Subject: RE: seti clients going away
To: Tony Hernandez <dbsaint@gru.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/21/2000 09:34:58
	I'm sure they will keep on any unix vendor that supports them
	(Sun etc), plus linux as it is large enough.

	I'm going to email them to complain (politely), and indicate that
	while I do not speak for the project directly :) if they contact
	NetBSD then someone would be delighted to provide any assistance
	needed to ensure NetBSD clients are available. 

		David/absolute

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Tony Hernandez wrote:

> What a bunch of crap! Pretty soon they wont make any for UNIX .. they will just
> make it for Windows NT. It is sad let me tell you.
> 
> cheers
> Tony Hernandez
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 20-Feb-2000 Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > What is the "best" version of the seti client we should use when the native
> > clients are retired?  Thanks -Mike
> > 
> > 
> > from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html
> > 
> > 
> > Client Retirement Plan 
> > 
> > Please note, the following version 1.x clients have too few users to justify
> > the effort to maintain these versions. Therefore, these clients will be
> > retired on or soon after the following dates. We're sorry if one of these is
> > your client version, but we do not have the resources to continue to manage
> > the porting of these clients.
> > 
> > 
> > Retirement Date 
> > year-month-day  Client Name  
> > 
> > 2000-03-05      i386-unknown-netbsd1.4  
> > 2000-03-05      arm-unknown-netbsd1.3I      
> > 2000-03-05      m68k-hp-netbsd1.3.3      
> > 2000-03-05      sparc-unknown-openbsd2.4      
> > 2000-03-05      alpha-unknown-openbsd2.5      
> > 2000-03-05      sparc-unknown-netbsd1.3.3      
> > 2000-03-05      sparc-sun-netbsd1.3.3      
> > 2000-03-05      alpha-unknown-netbsd1.3.3
> 
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> Date: 21-Feb-2000
> Time: 02:04:41
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