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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: GGI
In-Reply-To: <36DFB421.1A845720@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Mar 5, 1999  7:38:25 pm"
To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:48:32 +0100 (CET)
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	freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG
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It seems Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > The GGI people have been looking for someone (with commit priviledges,
> > obviously) to do a FreeBSD port, and have gone so far as to put the
> > kernel pieces of their predominantly Linux project *in the public domain*.
> 
> I looked at GGI, and I liked it. If my memory doesn't fail me, Soren
> remarked that he was not much impressed with it last he checked it.

Thats right.

> What I'd like to know is if the Powers That Be of FreeBSD console
> (Soren and Yokota?) would, present state of the code
> notwithstanding, accept the adoption of GGI once deemed to be
> "ready", or if there is any fundamental flaw with it that makes this
> a hopeless propositon.

Hmmmmm.......
I'll have to take a look at it (again) before commenting to heavily 
on that, at least it has to be done as a minimal impact thing, it
should try to use what we allready have in there, instead of
reinventing the wheel. It should be done as a kernel module if
anything.

-Søren


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