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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:50:54 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Louis Epstein <le@put.com>
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Louis Epstein wrote:
> 
> David E. O'Brien (obrien@relay.nuxi.com) wrote:
> : Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote:
> : > Again...is any FreeBSD hacker working on svgatext?
> :
> : Don't believe so.  I think 2 or 3 have tried.. but it is horably unclean,
> : layed, modular code.  It is highly intertwined with Linuxisms.
> 
> So is there a way to get the results for FBSD?

Yeah, write a new text display system from scratch.  Please let us know
when you have your first roughly working implementation for us to test
and we'll let you know whether you're on the right track or not. :-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.