From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 29 0:14: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F308B37B71F for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2T4e5d01602; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103290440.f2T4e5d01602@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Glenn Johnson Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , "David W. Chapman Jr." , Gerhard Sittig , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:27:49 CST." <20010328222749.A3621@gforce.homelan.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:40:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I thought that FreeBSD was associated with BSDi now. I wonder if > something could be worked out because I do not think that BSDi is doing > anything with the MOSIX code. I wouldn't be expecting BSDi to be doing very much of anything with FreeBSD right now. However, this situation has been discussed several times before, and the bottom line is this: The MOSIX developers want (need) money. They will port MOSIX anywhere that you are willing to fund them to, and maintain it for as long as you're willing to fund them to. The MOSIX port to BSD/OS is very out of date, and probably not worth using as a reference anymore. If anyone's going to make this work, they either a) need to find a fair slab of money (I seem to recall the MOSIX people asking for a six-figure sum for the port) or b) a few developers and a deal of free time to do the work. No amount of begging or pleading or saying "it should happen" is going to do it, unfortunately. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message