From: legalize AT xmission DOT xmission DOT com (Phil McRevis) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports. Date: 25 Jun 1999 08:45:11 -0600 Organization: multi-cellular, biological Lines: 21 Message-ID: <7l04ln$4ft$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <37700726 DOT 310247 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es> <3771404d DOT 50378967 AT news DOT warwick DOT net> <3771e5e6 DOT 52530886 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es> NNTP-Posting-Host: xmission.xmission.com X-Trace: news.xmission.com 930321914 22496 198.60.22.20 (25 Jun 1999 14:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT xmission DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jun 1999 14:45:14 GMT X-Reply-Etiquette: No copy by email, please To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com guille AT iies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia) spake the secret code <3771e5e6 DOT 52530886 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es> thusly: >I mean, just imagine that we have to develop:: > >A BSD socket library for DOS which doesn't need Windows. > + >A POSIX compliant thread library > + >A whole replacement for libc to make it MT-safe > + >A port of XFree86 > >I wonder if such a huge ammount of work would be worth the effort. You just ported most of linux but avoided writing the kernel ;-) -- http://www.xmission.com/~legalize Legalize Adulthood! legalize AT xmission DOT com ``Ain't it funny that they all fire the pistol,