From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 08:20:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3ED37B401; Mon, 12 May 2003 08:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F8E43FE5; Mon, 12 May 2003 08:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0346.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.91] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19FF5y-0005iG-00; Mon, 12 May 2003 08:20:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3EBFBB5C.E9E27721@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:18:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Lang References: <20030512124304.GC21837@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a458829069bc3e087c261f35f74dc04830a2d4e88014a4647c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chance for FreeBSD ADSM/TSM client from Tivoli/IBM X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:20:10 -0000 Daniel Lang wrote: > in the past there have been discussions and demand > for a *BSD client for TSM. To my best knowledge there is no > such client. In practice Linux and SCO clients have > been abused partially using dirty tricks (like NFS loop > mounts) to get it running. > > Now, our computing centre is negotiating a new contract, > which makes it possible to get a FreeBSD (or *BSD) TSM > client developed. _BUT_ this will only be successful, if > we can show that there is sufficient demand overall. > > So everybody, who would have interest in a TSM BSD client, > _please_ send me a short email about your demand, like There was a beta version of a client running in Kaffe on the InterJet II. It was never released. The people doing the work were located at Almaden Research. It would probably not be hard to revive (obviously, knowing who has the code is the laregest part of the problem, so hopefully this will help you out). -- Terry