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- From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
- Subject: ref.tfs.com -- check out what the 386BSD people have.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.065129.6212@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:51:29 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- I forgot, in the article where I mentioned ref.tfs.com, the 386BSD
- community centre, to give the login etc.
-
- How to get there:
- telnet to ref.tfs.com (140.145.254.251)
- log in as guest (no password)
- follow the instructions in making an account for yourself.
-
- Any questions should be addressed to Julian Elischer, the
- maintainer, I believe his address is julian@tfs.com
- or julian@tfs2.com or something like that.
- Also julian@ref.tfs.com, but he seems rarely to read it.
-
- The system is a complete 386BSD system up&running connected to the
- network. There are mailing lists for people interested in
- 386BSD stuff, several source trees (ALL utilities,
- just about all ported packages are installed there,
- several kernels (original,patched,experimental)), facilities
- to compile your own kernel if you lack the disk space,
- or have too little memory, etc. etc. etc.
-
- So, does anybody have the possibility to provide something like
- this for Linux? I think it would be a very good idea.
-
- If we could get a machine with LOTS of disk space and
- set it up to a sort of a "standard" source tree etc,
- then we might get a LOT less FAQs here. We could also
- standardise the packages (each package in a directory
- that has a src, bin, man and symbolic links from
- /usr/bin, /usr/man into there. Then installing
- a package would be easy, you'd take the appropriate
- packages (bin,man,src), and a script would untar them
- and make the links. If you only wanted the bin and man,
- no prob, also get the source later and compile away.
- Something like /usr/packages ???
- Also, for easy install, the packages needing anything
- else should contain BOTH instructions and a script
- so that both wizards and newbies can use them the
- way they want to. But I digress..)
- (More digressing: version control, distributions etc.
- could be easily managed from such a machine...)
-
- For the second time, if anyone volunteers a machine on the net
- for this, I'm willing to participate as a sysadmin to the
- extent possible over the net.
-
- Any takers?
-
- TJL
-