Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:26:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>, howardjp@wam.umd.edu, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <19990814012632.674F01D95@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990813160048.26879C-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>
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On 13 Aug, Bill Studenmund wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate >> changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version >> of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going with Linux, I don't > think it'll be a problem. Now I think people are rushing to conclusions. What I understood from the SGI people I met is that they're planning to make their NT systems to optionally boot to Linux. The other systems will still be running IRIX, which is still under ongoing development. AFAIK, it is not true that IRIX will be replaced by Linux. Then again, this were only two guys from SGI installing our new server... -- Alban Hertroys. http://wit401310.student.utwente.nl == If there is a here-after, then there are much more people dead than alive. Even that much more that the number of living people is insignificant in comparison to the dead ones. Thus it is safe to say that we don't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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