From: fh8n@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Frank Houston) Subject: SLS is awesome and getting larger Date: 26 Aug 1992 12:51:43 GMT
Hello linux hackers
I have just finished installing the SLS distribution of linux
over the weekend. Congratulation to linus and the authors
of sls. You guys give hackers a good name. The points is
SLS is now 15 disk and growing to morw than 20. Time to
go CDROM. On that subject DAK sells a CDROM with controller
for $199. I alspo received a compuadd catalog on Aug 20
that has a Cdrom and card for $169. So the price isn't
as steep. I know that there is a SCSI cdrom driver in development
, but they seem a lot more expensive.
$150 for the Adaptec board supported.
$250 for the cheapest scsi cdrom.
How about the linus community agree upon one of the minimaly
priced cdrom unix about and create drivers it. This would
create a defacto common linux cdrom drive.
I have just started playing with linux, maybe one I look
at the code dor the current SCSI cdrom driver I can consider
trying to make my own. But I know writing unix device drivers
is not for the fain of hear :)
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