From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 12 13:31:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38FB37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f6CKVOm90347 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:31:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id WAA74472 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:31:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:31:24 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712223124.U63228@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org>; from bright@sneakerz.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:12:59PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 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