Hello,
I just happened to upgrade from a 2.4.x kernel to 2.6.12 when it
appeared that the imon/fam combo of IMD fame is apparently not to
be anymore on Linux.
Since I usually try to keep my system from being buried with archaic
solutions (such as dnotify) I wondered what had happened to imon in
particular. Fam is, as of now (Jan 11 23:16:13 CET 2006), not even
accessible from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download.html (HTTP
access permission problem, CVS access works, however) while imon is
only available as a patch to a SUSE Linux 2.4.17 kernel. While I
certainly have no objection to patches, I do regard SUSE-specific
kernels and thereto associated patches definitely to be wrong(tm).
Where there problems in patching plain Linux kernels from www.kernel.org ?
And if so, why aren't those few imon source files made available instead
to have others work on them to produce patches for inclusion into the
kernel (if so desired) ? The concept of imon is worth preserving the
idea and it'd be a shame if imon had to die silently ...
Cheers,
Christian Boehme
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