Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:48:30 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Strongarm? Message-ID: <19981103134830.B11452@clear.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199810200922.EAA02322@quark.ChrisBowman.com>; from Christopher R. Bowman on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 04:20:47AM -0400 References: <Your <362A402D.BBB2DD30@ix.netcom.com> <199810190636.AAA20131@harmony.village.org> <199810200922.EAA02322@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
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This is almost entirely off-topic... but not quite :) Re: announcement copied below - a StrongARM RedHat distribution would give some more background reading for FreeBSD porting, with the usual BSD/GPL caveats. There is also a cool idea brewing in the UK to mount 6 or 8 233MHz StrongARM CPUs on a single dual-bus PCI card, each processor with its own RAM and flash for booting: http://www.chaltech.com/ http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sa-beowulf Now _that_ would be a compact platform for clustering - a nasty old P90 motherboard to act as an NFS server and router, and 32 x 233MHz StrongARM processors running IP over the PCI bus. All in a single mini-tower chassis. Mmmmmm. That does smell good :) --- October 27, 1998--Corel Computer and Red Hat Software, Inc. today announced an agreement to bring the Red Hat(r) distribution of Linux to the Corel Computer NetWinder(tm)family of thin-clients and thin-servers. Under the three-year agreement, Red Hat will port Red Hat Linux 5.1 and future releases of the software to the StrongARM(r) processor, the underlying architecture of the NetWinder. ``We are pleased to be able to offer our NetWinder customers the benefits of the award-winning Linux distribution from Red Hat,'' said Ron McNab, vice president and general manager of Corel Computer. ``The partnership will allow us to concentrate on our core business>building one of the most powerful and easy-to-use thin-clients and thin-servers on the market.'' The agreement provides Corel Computer with the right to use the Red Hat distribution of Linux including the Red Hat name and logo on the NetWinder products. Additionally, Corel Computer has the rights to distribute Red Hat CD ROMs and printed documentation manuals to customers. ``I am pleased to announce that Red Hat Linux will soon be available on the exciting new NetWinder platform,'' said Robert Young, president of Red Hat Software. ``The partnership between Corel Computer and Red Hat adds to the growing momentum of Linux.'' Currently the NetWinder family is running a custom Linux distribution based on Red Hat 4.2. When available, NetWinder customers will be able to upgrade their systems by either downloading the operating system from Corel Computer or Red Hat, or by purchasing a CD ROM and manual from either vendor. -- Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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