NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/tech/6375

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:46:44 EST
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
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I may have been the one to mention the Atari ST linux port first so let
me clarify EXACTLY what I said.  To my knowledge, NO ONE is working on
a linux port to the Falcon.  I am interesting in working on the port
however.  Unfortunately, I do not know enough unix guts to do it myself.
I am interested in forming and participating in a team effort to do it...
I am of course probably biting off way more than I can chew but 500K
of my research software runs under X and the thought of being able to
run it at home is too intriguing to resist...

I REPEAT NO ONE TO MY KNOWLEDGE IS WORKING ON AN ST LINUX PORT...
Do you wish to work on it?  Contact me by email.  If there is enough
interest, we can start a mailing list to decide whether this is
feasible and if so, DO IT!  I am incapable of doing the port myself...

I believe that such a port would bring the ST back to life despite the
Katzenjammer kids...  It won't make anyone a millionaire but it'll help
keep it alive...  As usual, Atari has given us an interesting computer,
but now they are going do absolutely nothing to support it so it will
survive but hardly prosper.  Who cares?  The PC still has $h!++y graphics
and sound and it seems like it always will...  So unless we're willing
to sell out we're going to have to do this ourselves...

Scott Le Grand