From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 29 0:28:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C3837B725; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14iXmz-0001bG-00; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:28:17 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 14iXmy-0003xY-00; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:28:16 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: Mike Smith Cc: Glenn Johnson , "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 20:40:05 -0800 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:28:16 +0200 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG as usual you are very well informed, In message <200103290440.f2T4e5d01602@mass.dis.org>you write: }> 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. } it's based on BSD/OS 3.0, and it can't be distributed. }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) } I just spoke to the principal developer/owner of MOSIX, and he confirmed all the above. Basicaly, it has to be re-written, and he wants his team to be remunerated. danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message