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   Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus   
   a desperate disease requires a dangerous   
   05 Aug 17 03:43:38   
   
   Hey Nancy!   
      
    NB> Yeah... such a bummer...   
      
   I am suspicous that is the real reason for the raspberry pi 3 purchase,   
   especially the current strategy of enabling a custom built OS for it.    
   Speaking of which it is currently chewing on building networking packages as   
   we speak.  Here is a cut n' paste from the main C library which is as current   
   as current can get since this version is only a couple days old;   
      
   ----- ye olde cut n' paste starts   
   root@armando:/mnt/archives/medevil/scripts# /lib/libc.so.6   
   GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.26, by Roland McGrath et al.   
   Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   
   This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.   
   There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A   
   PARTICULAR PURPOSE.   
   Compiled by GNU CC version 7.1.1 20170802.   
   Available extensions:   
           crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others   
           GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson   
           Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al   
           BIND-8.2.3-T5B   
   libc ABIs: UNIQUE   
   For bug reporting instructions, please see:   
   .   
   ----- ye olde cut n' paste ends   
      
   Note the "GNU CC version 7.1.1 20170802" which is a release candidate for   
   gcc-7.2 which should be loose and full of juice by sometime next week.  I am   
   hoping by then the raspi3 will be using the above on it's root file system and   
   that it will be sending it's own fidonet messages from there.  So far it is   
   looking great despite the many snags encoutered along the way.  I persisted.   
      
    NB> That sounds a bit ambitious... but hopefully it works all as hoped   
    NB> for... :)   
      
   The above cut n' paste demonstrates that there is much reality in the latest   
   ambition.   
      
   I do good work.  :-)   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Future cybertoasts of note:   
       2018-01-01 is  149 days from now and falls on a Monday.   
       2024-11-05 is 2649 days from now and falls on a Tuesday.   
   --- GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu)   
    * Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.250)   

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