From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 5 18:49:52 1995 Return-Path: chat-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA09427 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 18:49:52 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA09419 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 18:49:41 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA04858; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 09:49:07 +0800 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 09:49:05 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Leo Papandreou cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yahoo is crediting FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: chat-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Leo Papandreou wrote: > > So I was browsing their new interface yesterday, interested in the > details of their new corporate structure, when I came upon mention > that they're using FreeBSD for some of their web servers. Dont know > if this is old news to everyone else but it was pretty cool to see. Where is this information? I looked around briefly and couldn't find any mention of it. Perhaps someone should contact them and find out exactly what kind of hardware they have and the amount of load placed on the FreeBSD servers. I always knew a FreeBSD box made an awesome Web server. ;-) Perhaps we should encourage someone there to participate in some of the mailing lists and tell us of any pitfalls or shortcomings of using FreeBSD on such a heavily-visited site. BTW, I also found this while I was there: * The Way - Monthly mag devoted to DOS, Windows, FreeBSD, and keeping them up to date on the Web. Software updates and patches, Instructions and e-mail support. Imagemaped hotlists and more... (http://theway.com/) I tried the link, but got a network error. Anyone know who these people are? > Another major, MAJOR, shot in the arm has got to be Digicash's > support for FreeBSD in their eCash page. Cant remember the URL but > I urge everyone to search it out, to visit and to download the > software. This IS going to be the Next Big Thing. Anybody with 1/2 > a brain can see some truly revolutionary implications here. http://www.digicash.com/ecash/ecash-home.html > P.S. Wasnt really following the technical details of MCSNet's problems > (couldnt even had i wanted to) and I cant say that Yahoo's setup is > anything like Karl's but seems to me they might have something of in- > terest to teach. Yes, get someone (or two) from Yahoo on these lists. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org