From: KK4D%MARISTB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) Subject: List of stuff that works under Linux Date: 9 Jan 1993 14:04:27 -0600
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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