Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:06:04 +1000 From: "Jacob A. Hart" <c9710216@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au> To: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010715130604.A7370@carcass.au.hartware.com> In-Reply-To: <20010713123701.E70314@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from johann@egenetics.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:37:01PM %2B0200 References: <bulk.72438.20010711142307@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107121211060.35209-100000@www.bloodletting.com> <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712223124.U63228@lpt.ens.fr> <"from rsidd"@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20010713123701.E70314@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:37:01PM +0200, Johann Visagie wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan on 2001-07-12 (Thu) at 22:31:24 +0200: > > > > Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 12, 2001 at 15:12:59: > > > > > > It was fun, but we missed. > > > > Ah. Too bad.. > > > > Google *is* fast, and pretty reliable, and if they have lots of > > linux-specific hacks maybe it's not a good idea for them to change. > > But if they had been FreeBSD to begin with, I wonder whether > > they'd need 6000 machines... > > How widely is it known that FAST's alltheweb.com search engine runs on > FreeBSD? (Is this even still the case? After their recent site redesign I > can't find their FAQ file in which this fact used to be mentioned.) From http://www.alltheweb.com/help/FAQ_webmaster.html : What platform does AllTheWeb Web Search run on? AllTheWeb Web Search runs on standard, cost-efficient high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage subsystems. These servers run the FreeBSD operating system. -- Jacob A. Hart <c9710216@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au> Powered by: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 10 21:47:14 EST 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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