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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:00:40 +1000
From:      "John Saunders" <john@nlc.net.au>
To:        <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Ripped off by SETI@HOME
Message-ID:  <013601bfdb4e$6a20a6c0$4ab511cb@vecommerce.com.au>

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I just took at look at the SETI@HOME results for Operating Systems.
The highest FreeBSD entry is number 22 which is for FreeBSD 3.2 with
237731 packets.

However I realised that if you add up all of the different versions of
FreeBSD you get a result of 791878 packets which would put us in 15th
position.

The Windows people have it over us because they haven't had an operating
system update in a few years. The Linux crowd has got wise and called
their version "linux-gnu", note the absence of a version number. What we
need to do is to petition SETI to use "freebsd-elf" or "freebsd-aout".
Otherwise we will be starting from 0 packets when the next SETI client
comes out compiled for version 3.4.

Cheers.
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