From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 19 21:15:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.stox.sa.enteract.com (dyn1-tnt1-167.chicago.il.ameritech.net [199.179.160.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6E415335 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@stox.sa.enteract.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.stox.sa.enteract.com [127.0.0.1]) by m4.stox.sa.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA11525; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:12:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" Reply-To: stox@enteract.com To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Alex Belits , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux In-Reply-To: <199904200250.WAA05452@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > Well, I wouldn't be so fast to attack Rick Belluzo. I just saw his keynote > > at COMDEX this evening, and among other things he did announce SGI's > > support of LINUX, and the intent of SGI to donate technology to the Open > > Software Community. So far, I have not seen any other big vendor announce > > the same intent to do so. > > Ahem... > > http://www.opentelecom.org > > Completely ignored (so far) by the *BSD community. It's high time that > FreeBSD assumed its rightful role in the CTI niche. > > Cheers, I stand corrected in this perspective, and agree that this is a role that we have not pursued. I have converted a few members of Bell Labs to FreeBSD ( I actually live about two miles down the street from Bell Labs Naperville ) but have not really put the heat on. Maybe I can convince some of my buddies at the Labs to try an install-a-thon for FreeBSD to get the ball rolling. Interestingly enough, Linus Torvalds was out at Fermilab Sunday evening, and one of the members of the audience from Bell Labs was commenting on two limitations of Linux that were dogging him, 1GB RAM and 2GB filesystem limitations. I think I just might know a solution to his problems. :-> -Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message