Subject: The new TODO list and a FTP-admin specific question Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 10:27:48 +0100 From: blum@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Robert Blum)
Hi Linuxers!
I am just mailing to remind you that there still exists this TODO-file.
If you have ported anything lately or can help me fill the questinable
things, please mail me.
Following at the end of the file is the latest release of TODO.
But before you start dropping this into the trashbin:
All FTP-Site-maintainers with Linux-specific stuff, please read at the end
of the mail!!
=============== Following is TODO =======================
This files contains the status of several tools for Linux
Currently ported projects:
Name: ported by: available at
bison nicholas@cs.uwa.oz.au tupac-amaru
nic.funet.fi
flex ?? tupac-amaru
nic.funet.fi
diff ?? tupac-amaru
nic.funet.fi
kermit ?? tupac-amaru
nic.funet.fi
===============================================================================
Projects currently under development:
Name: ported by: Remarks
c386 blum@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Is working under Linux
A cc for this exists
Is currently teached
ANSI. Any help on this
would be appreciated.
gawk nicholas@cs.uwa.oz.au Still needs a working
mathlib.
VFS proven@athena.mit.edu VFS=Virtual File System
Will probably out with
Linux 0.11
Networking jtkohl@echidna.berkeley.edu Mainly the BSD code
Perhaps even ffs
=================End of TODO=======================
Now the stuff for you site admins out there:
What do you think of a kind of mailing list for new sources/binaries?
E.G:
You get the new kernel code. Instead of installing it directly, you post
it to the mailing list, and it will be automatically installed on all FTP
sites that have joined the mailing list, including yours.
So we could keep the whole archives consistent and thus spread the load.
Currently, the host who has it first will have the heaviest load.
(But wait, funet.fi is the one to have it first... I think we shouldn't
do the list :-)
You might even offer the linux community to join this list read-only, so
everybody who wants to, always finds the newest binaries in his mailbox.
Of course, this depends on
a) if you have to pay for mail
b) how much you have to pay
What do you think about this? Do you like the idea?
Please send in any replies/thoughts you have concerning this
OK, and thank you for listening
Robert Blum