From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Apr 23 03:10:57 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA20321 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 03:10:57 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA20312 ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 03:10:57 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 03:10:57 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199504231010.DAA20312@freefall.cdrom.com> To: announce Subject: Demo version of SimCity Classic now available for FreeBSD 2.x. Cc: pds Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The award winning computer game SimCity is an animated simulation game, providing a set of rules and tools for planning and building a complex dynamic simulated city. The player can zone land use, hook up the power grid, build roads, bridges, parks and stadiums, raise taxes, and even summon disasters, causing the city to grow and thrive or crumble and die. SimCity features multiple city views and maps with overlays for graphically displaying your own city or one of the existing cities in the library included. With the multi-player version of SimCity Classic players can simultaneously interact on screen, having to vote on many of the more critical decisions. SimCity Classic for FreeBSD is available for $49.95 for the single player version and $69.95 for the multi-player player version directly from M&W Consulting, Ltd., (713) 627-9229, FAX (713) 626-7566 or Email ronniew252@aol.com. You may also download a fully functional free demo of SimCity via FTP on the internet at ftp.dfw.net (198.175.15.10) in the "pub/SimCity" directory, using the filename "scl_bsd_3.6b.tar.Z", or as the FreeBSD package "SimCity-3.6b.tgz" from the central FreeBSD commercial products repository: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/commercial/ Note: In the interim, while ftp.freebsd.org is being upgraded, you may also get it from the directory: ftp://freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-950412-SNAP/commercial/ As both a tarball and a package. Have fun! Many thanks to the kind folks at M&W Consulting for bringing the first commercial game to FreeBSD! I've already purchased two copies for myself.. :-) Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Apr 23 17:18:16 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA14389 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:18:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA14381 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:18:14 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: announce@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: ACC Corp.: SWiM-Motif 2.0 for FreeBSD 2.0 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:18:14 -0700 Message-ID: <14378.798682694@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I haven't personally tested this product yet, but the last version (1.2.3) worked just fine for me. If you need to know where to go for Motif, these are the right folks! Jordan ------- Forwarded Message From: bob@acc-corp.com (ACC Corp.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: SWiM-Motif 2.0 for FreeBSD 2.0 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 95 11:53:17 GMT Lines: 96 Message-Id: Nntp-Posting-Host: slip38-86.il.us.ibm.net X-Newsreader: VersaTerm Link v1.1.5 Keywords: Motif, X, Windowing, GUI The latest edition of the FreeBSD Motif from GUI Corporation: SWiM 2.0, is now available for FreeBSD 2.0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ With the leading Motif development environment for FreeBSD 2.0, you can make your FreeBSD workstation fully compatible with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, or other commercial Unixes by running SWiM-Motif 2.0 as your window manager and development environment. * Port Motif compatible code from commercial Unix machines to your FreeBSD workstation. * Develop Motif compatible code on your FreeBSD workstation, and port it to commercial Unix workstations. * Connect your FreeBSD 2.0 workstation to Unix networks as a client to applications that require OSF/Motif. * Learn real OSF/Motif programming and development with SWiM 2.0. The package comes complete with 170 pages of printed documents and thousands of additional pages of reference material on the CD. SWiM is a complete port of the OSF Motif 2.0 window manager to the FreeBSD 2.0 OS. The OSF packages included on the CD-ROM include: * mwm (the Window Manager) * Shared Library (eg libXm, LibMrm) * Static Libraries (libXm, LibMrm & libUil) * Header & Include Files * Source Code for OSF/Motif demos * OSF/Motif Users Guide as a bound Manual and in electronic format. * Includes multiple binary versions for: -X11R5 -X11R6 in a.out and -ELF format Documentation : * Users Guide * Widget Guide * Programmers guide * Style Guide all in both postscript and ASCII formats. OSF provided demo programs include: * Clipboard - cut & paster between apps * hellomotif - button-press demo * periodic - periodic table of Motif Widgets * textedit - text editor * xmpiano - music editor example * xmsamplers - lots of Motif demos! * DragAndDrop - sample Drag & Drop aps Technical Support is included and is available direct from the developers of SWiM as well as from many reputable resellers in your neighbourhood ! List price is $199.00 (resellers welcome :) Special Internet customers price only: $149.00 ! * SWiM-Motif 2.0 is also available on Linux. (On CD - includes the online reference or usenet materials) Please Contact : USA Asia & Europe --- ------------- ACC Corp Lasermoon Ltd, 25 Sylvan Rd S #F, The Forge, Westport CT 06880 Fareham Road, Wickham, Hants, USA PO17 5DE ENGLAND Tel : (800) 454-5502 Phone +44 (0) 329 834944 (203) 454-5500 Fax +44 (0) 329 834955 Fax: (203) 454-2582 ftp.lasermoon.co.uk Email: info@acc-corp.com info@lasermoon.co.uk WWW for ACC: http://www.on-the-net.com/acc-corp WWW for Lasermoon: http://ftp.lasermoon.co.uk Canada ------ Sunni Micro Lab 1300 Britannia Rd. East, Suite 208 Mississauga, Ont. L4W 1C8 Canada Phone: 1.905.795.9292 Fax: 1.905.795.9291 Motif is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation. SWiM is a trademark of GUI Corporation. ACC Corp., Inc. "Home of the PC UNIX - Linux Catalog" (800) 454-5502 or (203) 454-5500 fax: (203) 454-2582 info@acc-corp.com or http://www.on-the-net.com/acc-corp ------- End of Forwarded Message From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Apr 27 19:23:50 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA21280 for announce-outgoing; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 19:23:50 -0700 Received: from redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.36.44]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA21274 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 19:23:44 -0700 Received: (from maddox@localhost) by redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA03000; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 19:24:06 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 19:24:06 -0700 From: William Maddox Message-Id: <199504280224.TAA03000@redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org, rcarter@geli.com Subject: Re: N. Cal.: FreeBSD party Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Have many people expressed interest? I have been following the FreeBSD newsgroups and the 'freebsd-announce' mailing list, but have not yet bought a machine, and am perplexed by the various compatibility issues. It would be interesting to meet some people in the area who have been through all this already. Since I live in Berkeley, and would have to take the train, though, it would take some effort to get there. Bill From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Apr 28 04:39:52 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA10485 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 04:39:52 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA10479 ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 04:39:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA03158; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 04:39:50 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: doc@freefall.cdrom.com cc: announce@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: xhtml editor available.. Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 04:39:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3156.799069190@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John mentioned this awhile back, and while cleaning out my mailbox I stumbled across it. I've ported 1.1 and compiled up static and dynamic versions of it, making them available as packages (linked against Motif 2.0). Look for xhtml-static.tgz and xhtml-shared.tgz, depending on whether or not you have a Motif 2.0 license. URLs: ftp://freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/editors/xhtml-shared.tgz ftp://freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/editors/xhtml-static.tgz Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Apr 28 07:57:30 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA15539 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 07:57:30 -0700 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.2.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA15515 ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 07:57:08 -0700 Received: from asterix.urc.tue.nl (asterix.urc.tue.nl [131.155.5.10]) by mailhost.tue.nl (8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA15395; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:56:49 +0200 Received: (from wmbfmk@localhost) by asterix.urc.tue.nl (8.6.11) id OAA25963; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 14:56:48 GMT From: Marc van Kempen Message-Id: <199504281456.OAA25963@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Subject: Re: xhtml editor available.. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:56:48 +0200 (MDT) Cc: doc@freefall.cdrom.com, announce@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <3156.799069190@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 28, 95 04:39:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 517 Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > John mentioned this awhile back, and while cleaning out my mailbox I > stumbled across it. I've ported 1.1 and compiled up static and > dynamic versions of it, making them available as packages (linked > against Motif 2.0). > You may also want to check out tkHTML, which is a html editor based on tk (surprise :-)). It looks very nice, and has online help. I can't say how well it works in the real life, as I have not yet really tested it. Look at: http://www.infosystems.com/tkHTML/tkHTML.html Marc. From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Apr 28 09:57:20 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA18504 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:57:20 -0700 Received: from violet.berkeley.edu (violet.