From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 20 8:54:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA64614CEA for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27885; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:52:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <371CA2B1.D2B495F5@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:52:17 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stox@enteract.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: > > > > Well, I'm not so sure about that. What technology has Sun, IBM, or Intel > > > agreed to to donate to Linux right now ? I know Sun has made Java open, > > > but have they donated any technology directly to the O/S ? > > > > Sun gave them a StarFire to play with. Is that enough? How many multi- > > million dollar machines do they need? ;^) > > > > IBM has sent several dozen workstations and a couple of large SMP > > servers to their Linux PPC partner, somewhere in Florida. Motorola > > has 3 engineers doing full-time support for Linux on their CPU boards > > over in Computer Division. > > > > SGI is already dead, they just haven't bothered to fall over yet. > > Their executive staff have been driving them into the ground for > > years, so it's not surprising. > > When I said donating technology, I meant things like XFS ( although SGI > has not stated that this is one of the technologies ). Is IBM going to > donate JFS and the volume management software ? I doubt it, but Sun has apparently given the Linux developers access to Solaris code for StarFire booting. They want Linux to be able to run on a partition on the StarFire, which can split sets of CPUs into a processor partition and run multiple operating systems on the same system. This would allow a StarFire to run both Solaris and Linux at the same time. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message