Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:10:20 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804131610.JAA22477@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:21:01 MDT." <199804131421.IAA19814@narnia.plutotech.com>
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--- > Hi, > > I just noticed that the mash sources are finally available > (see http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu -- mash is a set of tools with the > same functionality as vat/vic/wb/ etc.) > > They should port relatively easily to FreeBSD, with perhaps the > only minor difficulty that they use OTcl and TclCl, for which i am > not sure if we have a port. > Luigi, All the mash tools ought to compile on FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the primary development platform for mash, so you should not require any porting to get it to compile on a FreeBSD box. Thanks. -Yatin ---- > > I know that. What I meant was a list of *academic* institutions (research > > centers, colleges, universities, etc.). > > > > Nadav > > The University of California at Berkeley uses FreeBSD for their > undergraduate course on Operating Systems. Although the two main > teaching assistants for the course last year are large Linux backers > (one being the president of the Linux users group on campus), both > were instrumental in getting the faculty to choose FreeBSD over Linux > for this course. The reasons? Better source code consitency and > quality as well as a large body of documentation of the internals > of BSD OSes. I know that at least one large lab has been dedicated > to FreeBSD since this choice was made, but I do not know if the use > of FreeBSD has spread to other courses. Most users performed most > of the course work from home on their own PCs. > > -- > Justin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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