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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!glt From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD vs Linux Date: 12 Apr 1993 04:07:04 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1qapt9INNg49@gap.caltech.edu> References: <1q7ot2$guo@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au> <1q87cpINNfql@gap.caltech.edu> <1q8bg3$1rju@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >olvwm uses the (free!) `xview' toolkit, which runs on almost any system >which runs X. I must be looking in the wrong places, where is olvwm for 386bsd? >> a working TCX which compresses the binaries >Seems to work fine under 386BSD. Hmm..I tried compiling it but it failed no matter what I did.. >> Working virtual consoles with automatic vga card recognition. >I've been using syscons 0.1 for a long time. Besides fixing one >egregious bug (it *was* alpha-test software...) it's been working just >dandy. Virtual consoles are here. I am using syscons .2. For me, the ansi termcaps that came with it seem to not work at all.. However, I did find that the at386 termcap works a lot better..but still not as stable as it would be in NCSA telenet and dos.. >PCFS for 386BSD has been around for a long time, too. Really? Wow.. I guess I have to look for that also.. -Greg Tanaka glt@ccotech.edu glt@ugcs.caltech.edu glt@macross.caltech.edu (My rather unstable 386bsd machine) p.s. May be I was wrong about 386bsd