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Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work
From: |
Paul Ward |
Subject: |
Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:29:37 +0000 |
On 14 Nov 2015, at 15:52, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi
(removing most CC'd people, since they can read us on the mailing
list)
Adam S wrote:
So - we have a passion for NeXTStep and GNUStep, and its really key
that we keep GNU going and inject some life back into it.
Granted :) Or I wouldn't be working for GNU-related stuff. Seeing
where proprietary OS's are going
Open to discussion of course, but how I feel we can do this is by
working together and develop GNUStep into something great which
acts as both a homage to NeXTStep OS but also gives us the
opportunity to develop our "one day I want to do..." projects!
Sure. GNUstep is just a piece, the foundation where you can build
on. Actually, you need an underlying OS, but there you have a broad
choice and that is what I like in GNUstep.
- Almost any Linux Flavour
- FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD work nowadays all very well with
GNUstep! Remember that NeXT was BSD based
- Solaris from version 8+ (although 7 perhaps still works). Due to
thread stuff we dropped vintage 2.5/2.6 so if you have a trusty
SparcStation either you upgrade OS or change to a BSD flavour
- limited but working Windows support (I need to try ReactOS)
I don't know how Darwin fits
I haven't paid attention to Darwin since the OpenDarwin project
folded, though I understand that there's a new effort called
PureDarwin. I assume GNUstep will support it, as Darwin is just Xnu +
FreeBSD.
Being honest, hacking up a Darwin+GNUstep 'distro' has been an itch
I've been meaning to scratch for a long time -- with the caveat that
anything created during such an effort be portable so that others can
use it with their preferred platform (for example, I wrote a 'uname'
tool for NeXT platforms that can also be used on OSX as it makes use
of Mach calls -- this wouldn't work on other systems).
As an example I'm working on Cuboid, a mini replica NeXT Cube using
Raspbian and GNU. I've already had help and support from Richard
and Riccardo, and I can't wait to share the end result with everyone!
Is the plan to turn Raspbian into something akin to, say, OPENSTEP 4.2
for Mach?
Personally, I feel that's easily possible (just a script that invokes
'configure' with options so that all the GNUstep directories live in
root, ala Rhapsody/OSX.) The biggest issue here is that not all
required applications exist for GNUstep -- unless Etoile has some that
we could modify.
Ok - so do we want to do this through this email, LinkedIn or a
Google group maybe?
I retrict LinkedIn to professional use. Like facebook for work :)
also quite filled nowadays with marketing and propaganda.
While having GNUstep there might help our "business image" home
projects like yours perhaps find a better place elsewhere.
I'd prefer not using Google+. Perhaps facebook is fine, put shiny
pictures in our group :)
However, if you have technical issues, questions and discussion
about the libraries and most applications, just use the Mailing list
here. Most of the Steppers read this place, so it is the place where
you are most likely to get an answer!
I've just subscribed to discuss-gnustep, so I'm happy to keep this here.
Regards,
Paul.
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, (continued)
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, James Carthew, 2015/11/17
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Ivan Vučica, 2015/11/18
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Riccardo Mottola, 2015/11/17
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Liam Proven, 2015/11/17
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Fred Kiefer, 2015/11/18
- Message not available
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, brunosonic, 2015/11/21
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Ivan Vučica, 2015/11/22
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Liam Proven, 2015/11/23
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Alessandro Sangiuliano, 2015/11/17
Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Riccardo Mottola, 2015/11/14
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work,
Paul Ward <=
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Adam S, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Paul Ward, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Adam S, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Paul Ward, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Adam S, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, David Chisnall, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, carlos antonio neira bustos, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, Gaël Elegoët, 2015/11/17
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, R.D. Latimer, 2015/11/16
- Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work, A. Arias, 2015/11/18