Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:54:24 -0700 From: John Heidemann <johnh@FICUS.CS.UCLA.EDU> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse support under 950412-SNAP ... how? Message-ID: <9504172054.AA27052@nottingham.cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504172021.NAA29437@ref.tfs.com>
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On Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:21:00 PDT, Julian Elischer wrote: >now of course the big question WE all want to know, >(having seen that you have at least one FreeBSD machine there) >is will there be any flow-over from ficus work into FreeBSD... >(i.e. will we be able to get fixes for freeBSD from the ficus project >when ficus changes or finds bugs? :) > >(we actually discussed this at the last FreeBSD core team get-together >last week) First, I can't speak for the Ficus project as a whole. That said, we've currently bought 15 x86 portables to do distributed computing research. We're looking at OSes to run on them, and we're considering Solaris/x86, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux (in no particular order). There are a *lot* of trade-offs among all of these OSes, so it's not at all clear which one we'll end up with. Several people are already running Linux and Solaris/x86. Whatever operating system we go with, if we find and fix bugs, and we can reach the maintainers, we'll be happy to do so. Our primary goal is to have something stable to do our research, though, since our funding agent probably won't be happy if we spend our time fixing OS bugs rather than doing research. Finally, I'm trying hard to graduate this summer, so I won't be able to do a lot of hacking personally any time soon. What I really want right now is something that runs TeX and idraw so I can finish writing my dissertation. >excuse my ignorance but is Jan-Simon Pendry part of your group? Jan-Simon Pendry has never been part of the Ficus project. The 4.4BSD work he was directly with Kirk. Besides, he's over in England hacking somewhere while we're all here in sunny southern California. -John
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