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[Erik Reid <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Zenja Solaja:
>
>       Now for the rest of the NetTeam, I know I shouldn't be saying this,
>since its pretty sneaky and has a "lurk in the shadows" kind of feel, but
>have any of you checked out the recent changelogs to NewOS?
>(http://www.newos.org/cgi-bin/perfbrowse.perl?@changes+//depot/...)   Travis
>is implementing a kernel level TCP/IP stack, so that kind of diminishes the
>urgency of what we need to do right now, since the OpenBeOS kernel will
>undoubtably have its own network stack, which is bound to be faster than
>anything we can accomplish in user land.  We'll also be given fd and Posix
>on a silver plate, so to speak.   In order to implement the net_server, all
>we really need to do is provide a wrapper (the BNet*** API's) to assure
>source code compatibility, and an entire set of apps/daemons (FTP
>client/server, Telnet client/server etc).  As I've already mentioned, it
>does feel kind of dirty to add window dressing to work done by 3rd parties
>(there is nothing stopping you from assisting the Kernel team with the
>TCP/IP stack).

I've just talked to him briefly on IRC, and he doesn't seem to have a specific
timeline as far as his own network stack.  He says newos is pretty close to 
ready
to handle a kernel or userland stack, having ports and one network card driver
there, if we want to start throwing it together. (I've also got documentation
on three cards that I own, so it shouldn't be too tough to start getting a bunch
of hardware support in there..)

>       BTW - I bought myself a newer car 2 weeks ago.  New toys for boys...

Eeeek  :)
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