From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 3:57:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h013.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FC1637B406 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 20721 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2001 03:57:51 -0700 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.220) with SMTP; 12 Jul 2001 03:57:51 -0700 X-Sent: 12 Jul 2001 10:57:51 GMT Reply-To: From: "Otter" To: "m unnikrishnan" , Subject: RE: Free BSD OS required Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:06:29 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <000601c10abe$b951e2e0$eb8209ca@rukmini> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Follow the link to see how you can get magnanimous FreeBSD operating system: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html -Otter -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of m unnikrishnan Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:03 AM To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Free BSD OS required Respected Sir/Madam I am a student of the Undergraduate Electronics Engineering course at the University of Pune (India). As part of the course we are required to implement a project to be completed during the final year(Graduation) . For this purpose we are working on a hardware and software related problem that will essentially focus on creating a device driver framework to output device drivers over a variety of interfaces like PCI, USB, ESA, EISA, IDE etc. on the following operating systems... 1) LINUX 2) Free BSD 3) Solaris 8 This will be an effort to integrate driver development and deployment across the UNIX's and standardise driver development at the same time to keep it as simple as possible. The framework will incorporate scripting and/or GUI based frontends and will hence aim at simplicity and functionality. The end result will be released as an Open Source product probably under the GNU Public Licence wherein all of the programmers can contribute and enhance the utility and robustness of the project. Free BSD is a true manifestation of the robustness and solidity of the UNIX family and is a widely accepted industry standard, so we are keen on including Free BSD diver development support in our target framework. For this purpose we would require to take a look at the driver model, kernel documentation and source code of the Free BSD OS. We would therefore like to appeal to the magnanimity of Berkeley Software Distribution and request from you a copy of the Free BSD OS, it's binaries, source code and documentation. Due to the financial constraints on our side( we are basically students) we are unable to purchase a commercial distribution of Free BSD despite wanting to desparately. We would be obliged by this grand gesture. We would also like to reassure you that there will be no misuse of your magnanimity for commercial gain. Thanking you in anticipation of a quick and favourable reply yours faithfully Mahesh K Unnikrishnan Address: Flat # 10, Building # 19, Sakal Nagar, Baner Road, City: Pune Pin code: 411007 State: Maharashtra INDIA Phone #: (020) 5653962 Email: mahesh_k_u@yahoo.com rukmini@ip.eth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message