From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) Subject: ref.tfs.com -- check out what the 386BSD people have. Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:51:29 GMT
I forgot, in the article where I mentioned ref.tfs.com, the 386BSD
community centre, to give the login etc.
How to get there:
telnet to ref.tfs.com (140.145.254.251)
log in as guest (no password)
follow the instructions in making an account for yourself.
Any questions should be addressed to Julian Elischer, the
maintainer, I believe his address is julian@tfs.com
or julian@tfs2.com or something like that.
Also julian@ref.tfs.com, but he seems rarely to read it.
The system is a complete 386BSD system up&running connected to the
network. There are mailing lists for people interested in
386BSD stuff, several source trees (ALL utilities,
just about all ported packages are installed there,
several kernels (original,patched,experimental)), facilities
to compile your own kernel if you lack the disk space,
or have too little memory, etc. etc. etc.
So, does anybody have the possibility to provide something like
this for Linux? I think it would be a very good idea.
If we could get a machine with LOTS of disk space and
set it up to a sort of a "standard" source tree etc,
then we might get a LOT less FAQs here. We could also
standardise the packages (each package in a directory
that has a src, bin, man and symbolic links from
/usr/bin, /usr/man into there. Then installing
a package would be easy, you'd take the appropriate
packages (bin,man,src), and a script would untar them
and make the links. If you only wanted the bin and man,
no prob, also get the source later and compile away.
Something like /usr/packages ???
Also, for easy install, the packages needing anything
else should contain BOTH instructions and a script
so that both wizards and newbies can use them the
way they want to. But I digress..)
(More digressing: version control, distributions etc.
could be easily managed from such a machine...)
For the second time, if anyone volunteers a machine on the net
for this, I'm willing to participate as a sysadmin to the
extent possible over the net.
Any takers?
TJL