Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Hacker
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I'm starting to imagine the size of the Lisp image I could run on a cluster like the kind being discussed ;-) Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box. Go and wath out your mouth with thoap! ;-) Bill

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Hacker
Matthew Dillon wrote: :On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :: that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my :: project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done :: by our relatively small community. I truely

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-02 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 05:54:14PM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : I'm starting to imagine the size of the Lisp image I could run on a cluster : like the kind being discussed ;-) : : Jonathon McKitrick : -- : My other computer is your Windows box. : : Go and wath

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-01 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my : project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done : by our relatively small community. I truely

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :: that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my :: project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done :: by our relatively small community. I truely appreciate that effort ::

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-01 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Fri, September 1, 2006 12:45 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: So what can the average user do ? * The average user can support a third party project by providing cpu, memory, and storage resources to that project. (clearly there are security issues involved, but even so

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-01 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I'm starting to imagine the size of the Lisp image I could run on a cluster like the kind being discussed ;-) Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box.

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-01 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :: that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my :: project goals but instead are directly associated with work being

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello, : :I found this message on the NetBSD mailing list and it :can be quite interesting for reading. It says about :negative stuff in the NetBSD project and manners for :fixing the problems of the project. : :I hope it can be useful for read to others, for me is :quite interesting. He

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-08-31 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my : project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done : by our relatively small community. I truely appreciate that effort :

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-08-31 Thread walt
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my : project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done : by our relatively small community. I truely

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-08-31 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Thu, August 31, 2006 3:42 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Big question: after all the work that will go into the clustering, other than scientific research, what will the average user be able to use such advanced capability for? Lots. To get to a single system image, the operating system