From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 14 20: 6:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail005.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail005.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6139937B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obituary@dingoblue.net.au) Received: from carcass.au.hartware.com (newax1-094.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.164.94]) by mail005.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6F36AQ28813; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:06:11 +1000 Received: (from obituary@localhost) by carcass.au.hartware.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6F364M07411; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:06:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from obituary) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:06:04 +1000 From: "Jacob A. Hart" To: Johann Visagie Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Alfred Perlstein , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010715130604.A7370@carcass.au.hartware.com> References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712223124.U63228@lpt.ens.fr> <"from rsidd"@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20010713123701.E70314@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010713123701.E70314@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from johann@egenetics.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:37:01PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:37:01PM +0200, Johann Visagie wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan on 2001-07-12 (Thu) at 22:31:24 +0200: > > > > Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 12, 2001 at 15:12:59: > > > > > > 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... > > How widely is it known that FAST's alltheweb.com search engine runs on > FreeBSD? (Is this even still the case? After their recent site redesign I > can't find their FAQ file in which this fact used to be mentioned.) From http://www.alltheweb.com/help/FAQ_webmaster.html : What platform does AllTheWeb Web Search run on? AllTheWeb Web Search runs on standard, cost-efficient high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage subsystems. These servers run the FreeBSD operating system. -- Jacob A. Hart Powered by: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 10 21:47:14 EST 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message