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- From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
- Subject: Re: Informal Linux Bof at IETF
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.030520.15043@super.org>
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- Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
- References: <1992Nov10.040022.23413@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:05:20 GMT
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- I'm not going to the IETF, but I live in the DC area and would be
- interested in doing "a thing" with other Linux developers.
-
- Random background note // who's-who-and-what:
-
- Locally we have about 10 Linux systems running. I bought a 486 system
- just to run Linux (after buying a 386 motherboard upgrade for a
- housemate's sytem to try it out -- wwc@super.org was trying it out and
- suggested that it was a better bet than my original intention of
- getting BSD). I then put together a purchase of identical systems for
- five coworkers.. I've converted one of the research
- systems running BSDI at work to Linux, and hope to move a few others
- over from BSDI someday soon. That, along with three laptops
- conversions (two purchased just to run Linux!) and a few others just
- about convinced to convert their MS-DOS systems should make a
- reasonable local user community.
-
- My current work is on NE2000, NE1000, and 3C503 ethernet device
- drivers. They still in the pre-alpha stage (ie the bugs are obvious
- enough that I can find them) but it should be ready before v1.00. I also
- have written a Linux audio/generalized-character-device driver that is
- suitable for experimental work. And I think my old NFS server is the
- basis for the currently Linux NFS server.
-
- My future work (once the ethernet drivers are working) is likely to be
- tuning the TCP/IP implementation, implementing an MEther NFS server
- (probably from scratch under the GPL rather than extensions to my old
- NFS server), and maybe playing with a log-structured file system.
-
- Don Becker (becker@super.org)
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- Donald Becker becker@super.org
- Supercomputing Research Center, Institute for Defense Analyses
- 17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114 301-805-7482
-