From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 20 08:45:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24662 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 08:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24546 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 08:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA) Received: from Shevchenko.Kiev.UA (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA14464; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:41:51 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <35129C46.CA603FE6@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:41:43 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko Reply-To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua Organization: GlavAPU X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Lee Crites (AEI)" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO (was Re: hi terry) References: <199803201609.IAA29439@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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