Re: Web page

1999-01-29 Thread Jonathan Hall
Once ELKS has a TCP/IP stack, I volunteer to host the web pages on my numerous 8088s and 80286s running ELKS. :-) We could set up a round-robin DNS sort of setup Whoohoo! On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Leif Hardison wrote: > Like usual I can provide various dns redirects or hosting. I've put up a

Patch for broken utent functions in libc.

1999-01-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Hi, The patch included below fixes the two obvious bugs I spotted in the utent functions in dev86 while I was implementing utmp stuff this afternoon. The next release of ELKS will require this to be fixed to build correctly. Rob, could you megre this lot into your sources, and include it in your

Re: Web page

1999-01-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Roger Dingledine writes: > > > > I can't host or mirror the home page, but i would be happy to maintain it. > > > How about setting up a cvs repository for the web site, and then setting > > the web site to do an update every few hours? I can host the pages here no > > problem, but offering oth

Re: Web page

1999-01-29 Thread Leif Hardison
Like usual I can provide various dns redirects or hosting. I've put up a newer web server thats looks to be a bit mor epowerful than my current one we could host the pages there or where ever. -Leif Hardison hardware.doa.org On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > > I can't

Re: Web page

1999-01-29 Thread Roger Dingledine
> > I can't host or mirror the home page, but i would be happy to maintain it. > How about setting up a cvs repository for the web site, and then setting > the web site to do an update every few hours? I can host the pages here no > problem, but offering others a login is more difficult. It so

linux-8086 info line

1999-01-29 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:02:09PM +0100, Chipzz wrote: > > What could be done, is by the administrator of majordomo: add a comment to > the list of mailinglists, stating that 8086 != 80x86, so anyone requesting > a list to see what lists may be apropriate (how do you spell this?) would > see tha

Re: Web page

1999-01-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Beau Kuiper writes: > > Hi all, > > I can't host or mirror the home page, but i would be happy to maintain it. > I would intend to keep the homepage simple since i don't use any html > page writting tools to edit them. Anyway, most bandwidth hungry, difficult > to write things get 10% of the at

Re: ELKS binary

1999-01-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Blaz Antonic writes: > > > Please report back to the list including information about any software you > > can get to work. > > Just FYI, serial with ioctl()s will probably be debugged in few days and > working as expected along with simple dumb terminal program that doesn't > use select() (it u

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...

1999-01-29 Thread Jonathan Hall
That's actually 8086-8088-80286 (and actually, there's an 80186 in there as well :-) > Please accept facts. To many people not knowing history so well; > the 8088-8086-80186-80286-80386-80486-Pentium is an unbroken line > of development of the same processor. > Hence the misguided questi

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...

1999-01-29 Thread Chipzz
> Hence the misguided questions. > The real question is: what should we do about it? > Politely redirect them to the correct place? > Shout at them? > Rename our list? > > Regards, > Jakob Eriksson What could be done, is by the administrator of majordomo: add a comment to the list of mailinglist

Web page

1999-01-29 Thread Beau Kuiper
Hi all, I can't host or mirror the home page, but i would be happy to maintain it. I would intend to keep the homepage simple since i don't use any html page writting tools to edit them. Anyway, most bandwidth hungry, difficult to write things get 10% of the attention and use but 90% of the deve

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...

1999-01-29 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Stephen Bowyer wrote: > Not that I'm arguing, I agree that the original question was posted > to the wrong list. But what questions about development for the > 80286 (such as 286 protected mode)? I've noticed a few discussions > involving that, which I guess then was total

Re: ELKS binary

1999-01-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Eko Priono writes: > > Hi all, > > I hope this not part of ELKS FAQ: Is there any bootable ELKS > binary available for download? Linux for XT has just became > a topic on our list. I think it will be good if some of us > old PC hobyists could help beta testing ELKS on real legacy > machine

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...

1999-01-29 Thread Stephen Bowyer
Hi David Murn, > Not quite. Not "Linux machines based on the 8086" more "Linux based on > the 8086". > If you can't distinguish the difference between 8086 and 80x86 maybe you > should read up on it some more. > We don't mind 8086 linux questions, that's 100% what the list is for, but > 8086,

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...

1999-01-29 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, David Murn wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > Uhh, excuse me but the list says it is for linux 8086, which even to me > > means it's a list for Linux machines based on the 8086 processor. ie 386, > > 486, 586 ect. ect. > > Not quite. Not "Linux ma

Re: Networking ?

1999-01-29 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > > I agree that the ELKS homepage needs updating. It lists quite > > > old versions of both the ELKS kernel and dev86 development environment. > > > > > > In addition, some of the pointers to the most recent versions of the above > > > are not cor

Re: Networking ?

1999-01-29 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > I agree that the ELKS homepage needs updating. It lists quite > > old versions of both the ELKS kernel and dev86 development environment. > > *Please* take it over - someone anyway, Im no longer working on ELKS (too many > toys too little time) and I can

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...

1999-01-29 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, David D.W. Downey wrote: > Uhh, excuse me but the list says it is for linux 8086, which even to me > means it's a list for Linux machines based on the 8086 processor. ie 386, > 486, 586 ect. ect. Not quite. Not "Linux machines based on the 8086" more "Linux based on the 808