From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 1 9:20:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5AB9155D8 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13767; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:20:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:20:17 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Don Wilde Cc: "Robert A. Bruce" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <36DAD10C.58F4A985@thuntek.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So one thing the OpenBSD people have done is integrate ARLA; my bet is that if we had integrated AFS support, that would be a great thing to advertise, especially to the college-crowd, given that AFS is used fairly widely at large academic institutions (for the obvious reason). My understanding is also that Arla runs significantly better under BSD than under Linux: at least, every time I talk to Linux people around here, they say "I tried that but it was really unstable" or the like. I installed Arla/XFS from their FTP site (not the port, that is out of date?) and it worked out of the box. I've run into four bugs since then, and they were all fixed within a day. Once this latest one is fixed, I would describe Arla as being extremely stable (for single-realm use). Comments such as "Designed for large-scale distributed systems" (Kerberos, AFS in base package) are sure to sell. Now if only we had a more recent version of Kerberos in the base install (a newer version of KTH, for example). Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message