Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:43:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: crh@outpost.co.nz, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, chris@calldei.com, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, eagle <eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net> Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) Message-ID: <XFMail.990417104313.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990416010628.86539A-100000@eagle.phc.igs.net>
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On 16-Apr-99 eagle wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>
>> > No one is stoping you from writing the tools needed to make FreeBSD a
>> > "desktop-oriented" system. Just as no one is stoping you from writing
>> > a FreeBSD emulator for Linux which, if I remember right, was you last
>> > obsession. If you feel that there are things missing from FreeBSD you
>> > need to go and build them.
>>
>> Actually, a better question is why are people not writing applications?
>> Is it because they lack the programming skills, inefficient tools,
>> targetted goals, etc...
>>
> i've come to the conclusion that it has to do with available
> documentation, thus the PDP was started, however that will just cover
> freebsd internals, not the x protocol
Correct Rob, I am busy getting everything out on ASCII and have been
getting involved a lot into device drivers and other lowlevel stuff in
order to understand FreeBSD more to provide the documentation and make it as
accurate as possible.
However, I am currently busy with starting up a company and unfortunately
that easts time. But I'm still there ;)
To continue, I wrote to AMI with regard to their MegaRAID controllers and
drivers in order to get them into FreeBSD. I hope to provide details soon.
Also, I am working, alongside with Rob, on a graphical MUA which will be
released under BSD style license...
JFYI,
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