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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
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- Subject: Clarifications of X386 1.2E 1.0 announcement
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.125438.2124@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:54:38 GMT
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: AT&T
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- This is a followup to the announcement of X386 1.2E 1.0 that was posted
- on Saturday, July 18, 1992. This is solely to clarify a few points.
-
- 1) The name of this product is X386 1.2E 1.0. Please be very careful when
- referencing this name, so as not to confuse it with commercial products
- from SGCS (Snitily Graphics Consulting Service). We don't really want
- to change the name at this late date, but there has been confusion,
- and if it persists, we will have to change the name.
-
- 2) This is not a product of Thomas Roell or SGCS. Any reports of problems
- with X386 1.2E should be sent to <x386@physics.su.oz.au>. If there is
- a reason to contact Mark or Thomas about a bug, we will do so. But all
- reports should come to us first.
-
- 3) This is free (but copyrighted) software. It will remain free software,
- for the forseeable future (i.e. at the very least, until X11R6 is
- released). We will support it, and keep up to date with MIT public
- fixes. This software, being freely available, may or may not become
- part of commercial products; we are not restricting that. When X11R6
- rolls around, we will be working with SGCS to submit a merge of our
- software with their SVGA product to X11R6. Depending on what the
- final outcome is, we may or may not continue this project past then
- (and no, I have no idea when X11R6 is coming, or what will be in it,
- so don't ask).
-
- 4) At this time, support for Mach386 and 386BSD 0.1 is not yet ready.
- Mach386 is reportedly close (which is why the original announcement did
- not list it as working correctly). The release of 386BSD 0.1 caught us
- by surprise. X386 1.2E 1.0 is up on 386BSD 0.0, but the new release
- is not yet ready, and we don't have a time table. BSD/386 and Linux
- were reported by Beta-Testers to be ready before the announcement was
- posted. For now, requests for support for these systems are being
- directed to the Beta-Tester who has volunteer to provide source and/or
- binary support. We will be looking into merging support of these OS's
- into the core release, but since none of the core team is currently
- running any of these OS's, we have no way to test, so it will be a
- slow process.
-
- 5) Shared library support for SVR3 is still not present. If anyone wants
- to volunteer to put that together, a lot of people would be grateful.
-
- As always, all requests for information, and other communications on
- X386 1.2E should be directed to <x386@physics.su.oz.au>
-
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