From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 2 18:53:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10117 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10089 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA09491; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:22:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA07652; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:22:27 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981003112227.S2176@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:22:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Lemon , alk@pobox.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PETSc References: <13845.8432.160567.743719@avalon.east> <19981002143756.08043@right.PCS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981002143756.08043@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:37:56PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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