Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:41:43 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO (was Re: hi terry) Message-ID: <35129C46.CA603FE6@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <199803201609.IAA29439@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > ? ? But the industry is changing quite rapidly. I believe we need to > ? ? step back and see where it is going and make some strategic > ? ? decisions about where we want to see FreeBSD go. We have > ? ? stability and security pretty well taken care of. I'm seeing > ? ? some positive comments about smp in 3.0. But we might want to > ? ? see about clustering and some fault-tolerant extensions. If we > ? > ? Heh. I think we first mentioned clustering as something on FreeBSD's > ? wishlist as early as 1995 or so. The problem here is not in finding > ? enough people to say "yeah, clustering is cool!", the problem here is > ? in finding people to say "clustering is cool, please check out my > ? FreeBSD implementation!" :-( > > No, the problem is finding people to say "wow, I have checked out this > FreeBSD clustering implementation and I think it ?verb?s". > > Ron Minnich has been trying to shove his more-than-functional clustering > implementation into our laps for the last two or three years now. I > can hardly blame the guy for feeling distinctly ignored. > Hmm. I know nothing about this and I'm ready to try this. Can I see http://www.freebsd.org/cluster in near future ? > If we have someone that actually feels "proactive" about clustering, > then I suggest they approach Ron solicitously and get something > happening. 8) > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- @= //RSSH mailto:Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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