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- From: schlote@ips106.desy.de (Hans Werner Schlote)
- Subject: Re: Registry of ongoing projects
- In-Reply-To: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu's message of 21 Jul 92 17:36:22 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:32:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.173622.23652@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
-
- > I was reading the flamefest on the deficiencies of Linux, and I got to
- > wondering if anybody was working on adding ATI support to the X-windows
- > stuff, and if anybody was working on adding 32-bit SCSI support, and so
- > on and so forth.
- There is some guy working on ATI support right now. Excuse, don't
- have his name in mind.
- > It also occurred to me that multiple people might be working on the same
- > project (unknowingly) and duplicating each other's work. So I thought it
- > might be a Good Idea (patent pending) to start a registry of on-going
- > Linux projects. I don't know if one exists, but I'd be more than happy
- > to run it if it doesn't (well, I can't program worth beans in C or
- > assembly language, and I'd like to do something to contribute to this
- > _*EXCELLENT*_ OS -- Thanks a million, Linus).
- Same from me. I think you should post your projects to Linus.
- But a database wouldn't be a bad idea in my opinion.
- > So whaddya think? We could have the programmers out there send me a message
- > stating what their project is, what the status of it is, etc, and I could
- > summarize and post a List of Ongoing Projects, perhaps in conjunction with
- > the FAQ (which'll be "fortnightly", according to the latest version).
- What about a database-system like NED (NASA/IPAC database on
- extragalactic objects at caltech). Guest login without passwd,
- simply with autostarting the database for getting the informations?
- Opinions, comments, ideas?
- Think it's a good idea.
-
- have a nice hack
- harvey
-
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