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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:37:56 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PETSc
Message-ID:  <19981002143756.08043@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <13845.8432.160567.743719@avalon.east>; from Tony Kimball on Oct 10, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0500
References:  <13845.8432.160567.743719@avalon.east>

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On Oct 10, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote:
> from http://www.msc.anl.gov:
> 
> We no longer actively support FreeBSD or the Intel Paragon.. If you
> are really need these machines with PETSc and it is important to you,
> please send mail to petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov and we will provide you
> with the bmake files. If you currently use FreeBSD, we highly
> recommend switching to Linux; we plan to provide strong Linux support
> in the future.

They also say:

	One must use gnumake, not the freeBSD make. The freeBSD
	make was heavily modified from real make and is essentially
	worthless; it should not even be called make!

Showing a certain bias (and ignorance) here, aren't they?
--
Jonathan

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