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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!Sirius.dfn.de!olymp!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: Some Sample Projects for 386BSD Message-ID: <1993Mar11.100641.28202@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <9303090526.AA07265@fubar.cs.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 10:06:41 GMT Lines: 62 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de Angewandte Mathematik Phone: +49 228 73 3427 (Bonn, Germany)