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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:12:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.sa.enteract.com>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net
Subject:   Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904191106300.11472-100000@m4.stox.sa.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904200250.WAA05452@bellsouth.net>

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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote:

> > Well, I wouldn't be so fast to attack Rick Belluzo. I just saw his keynote
> > at COMDEX this evening, and among other things he did announce SGI's
> > support of LINUX, and the intent of SGI to donate technology to the Open
> > Software Community. So far, I have not seen any other big vendor announce
> > the same intent to do so.
> 
> Ahem...
> 
> http://www.opentelecom.org
> 
> Completely ignored (so far) by the *BSD community.  It's high time that
> FreeBSD assumed its rightful role in the CTI niche.
> 
> Cheers,

I stand corrected in this perspective, and agree that this is a role that
we have not pursued. I have converted a few members of Bell Labs to
FreeBSD ( I actually live about two miles down the street from Bell Labs
Naperville ) but have not really put the heat on. Maybe I can convince
some of my buddies at the Labs to try an install-a-thon for FreeBSD to
get the ball rolling. Interestingly enough, Linus Torvalds was out at
Fermilab Sunday evening, and one of the members of the audience from Bell
Labs was commenting on two limitations of Linux that were dogging him, 1GB
RAM and 2GB filesystem limitations. I think I just might know a solution
to his problems. :->

-Ken



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