Date: Tue, 06 Aug 96 11:35:18 +0200 From: garyj@frt.dec.com To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Willows? Message-ID: <9608060935.AA28931@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> of Mon, 05 Aug 96 15:38:13 PDT.
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terry@lambert.org writes: > > Could someone explain what Linux Willow is and where to get a copy of it > > from? > There was a list for people who had agreed to their non-disclosure and > obtained the software for porting to FreeBSD. Sujal Patel was the > primary source of FreeBSD fixes (I am also on the list). I haven't > seen any traffic on the list for quite some time now. > > There was at least a beta version (their code, plus our patches) up for > FTP on their site for FreeBSD. I believe that the changes have been > sufficiently radical in -current that the code needs some work, but > it was running Windows apps sufficiently to run MSWord on the 386 > emulator under FreeBSD, and Sujal was working on some stack problems > for running using the native processor in protected mode... > unfortunately, the only source tarball on the server is still 1.5.2 from February. I doubt that this corresponds to the new 2.0 binaries available now. Some time ago Jordan sent Willows a CD and supposedly they were planning to set up a development machine. Doesn't look like this ever happened :( --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org
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