From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 24 10:24:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D001151EE for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA12905; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 02:24:05 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3799EB41.D54E10C8@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 01:35:13 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Shaffner Cc: Jamie Howard , Radu-Cristian FOTESCU , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > > I almost forgot! The Matrix was done on FreeBSD with a Linux binary > because it performed better. Anyone got the press release? This was *NEVER* stated as reason. It was stated that they doubted they could have had the servers up and running in less time with any other operating system. Alas, since they were used to FreeBSD and not to Linux, that comes as no surprise, don't you think? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message