From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 02:56:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA16958 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:56:38 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA16952; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:56:34 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA27832; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:57:16 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503251057.KAA27832@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <19824.796077849@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 24, 95 12:44:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1129 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > I would like to propose that we add the following two components to our > system in an effort to both: > > A) Improve the infrastructure that our docs team can rely on. > B) Make FreeBSD a better "out of box" Internet solution. > > 1. httpd. I don't really know which variant is best, though John Fieber > (our Docmaster) has a preference which I'm perfectly happy to follow > (I think it's the CERN httpd). Why do we need to add a server? You don't need a server to read the docs, > > 2. lynx. This would give users the ability to browse any HTML doc we > supply. Mosaic will become an optional package for the X users. Ok, this is reasonable since you're not going to be able to read our docs without a viewer. Anyone want to write a freely-redistributable version of mosaic or netscape, it would certainly be usefull. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.