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- From: KK4D%MARISTB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: List of stuff that works under Linux
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 14:04:27 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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-
- Here's a project that I would be interested in overseeing/doing
- or whatever. Maintaining a list of software that people have
- sucessfully ported over the Linux. Sure, a lot of it is on some
- site, or another, but I know there are times where you just grab
- a file from xxx.xxx.yyy.zzz and compile it and it runs. You think
- neat...just what I needed, and then go about your business. If I
- could persuade you to take a second and alert everyone else that
- this works on Linux, I think it would be great.
- (Is there allready something for this?)
-
- Anyway, what I had in mind was something like:
-
- Program Name:
- Obtained from: (ftp site and subdirectory)
- Brief Description: (something like database, cute shoot-em-up game)
- Compiled Under: (Kernel version, GCC version(or whatever lang),
- library version)
- Special Dependencies: (stuff like needs X, or Needs CLISP and joystick)
- Needed Changes: (Changes you had to make. This is the only part
- I'm not sure about. Maybe I could keep a file
- of patches, or where patches could be found.
- If it's something small like "undef BLOCK" then that
- could be kept here, but I don't want this list to
- have stuff like a patch to bring kernel v0.10 up to
- v0.99pl2 :)
-
-
- So what do you think? I can't run this as an automated server as
- we don't have a system that can do this (for student use) but I could
- write some sort of program and leave it running on one of my accounts
- that could handle mailed in requests as long as the subject has a
- certain key in it.
-
- Well, mail any comments or entries to STDN@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU
- or STDN@MARISTB.BITNET (if the first doesn't work)
-
- -Dan
-
-
- Dan Newcombe
- stdn@vm.marist.edu
- kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
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- - Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to
- write, it should be hard to read.
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