The conserver program has fractured into
a number of versions. The home page referenced below seems to be the
latest and most featureful version around, and for July 2004 carries a version number
of “8.1.9”. This is maintained by Bryan Stansell
<bryan@conserver.com>
, who has brought together the work of
many people (listed on his webpage).
The FreeBSD ports collection contains a port for version 8.5 of
conserver at
comms/conserver
.
This seems to be older and less featureful than the 8.1.9
version (in particular, it does not support consoles connected to
terminal server ports and does not support a
conserver.passwd
file), and is written in a fairly
idiosyncratic manner (using a preprocessor to generate C code). Version
8.5 is maintained by Kevin S. Braunsdorf
<ksb+conserver@sa.fedex.com>
who did most of the original
work on conserver,
and whose work Bryan Stansell is building on. The
8.5 version does support one feature not in the 8.1.9 version
(controlling power to remote machines via a specific serial-interfaced
power controller hardware).
Beginning with December 2001, Brian's version (currently 8.1.9) is
also presented in ports collection at
comms/conserver-com
. We therefore
recommend you to use this version as it is much more appropriate for
console server building.
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