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.155.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA18498 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:57:19 -0700 Received: by violet.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.33r) id JAA14637; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:57:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:57:17 -0700 From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Message-Id: <199504281657.JAA14637@violet.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: wcarchive.cdrom.com (also known as ftp.freebsd.org) back up. Summary: wcarchive.cdrom.com is up Organization: University of California, Berkeley Apparently-To: announce@FreeBSD.org Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Some of you may have noticed (well, perhaps ALL of you, judging by the amount of emailed complaints we've received :-) that wcarchive.cdrom.com was down all last week. We went to pop a couple of extra drives into it and were treated to a rather complete and unexpected controller failure instead. We subsequently had some rather significant hardware hurdles to jump over, not the least of which was 3 brand-new Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB hard drives going south unexpectedly. Given that this is 4 GPs I've lost in 4 weeks (2 of which died in completely different environmental circumstances, so it's not just our machine room), I think it's safe to say that Quantum may be having some quality control problems with these drives! :-( I've switched back to the Seagate Barracuda drives and all seems happy again. The Seagates are even about $100 cheaper, so my traditional prejudice against Seagate may be weakening here. Anyway, that's all somewhat beside the point. The machine is back up and running with the following configuration, just FYI: o Intel Triton chipset MB with 128MB of RAM o SMC PCI DC21040 based ethernet board o 3 Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI controllers o 15 3GB drives (soon to be 18, once I get replacements) The new Triton based MB gives about 30% better performance to the cache, so we decided that it was worth sacrificing the extra 64MB of RAM that our older ASUS Neptune chipset, dual-Pentium motherboard gave us (6 SIMM sockets instead of just 4). We also didn't have much choice as the ASUS (or Neptune chipset) appears to have some serious hardware bugs that prevent it from working with more than 2 PCI SCSI controllers and/or 2 DMA bus-mastering devices. I can say that we tried for over 3 days with every conceivable controller combination available (I now have 6 extra PCI & EISA scsi controllers lying around :-) and had absolutely no luck until we switched to the new Triton MB. Once EDO memory and the new pipelined-burst SRAM cache is available, we'll be giving that a spin as well since the MB supports it. Just further confirmation of the fact that you CAN make a serious server out of a PC, but you'd damned well better know *exactly* what you're doing! The road is littered with the corpses of those who have picked the wrong combination or had the simple misfortune to be trying just a _little too early_ in the game before the hardware actually worked. :-) We were very lucky in finding an early Triton that actually did the job and it could have easily gone the other way. The operating system is FreeBSD-current, as available from the very same machine :-) For the first time we're actually running the very same bits we're "pushing out the door" and this is a nice milestone for us. For those that are curious, we will also be taking this distribution, modulo whatever fixes we add in the next couple of days, and sending it out as "FreeBSD 2.0.5" - essentially an interim release between 2.0R and 2.1R to buy us a little time to do 2.1R the way we want to do it and give folks something substantially better than 2.0R to run in the meantime. Those who read the mailing list will have already seen my pre-announcement of 2.0.5. Suffice it to say that we wouldn't be running this on wcarchive (our "flagship" machine, as it were) if we didn't feel pretty good about it, so I'll have little or no reservations about recommending 2.0.5 to folks who can't wait for 2.1R (though 2.1R will, of course, be better! :). More on 2.0.5 will be posted here very soon. Now all this isn't quite to say "come and get it!" on wcarchive. Those who have already logged into it have found that the limit is set to an unusually low 175 (down from 450). This is because the machine is still here at Walnut Creek on our T1 and "under observation." Since our poor T1 completely swamps out after about 150 sessions, we've set the limit down to prevent a total meltdown (we want some bandwidth left over to read the Playboy web pages too, you know! :-). This will cease to be a problem once it's been tested for a few more days and we can ship it back down to its regular location on the Internet backbone. This is all just to let everyone know what's going on.. We're sorry for the length of the outtage but hope that there will be some positive effects of all this as well, namely better performance of the machine and quite a bit more disk space than we had before. Thank you all for your patience! Jordan