org/

http://atari.st-katharina-apotheke.de/home.php?lang=en&headline=EasyMiNT&texte=easymint

https://freemint.github.io/

http://www.atariforge.org/gf/

CYA

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