From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 12 15:23:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0D437B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.bu.edu (cs.bu.edu [128.197.12.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D14243E70 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evms@cs.bu.edu) Received: from csa.bu.edu (evms@csa [128.197.12.3]) by cs.bu.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7CMNEPq027428 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:23:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evms@localhost) by csa.bu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g7CMNA024870; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200208122223.g7CMNA024870@csa.bu.edu> From: Evan Sarmiento To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: bad news Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. An update to my mother using FreeBSD. She is a teacher and is used to entering her gradebook data into a program called 'Thinkwave', after unsuccessfully getting it working in Wine, I tried introducing her to GNU gradebook (which is absolutely horrible.) So she wants Windows back on it. If anyone has experience with this program through wine I'd be glad to receive any help Thanks, Evan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 12 16:15:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8B437B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (duey.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AED043E3B for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7CNFMsd051650; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:15:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from localhost (cdillon@localhost) by duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g7CNFLbp051647; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:15:21 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: duey.wolves.k12.mo.us: cdillon owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:15:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Evan Sarmiento Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad news In-Reply-To: <200208122223.g7CMNA024870@csa.bu.edu> Message-ID: <20020812180913.A35323-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Evan Sarmiento wrote: > An update to my mother using FreeBSD. She is a teacher and is used > to entering her gradebook data into a program called 'Thinkwave', > after unsuccessfully getting it working in Wine, I tried introducing > her to GNU gradebook (which is absolutely horrible.) So she wants > Windows back on it. If anyone has experience with this program > through wine I'd be glad to receive any help There are some free (and non-free) web-based gradebook systems out there (check freshmeat.net), if you can't host one on a remote server you could simply install Apache on her workstation to host it. I would only allow connections from localhost if you place Apache on the workstation, though. Then again, her school could use a gradebook system other than Thinkwave that doesn't have them by the short and curlies and make them pay through the nose. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 14 17:13: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BC437B400; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.135.138.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619AB43E6E; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@chiark.greenend.org.uk) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 17f8G2-00038D-00 (Debian); Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:12:58 +0100 To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net From: Tony Finch Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <20020814160204.A17855@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <000701c243e5$2cb95370$2000000a@tsndual933> <000701c243e5$2cb95370$2000000a@tsndual933> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:12:58 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis wrote: >On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:51:49AM +0200, Mario Goebbels wrote: >> I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: >> http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index >> I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! > >It's Debian people being silly. Someone decided they liked the FreeBSD >kernel and the Debian way of doing userland and combined the two. As >you can see from the webpage, it's not exactly popular (the site hasn't >been updated in four months.) There are a couple of Debian/BSD efforts going on at the moment, one based on FreeBSD and the other on NetBSD. There's only a couple of people working on each of them, and the principal FreeBSD guy is currently lacking development resources so not much progress is being made there. Both groups are having trouble reconciling the different functionality of glibc and BSD libc. They're planning to make both a part of the next major release of Debian, so it will be ported to N+3 kernels (Linux, Hurd, NetBSD, FreeBSD). Given the effectiveness of their release engineering, don't expect it to get anywhere near general usability for at least a year, and probably getting on for two. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER: SOUTH OR SOUTHEAST 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5 IN HUMBER, BECOMING VARIABLE 3 LATER. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD WITH FOG PATCHES. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message