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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Wish list... Anyone working on these ?
Message-ID: <1992Aug11.054724.26494@tfs.com>
Date: 11 Aug 92 05:47:24 GMT
References: <peter.713457194@hilly>
Distribution: comp
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
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In article <peter.713457194@hilly> peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) writes:
>Here is a list of things I would *love* to see in 386BSD, and would like to
>help with any of them - but I don't want to duplicate work:
>
>* Shared Libraries
> I bought a laptop, and until I get a 200Mb drive (soon) X
> is an impossibilty until shared libs are working. I have
> been playing with dld-3.2.3 and it works on 0.1, but this
> is entirely application level.
>
>* Seperated SCSI drivers
> Make life easy to add new SCSI controllers, and maybe support
> LUN's etc.
Yes I am working on this:
I have working code, on two operating systems but an presently
suspended on my 386bsd efforts by a burst of extra work.
Other people have my code as well and some of them may beat
me to it.
>
>* Multiport (ala FAS) serial drivers for simple multiport cards
>
>* FDISK and associated partioning utilities that run from BSD
> not-DOS.
I am looking at the MACH stuff which is re-distributable.
>
>I hope this doesn't sound like too much whinging, as the system is
>amazingly stable for version 0.1, and if someone is already working
>on any of these then all the better, but I would like to help with
>any of the above (and also porting dp - dial up ppp) to 386BSD.
>
>Cheers all,
>--
>Peter Galbavy
>Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
>Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
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