Re: [gentoo-mips] Indigo2 IP22 [Was LiveCD RC6]

[J. Scott Kasten]

Hmmm...that's unfortunate.  Does anyone know how to contact him?

He hasn't had a chance to learn to hate me yet...maybe I might have some 
luck.

-S-

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>
> Depends on your definition of vaporware.  If "doing 90% of the
> work and then refusing to release the code because he never quite
> finishes any fucking project and is embarrased by his code" qualifies,
> then yes, it is vaporware. This guy has a history of doing exactly
> this, and it is extremely frustrating.  Also, he absolutely refuses to
> provide the patch if you ask him directly.
>
>
>> http://www.tal.org/~milang/o2/
>>
>> Got to this site.  It's mostly O2 stuff, but if you look carefully in
>> his screen shots, there are two that are supposedly of this FB
>> console for extreme.  One shows text, another a floating boxes
>> animation.
>
> That is indeed onion's site.
>
>
>> Go into his kernel directory, and you can download the IP22 kernel
>> ready to run.
>
> Yes, I have tested this kernel and it does indeed work.  Again though,
> no code...
>
>
>> I looked carefully through all his patches and links.  The extreme
>> patch is not to be found.  I don't even see an email for this
>> "milang" fellow. However, interestingly, some of the kernel config
>> files are labled "onion".
>>
>> If we get lucky, the right search terms in the world brain (google)
>> might just yeild fruit.  I'll keep poking at it.
>
> No, it won't.  If there isn't a patch on onion's site, then there isn't
> a patch anywhere (unless by chance somebody else independently wrote a
> patch and then never bothered to announce it to the linux-mips
> community).
>
> -Steve
>
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