Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:22:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, alk@pobox.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PETSc Message-ID: <19981003112227.S2176@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981002143756.08043@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:37:56PM -0500 References: <13845.8432.160567.743719@avalon.east> <19981002143756.08043@right.PCS>
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On Friday, 2 October 1998 at 14:37:56 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Oct 10, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote: >> from http://www.msc.anl.gov: >> >> We no longer actively support FreeBSD or the Intel Paragon.. If you >> are really need these machines with PETSc and it is important to you, >> please send mail to petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov and we will provide you >> with the bmake files. If you currently use FreeBSD, we highly >> recommend switching to Linux; we plan to provide strong Linux support >> in the future. > > They also say: > > One must use gnumake, not the freeBSD make. The freeBSD > make was heavily modified from real make and is essentially > worthless; it should not even be called make! > > Showing a certain bias (and ignorance) here, aren't they? Well, you must be looking at a whole different web. My DNS can't find www.msc.anl.gov, so I tried http://www.mcs.anl.gov. But there's no mention of FreeBSD on that page. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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