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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:54:27 , Miro Kropacek <miro.kropacek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I made a similar suggestion a year or so ago. Mint was based on
> > BSD orignally so would it be possibe to take a newer BSD and
> > make the same sort of changes ?
> >
> As already mentioned several times over the years here in ML, (Free)MiNT is
> _not_ based on BSD, it just shares similar concepts, maybe some things like
> socket code is borrowed, but otherwise it's written from scratch.
>

Did Eric Smith really right it from Scratch ?  Or was Freemint
separate from his original work ?

Peter