RE: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)

2008-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Andy Dills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:29 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd) On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2008-01-03 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Check out the BSDMall - iXSystems: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/community.html?id=QcQ8NEb5mv_arg=mv_argmv_pc=3 They provide all you are looking for in both products and support of the community. On Jan 2, 2008 10:50 AM, Gary Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM, Ted

RE: corporate backers of freebsd

2008-01-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Smithe Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: corporate backers of freebsd Good Day All and Happy New Year, I'm not looking to incite anyone, but

RE: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)

2008-01-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Dills Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:52 PM To: Colin Percival Cc: Pollywog; Giorgos Keramidas; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers

RE: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)

2008-01-02 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I don't. In the entire history of computers every time there has been a horsepower increase, the normal software that people run on the system has bloated to consume all available additional horsepower. Really? So how has the amount of horsepower

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2008-01-02 Thread Gary Smithe
On Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Smithe Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: corporate backers of freebsd

Re: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)

2008-01-02 Thread Karl Triebes
On Jan 2, 2008 9:28 AM, Andy Dills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really think what I'm suggesting is that bad of an idea, help me understand why the CTO of F5 immediately posted asking for a quote on developing this feature? Just for the record, I'm not the same person as the CTO of F5. I

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Kurt Buff
On Dec 31, 2007 10:10 AM, Gary Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen where Cisco and Juniper are using FreeBSD, and assuming there are other big names, do they directly fund or contribute to the community? If memory serves, Yahoo! also is a substantial user of FreeBSD, though I don't have

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread DAve
Gary Smithe wrote: Good Day All and Happy New Year, I'm not looking to incite anyone, but here comes a BSD vs Linux question. Yes, I tried searching the archives and found nothing. I used FreeBSD back in 2000 for a few firewalls, but due to certain influences I switched to Linux after a

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: In short, here's my question: Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into the free community, so that all can benefit from full-time

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 23:14, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: In short, here's my question: Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into the free

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Colin Percival
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk, andre, and myself on our respective sponsored FreeBSD coding

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The support of Isilon Systems for VFS locking, which was then 'ported' back to FreeBSD. Jeff Roberson worked with Isilon Systems to bring VFS locking to FreeBSD, and it is not part of the official kernel ^^^

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 16:57, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk,

Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)

2007-12-31 Thread Andy Dills
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Colin Percival wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk, andre, and myself