Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 01:11:04 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgrade article Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990502010424.7628c-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199905020515.WAA27861@implode.root.com>
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On Sat, 1 May 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >On Saturday, 1 May 1999 at 21:42:48 -0700, David Greenman wrote: > >>> There's an article about the recent upgrade of ftp.cdrom.com on Slashdot at > >>> http://slashdot.org/articles/99/05/01/0630216.shtml - interesting selection of > >>> comments, the general mood seems to be a lot of miffed Linux weenies that > >>> their OS can't compete in the high end. There's a lot of pro-FreeBSD comments, > >>> but which tend to the aggressive side a bit. > >> > >> I'm preparing a formal press release about the upgrade that should be > >> released on Monday. > > > >So how much data is it transferring now? > > Imagine a daily traffic graph with a straight line at 98Mbps. Not knowing if you even run X, or have libs installed on ftp.cdrom.com... put perhaps even a screen-shot of your desktop with top, systat, iostat, netstat running in several different Xterms..... running on ftp.cdrom.com, we could start the "FreeBSD desktops page". cool icons are one thing, but "the power to serve" shown via these utilities would be awesome... please please please please... :) (it would hopefully find itself somewhere on advocacy.freebsd.org)... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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