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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!198.147.221.35!news.xnet.com!news.megsinet.net!newsin.iconnet.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!news.onramp.net!news.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!hammy!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news3.crl.com!nntp3.crl.com!syix.com!bad-ne ws.harborcom.net!news.BSDI.COM!newsfeed.orst.edu!dogbert.supra.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!130.207.244.18!gatech!news1.mid-ga.com!nntp.mid-ga.com!news.oru.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:50:54 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Message-ID: <4ECD0B4A1C6213F3.ED457B33F8015F19.9C796B5C726FAC58@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <338F59CE.62319AC4@FreeBSD.org> References: <337A4307.3BF9@vertexcomm.com> <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <5lm7v4$fpi$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <87enb5xkd6.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <EAGK5D.4BH@nonexistent.com> <5mdb7t$kkj$4@mark.ucdavis.edu> <EAyy1D.17q@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Louis Epstein <le@put.com> Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42225 Louis Epstein wrote: > > David E. O'Brien (obrien@relay.nuxi.com) wrote: > : Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: > : > Again...is any FreeBSD hacker working on svgatext? > : > : Don't believe so. I think 2 or 3 have tried.. but it is horably unclean, > : layed, modular code. It is highly intertwined with Linuxisms. > > So is there a way to get the results for FBSD? Yeah, write a new text display system from scratch. Please let us know when you have your first roughly working implementation for us to test and we'll let you know whether you're on the right track or not. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.