huskyintro
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This document is a small FAQ to the Husky-Project. Written because the FAQ from Markus Mandalka is a little outdated, very small and only in German. (Yes, my first start with this was in german too, but now it is in (bad) english :) ).

How to read this FAQ.
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 1. Turn on your brain.

 2. Turn on your eyes.

 3. Go on and read it.

But you should know some things:

If i say Husky i usually mean the whole Project, including all Software and all Developers. Hmm, there is more but i dont remember now :)

General Questions about Husky and this FAQ.
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Where to get the newest Version of this Document ?
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There are many ways to get the newest Version of the FAQ.

Using CVS
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If you have access to the Husky CVS Server then you should take a look at the huskybse-Directory.

Using the Web.
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The latest and greatest Version is always available via Web-CVS for Husky (http://cvs.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/cvs2). Just download the latest huskybse*.tar.gz

[Debian]: Using apt-get
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Not yet available, but in the near future their will be a Debian-Package with all available Doku and example Configurations for Husky. This FAQ is included there.

How to contact the Author(s) ?
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You can reach me via Fidonet at 2:2435/109 or in the Echo FIDOSOFT.HUSKY. You can send a email to Joerg Jaspert.

How to contribute to this FAQ ?
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If you have write-access to the Husky CVS Server just use this. If not send an email to the author(s). Look at the previous question. .

How to contribute to one of the Programs in Husky ?
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At the very first make sure that you are using the latest version of the program. A patch to a 2 Year old version is not very useful. :)

After this take a look at the Team-Page available at Husky Team (http://husky.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/team.html) to find the email of the developer for this program. Then use gnudiff or something similar to create a diff-file and send this with a few words to the developer.

If you have more than one patch or you want to do more work with some programs you should write a email to Tobias Ernst and ask for write-Access to the cvs-Server.

What is the Husky-Project ?
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The goal of this project is to develop a complete freeware suite of Fidonet applications, running under Linux and other multitasking/multiuser systems. The suite should be comparable to now existing (and partly commercial) OS/2 systems.

Most of the software is GPLed unless otherwise specified.

To keep the configuration simple and reliable, all applications should use one set of configuration-files.

On which Systems does Husky works ?
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It works on every System you could get the source compiled with gcc. I think it will work on every system which has a gcc, but i only have a Debian GNU/Linux on x86-Hardware.