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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality Message-ID: <CwyB1n.Lry@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 16:27:22 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu References: <36c2o6$jea@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Sep29.000430.9809@umr.edu> Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 36 dhickman@rocket.cc.umr.edu (David H Hickman ) writes: >ok i guess i am willing to give a honest look at bsd if it can meet these specs. >1. ext2fs support. Well, I don't think anybody is going to port ext2fs for no real reason... >2. fat file system support. BSD has DOS/FAT file system support >3. how good is bsd iBCS2 emulation. It must be able to run WP5.1 and Corel Draw. >4. X must be able to run 1152 900 resolution. ( anything lower sucks) Linux and BSD both use XFree86. >5. GUS support. I believe this is supported >6. proven SLIP support. BSD has only had that running for years... >If there is a distribution of BSD that supports this I will ftp it and try it out. >hell, as i said i will probally try it out on one of my machines. Well, all except for the EXT2FS support. BSD has been using the FFS (and perhaps someday the LFS will be stable). I don't think anybody that has the time and expertise to port EXT2FS has been convinced that it needs porting. >dhickman@umr.edu -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen