From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 6 02:43:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA08302 for current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA08293 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:43:47 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.2/1.0/WV) id FAA00106; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 05:35:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA28931; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:35:19 +0200 Message-Id: <9608060935.AA28931@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of Mon, 05 Aug 96 15:38:13 PDT. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Linux Willows? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Aug 96 11:35:18 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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