[Freehoo-devel] Re: freeipmi and GNU

[Anand Babu]

OOPS!,
I did not read the mail carefully.

FreeIPMI and Freehoo are completely different project. 
Freehoo is a messenger and FreeIPMI is platform management system.

I thought we restarted the freehoo evaluation. I'm sorry.

FreeIPMI is under active development with support from
CaliforniaDigital, LLNL, Intel and Cyclades. It will be the management
backbone for the upcoming 4096 Itanium2 64 bit processors super
computer for LLNL. We have not made any public releases yet. But we
are on a aggressive schedule to make a complete production release in
one month.

I will re-submit for FreeIPMI again in a separate mail.

Thanks
-ab


Hugo Gayosso <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Anand!
>
> I feel some kind of confusion here (at least, I am confused), what is
> the relationship between freeipmi and freehoo?
>
> As far as I remember the evaluation of 'freehoo' was pending on the
> return of the evaluator, and the questionnaire was intended for
> freeipmi.
>
> Or perhaps 'freehoo' became 'freeipmi' or viceversa?
>
> Please clarify.
>
> Anand Babu <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hugo Gayosso <address@hidden> writes:
>> > Questionnaire
>> > =============
>> >
>> > * General Information
>> > ** Package name and version:
>> freehoo 2.0.0
>> 
>> > ** Author <Email>:
>> Anand Babu address@hidden 
>> 
>> > ** URL to home page (if any):
>> http://www.nongnu.org/freehoo/
>> 
>> > ** URL to sources (if any):
>> https://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=freehoo
>> 
>> > ** Brief description of the package:
>> Freehoo is a console based messenger for yahoo instant messenger
>> protocol. It has a neat context sensitive readline based user
>> interface. Freehoo is highly extensible with GNU's Ubiquitous
>> Intelligent Language for Extensions called Guile. Most of the core
>> functionalities are already written as extensions in Scheme.
>> 
>> > * Code
>> > ** Dependencies:
>> >     Please list the package's dependencies (source language, libraries, 
>> > etc.).
>>       libguile
>>       libreadline
>>       libyahoo2 (GNU GPL, http://libyahoo2.sf.net)
>> 
>> > ** Configuration & compilation:
>> >     It might or might not use Autoconf/Automake, but it should meet GNU
>> >     Standards.  See http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_48.html.
>> Yes it uses GNU Autoconf/Automake
>> 
>> > ** Documentation:
>> >     We recommend using Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
>> >     for documentation, and writing both reference and tutorial
>> >     information in the same manual.  Please see
>> >     http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_32.html.
>> Yes it uses GNU Texinfo
>> 
>> > * Licensing:
>> >    This is crucial.  Both the software itself *and all dependencies*
>> >    (third-party libraries, etc.) must be free software in order to be
>> >    included in GNU.  
>> >    
>> >    Please see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a
>> >    practical guide to which licenses are free (for GNU's purposes) and
>> >    which are not.  Please give specific url's to any licenses involved
>> >    that are not listed on that page.
>> Freehoo and all its dependencies are licensed under GNU GPL
>> 
>> > * Similar projects:
>> >    Please search at least the
>> >    Free Software Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/) 
>> >    and savannah.gnu.org (http://savannah.gnu.org/search/)
>> >    for projects similar to yours.  If any exist,
>> >    please explain what motivated you to write yours and what the
>> >    principal differences are.
>> Freehoo was previously known as GNUYahoo. The old name explains why
>> we needed to change the name. Before I started Freehoo, There was only
>> one client called Ariyahoo. I started patching it heavily, but at one
>> point it became impossible to maintain it further, because of it poor
>> design and coding standards. Ariyahoo is not maintained any more.
>> 
>> There are other GUI based messengers available for Yahoo.
>> Ayttm
>> Everybuddy
>> Fire
>> KYIM
>> Yahoo pager (BeOS)
>> Qazoo (Sharp Zaurus)
>> 
>> 
>> I also found one more in the savannah directory: 
>> curphoo written in python with ncurses interface. They haven't
>> released anything yet.
>> 
>> AFIAK Freehoo is the only console based messenger with most
>> features, stability and users. Its already a part of 
>> Debian GNU/Linux (sid)
>> 
>> -- 
>>  _.|_ 
>> (_||_)
>> Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>
>> 
>> 
>
> -- 
> Hugo Gayosso
> GNU Software Evaluators Coordinator
> http://www.gnu.org

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