From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 20 2: 1:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F8214CD4 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA94941; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:04:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:04:07 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: stox@enteract.com, Alex Belits , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux In-Reply-To: <199904200352.UAA13432@dingo.cdrom.com> 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, Mike Smith 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. > > I wouldn't mind bending you and your rep's ear about getting some of > this stuff, preferably sooner rather than later. Documentation would > be significant as well... If this is the new SGI x86 box, I have a partially complete arc bootloader which would be useful in trying to get FreeBSD running on it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message