From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 9 12:57:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05993 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05965; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA25439; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA02089; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:52:48 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id NAA22208; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:52:47 -0600 Message-ID: <361E698F.A03C843E@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 13:52:47 -0600 From: Wes Peters Reply-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson CC: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , "James D. Butt" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <199810041551.IAA21120@hub.freebsd.org> <361DFB7D.4EF2D787@internationalschool.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > If anything things like this should be a clue to anyone that microsoft > > > stuff is bad... > > > > > > As far as I am concerned anyone staying with the NT platform after reading > > > > much better: take a look at this link: > > http://www.microsoft.com/misc/backstage/solutions.htm > > > > they claim "More than 6 Gigabytes (GB) of successful downloads a day" > > I wonder if a web page where you get the top bar and nothing else counts as a > successful download? I can't see how they would tell the difference! > > I like this bit on the column_t2_1 page... > > Wanke: We needed to figure out why our servers were crashing, which > requires them to be taken offline for debugging. We oughtta write up a FreeBSD/Walnut Creek version of this page and shout it's existance from the highest treetops. Sounds like a job for "The Advocates," thus I've cc'd them and directed followups there. I'm game to do the writing, if someone can help me with statistics. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message