From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 09:11:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22244 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22226 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:10:52 GMT (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22477; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199804131610.JAA22477@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Nadav Eiron , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:21:01 MDT." <199804131421.IAA19814@narnia.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:10:20 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- > 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