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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Subject: Re: Some Sample Projects for 386BSD
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Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 10:06:41 GMT
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In article <9303090526.AA07265@fubar.cs.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu writes:
>This is an *unofficial* request for warm bodies.

:-)

>I spent some time talking with Bill a couple weekends ago, and since I'm
>no longer in the patchkit co-ordination business, I thought it would be
>nice to know some short-term projects that I could do when I get some
>free time.  (Short term means I can spend some time here and there,
>which hopefully wouldn't require constant watching, unlike patchkit
>stuff)

That's great!  Here's what I'd very much like to see done soon from your list:

>2) Clean up of existing device driver's, and add missing functionality. 

Yes!  The FD driver is a good example.  Another thing I really miss is the
ability to mount a CD ROM in rock ridge format.  I think I read in a news 
article a few weeks or months ago that work was progressing on rock ridge,
but it seems that it isn't finished yet.

>3) Unified releases.

Oh my god yes yes yes!  :-)
In good tradition, call it 386bsd 0.1new!

I dream of a src02 distribution which is just src01+patchkit 0.2.2 and a 
bin02 which is just src02 compiled.

>5) Update and clean up man pages.

Very good idea.  I had asked some two weeks ago if anyone has already gotten
Tom Christiansen's perl rewrite of man to work.  Since I received no reply, I
guess I will have to do it.  For that, I will need the original man pages, not
those .0 abominations.  My goal is to have all *roff input files in 
/usr/man/manx/xxx.z [note the lower case z there :-)] and have catted files
accumulate in /usr/man/catx/xxx.z on first use.  They could then be cleaned out
on a regular basis through, for example, a crontab entry.

>8) Projects that *YOU* think are important.

I would like to see the yp clone folded into the official 386bsd distribution,
at the moment I only need client functionality, but others might want a NIS
server too.


And finally my pet problem: more than 16 MB of RAM with Adaptec DMA! :-)

>If you are interested in any/all of these projects, send me or Jordan
>(or both) some email, and maybe we can help get some of this organised
>and get 0.1.X to be a really slick system.

I post this because I can't do much work on any of these projects [I'm still
learning to find my way around 386bsd after all], and I wanted to share my
views, and I'd like to see what others think.

-- Volker
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