Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:31:24 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712223124.U63228@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org>; from bright@sneakerz.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:12:59PM -0500 References: <bulk.72438.20010711142307@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107121211060.35209-100000@www.bloodletting.com> <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org>
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Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 12, 2001 at 15:12:59: > > No, they don't run FreeBSD. They were interested in having someone > like me or the dozen of other FreeBSD kernel developers to turn to > for help as well as the superior debugging features of FreeBSD, > that's why I did the setup for them. > > However in the end they chose to stay with Linux, I don't think > much actual evaluation was really done, basically one day someone > needed that rack running linnex so they spammed over it. > > It was fun, but we missed. Ah. Too bad.. Google *is* fast, and pretty reliable, and if they have lots of linux-specific hacks maybe it's not a good idea for them to change. But if they had been FreeBSD to begin with, I wonder whether they'd need 6000 machines... R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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