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Re: Linux Event notes



GBY>> Linux/Linux and ICQ/Mirabilis - both used the Inet in liao of
GBY>> "real" Marketing and "real" support, thus both of which enjoy
GBY>> an army of enthusiasts they both market and help support both
GBY>> Linux and ICQ for free... Although he did make some

Yeah, the only difference that Linus didn't after it take everything to
himself and sold it to AOL... He instead published it and continues
working on it. 

GBY>> Last, but not least he let everybody know what was running on
GBY>> the server side of ICQ the night it was sold to AOL - Linux
GBY>> ... SHOCK! ;-) (of course, he can't tell us anything about

Very nice of him. He uses Linux for free, but refuses to make working
client for Linux for years. And refuses to publish protocol to help
community to develop it. We should be proud of it, shouldn't we?

GBY>> Some highlights - currently a cluster of 8 Linux boxen on
GBY>> "normal" Intel HW (ok,the NICs are superfast "faster then
GBY>> access to HD" NIC cards) run the entire HUJI computer science
GBY>> computers (- including all the Semester A students discovering
GBY>> fork bombs... gby. ;-) and have abetter uptime then the nearby
GBY>> <UNSPECIFIED COMMERCIAL VENDOR> farm neat it.

Ow! Last year it was BSDI machines... And first year CS students were
enjoying NT/Borland/Visual/whatever last time I looked. That was almost a
year ago. I have to visit there.
What it is "entire HUJI computer science computers" now? There
are many of them. You mean all undergrad UNIX courses, except those for
computer graphics (were made on SGI's)? And with regard to fork bombs -
there was cpu time limits, which lead to Netscape dropping dead every half
an hour if Java was in use. ;)

GBY>> After the good Prof. we had the Compaq marketing drone say nothing for a
GBY>> couple of minutes (he said Comapq will NOT sell Linux preinstalled, just
GBY>> that Compaq will sell hardware supporting of Linux, including supplying
GBY>> device drivers).

Who cares? So others will install it and get the money instead of Compaq
;)
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