Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:37:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@nlc.net.au Subject: Re: Invitation to participate in Open Source NILO project (fwd) Message-ID: <199903062337.PAA00753@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 08:11:34 PST." <199903031611.IAA96563@whistle.com>
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> Ken asked me to forward this to the FreeBSD project. He is the main > force behind the Etherboot package that I made a port of to boot > FreeBSD a.out & ELF kernels. It appears to be GPL'd. It looks like an > interesting project. "Yuck". We can work with this, certainly, but as you point out it will be GPLed, as well as using the TIF and a lot of linux-specific gunk. From the loader's perspective, you just haul it somewhere into memory somehow and let it run; it doesen't need all this handholding. > Doug A. > > ----- Forwarded message from Ken Yap ----- > [Hi Doug, I believe you are on some FreeBSD lists. Would you be kind > enough to forward this to those lists? TIA, Ken] > > NLnet is pleased to announce that the NILO (Network Interface > LOader) project has commenced in February 1999 with Rob Savoye, of > welcomehome.org, as the project contractor. The NILO project has the > goal of developing Open Source Software for network booting ROMs based > on Linux network adaptor drivers. The resulting ROMs will be able > to boot operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. It will > support the Intel PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) specification. > The project will run until October 1999. For further details please > visit the NILO home page at > > http://www.nilo.org/ > > The NILO project invites the Open Source community to actively participate > in NILO development by joining the NILO developers mailing list and > providing feedback on the documents and software releases as they appear > on the web site. Details of how to subscribe are on the NILO web page. > > The NLnet foundation, started in 1982, is the principal founder of global > area networking in Europe, in what is called today the Internet. NLnet > originates from initiatives taken from the Unix (tm) community and is > fully non-profit. Currently NLnet funds network technology projects > to stimulate electronic information exchange, mainly on the Internet. > See the home page at http://www.nlnet.nl > > Ken > > ----- End of forwarded message from Ken Yap ----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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