Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:37:35 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (user alias) Subject: xosview beta-test volunteers needed (fwd) Message-ID: <199602160937.KAA23808@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Picked up from a concurrent thread FYI: Forwarded message: > From owner-netbsd-help@netbsd.org Fri Feb 16 04:55:29 1996 > Message-Id: <199602152045.OAA13269@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> > Subject: xosview beta-test volunteers needed > To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org > Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:45:16 -0600 (CST) > From: bgrayson@pine.ece.utexas.edu (Brian C. Grayson) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Length: 1684 > Sender: owner-netbsd-help@netbsd.org > Precedence: list > X-Loop: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG > > Several months ago, I ported the Linux xosview application (a graphical > performance meter) to NetBSD-i386. After communication with the original > author, Mike Romberg, further enhancements have been done, and the > NetBSD port of xosview has been merged in with the C++ source tree. > xosview 1.4 is currently close to release, which will be xosview's public > debut as a NetBSD application. > > So far, xosview for NetBSD has only been tested on 5 Pentium machines I > have access to. In addition, I'm the only one who has installed it. As > such, I'd like some beta testers, preferrably including people from > non-i386 ports, to see how easy it is to install (and how good the > directions are), and make sure that it performs as expected (no major > bugs). We want the 1.4 release to be as high-quality as possible! > gcc-2.7.0 is required (or at least recommended -- we blew away 2.5.2(?) > when we bumped up to 2.7.2, so I can't test it with 2.5.2). > > I have a very simple home page for xosview, at > http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~bgrayson/xosview.html. A real, permanent kind > of web page is being designed by Mike Romberg, that will also have links > for downloading source code or binaries. > > Volunteers should reply directly to me (no reason to clutter up the > mailing list any worse than necessary!). I'll send you a uuencoded tgz > file (~50KB in size) as soon as time permits! > > Thanks for your time! I hope other people agree that xosview is a useful > utility. > > Brian > -- > Brian Grayson (bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu) > Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering > The University of Texas at Austin > Office: ENS 406 (512) 471-8011 > Finger bgrayson@pine.ece.utexas.edu for PGP key. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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