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to: Maurice Kinal
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2004-10-21 11:33:00
subject: Starting Linux BBS

Re: Starting Linux BBS
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Thu Oct 21 2004 10:25 am

 >  RS> It sure it. And it runs on Linux-x86, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD,
 >  RS> with big
 >  RS> endian platforms (e.g. Linux-PPC and MacOS/X) in the works.
 > 
 > What's your connection to VxWorks and more interestingly Wind River? 

I have no connection with Wind River right now (other than being a customer of
their development tools and OS), although I used to work for them.

 > Aren't
 > these the same people who tried unsuccessfully to kill the Slackware
 > distribution?  What is the deal with that?

I know nothing about that. I know they bought BSDi (or something) sometime
after I left there, but I don't really know the details.

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