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- From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: why does nobody post faq (weekly) (shall I ?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.172624.7280@gateway.novell.com>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:26:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.034715.24514@utkux1.utk.edu> frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner (phrank)) writes:
- >concerning the subject:
- >this could avoid some obsolete 'news-traffic'...
- >comments desired.
-
- There are several resons I haven't been doing this:
-
- A) Almost all of the major archives have mirrored agate.berkeley.edu;
- this means that if you know how to get 386BSD such that you will
- need the FAQ, you can get the FAQ.
-
- B) Lynne Jolitz contacted me via email about 2 weeks ago asking for
- the most recent copy. This implies that there might be "official"
- maintenance of it, and that unofficial postings would simply
- duplicate effort, in the best case, or that both would contain
- only partially intersecting data such that you had to have both of
- them, worst case.
-
- C) It's questionable whether or not a 386BSD FAQ would be welcome on
- comp.unix.bsd, given the recent discussion about splitting the
- group.
-
- D) At last count, I have 126 software projects, 4 physics projects,
- 12 writing projects (including the FAQ), and 3 electronic projects
- in the works, not including work, and Friday night is movie night
- 8-). Of these, the top ones are:
-
- 1) Work
- 2) Movie night
- 3) Reading netnews
- 4) Am39C93A SCSI driver
- 5) i82586 driver for PC-10 NAU
- 6) Boot code memory sizing rewrite
- 7) VFS interface rewrite
- 8) Making patch distributions for upload to agate
- 9) Noderunner (X loaderunner game)
- 10) 386BSD FAQ
- 11) Modelling of Relativistically Invariant P-P, N-P, N-N
- Collisions Resulting in Pair Production.
- ...
-
- So it at least makes the top 10 list. 8-).
-
- If anyone has current information on B or C, it *will* adjust the
- position of the FAQ in the list, though not above 4, since 3 is required
- to accumulate information for the FAQ.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
-
- ---
- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
- my present or previous employers.
-