From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA69358 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:11:19 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA52158 for linux-list; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:09:56 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from oz.engr.sgi.com (oz.engr.sgi.com [150.166.42.13]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA78479; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:09:54 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from ariel@localhost) by oz.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA23245; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:09:53 -0800 (PST) From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199901151909.LAA23245@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: linus.linux.sgi.com To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI/Linux mailing list) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:09:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, richard@infopact.nl (Richard Hartensveld) In-Reply-To: <369F8C88.39CC6B03@infopact.nl> from "Richard Hartensveld" at Jan 15, 99 10:44:25 am Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi, Looks like I need to give a status update on linus.linux.sgi.com. First, let me tell you all that I'm really taken aback by this situation. I've seen postings on slashdot.org suggesting that SGI has taken this machine down because it is in bed with Microsoft etc. etc. and all kinds of negative speculation and nonsense. I was even contacted by the press on this (could you believe that :-) Let me make it very clear: 1) No one at SGI has taken this service down and guess what: we are going to bring it back up again. 2) The machine itself is not down. The problem is in the routing to the machine and from what I last heard, it seems to be a hardware problem. 3) I talked to people who can help fixing this and they want to help, the only problem they have is that they have other "real-work" priorities which is why it is talking so long to fix it. 4) The timing when this thing decided to break (close to the announcement of the SGI Visual Workstation) is purely coincidental. 5) As far as many of us SGI'ers are concerned, SGI support to Open Source and the Linux community will only grow with time. See for example Jeremy Allison's cool Samba 2.0 announcement yesterday: http://lwn.net/daily/samba2.0.html As some of you know, SGI now is the main founder of the Samba project putting real big money and serious (Origin server) hardware donations to help it grow, improve, and kick butt. Mirroring linus.linux.sgi.com is a good idea and once it is back up I encourage more volunteers to step up and do it. Thanks for your patience and support! -- Peace, Ariel : :Alex deVries wrote: : :> I don't mean to seem like a bother, but what is the deal with :> linus.linux.sgi.com? We really need that machine for development. I think :> it's been a week now. :> :> If SGI isn't going to be able to support that service, that's fine. Could :> you let us know so we can make other arrangements? :> : :I've got a challenge S connected to the internet on a 34mbit connection, :running the (somewhat modificated) hardhat distribution. : :I am more then willing to host the linux/SGI pages on this machine, and put :the machine up :for development if people are intrested. : :I don't know if the www.linux.sgi.com machine is ever going to get back up, :but if it isn't, :this is maybe a solution? : :Greetz, : :Richard : : -- Peace, Ariel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-ID: <199901151909.LAA23245@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: linus.linux.sgi.com Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:09:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <369F8C88.39CC6B03@infopact.nl> from "Richard Hartensveld" at Jan 15, 99 10:44:25 am Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: SGI/Linux mailing list Cc: adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, Richard Hartensveld Message-ID: <19990115190953.U3Ye68sllnPkqlm8LvXxoNchmLdv-Hthd16YpWopEl8@z> Hi, Looks like I need to give a status update on linus.linux.sgi.com. First, let me tell you all that I'm really taken aback by this situation. I've seen postings on slashdot.org suggesting that SGI has taken this machine down because it is in bed with Microsoft etc. etc. and all kinds of negative speculation and nonsense. I was even contacted by the press on this (could you believe that :-) Let me make it very clear: 1) No one at SGI has taken this service down and guess what: we are going to bring it back up again. 2) The machine itself is not down. The problem is in the routing to the machine and from what I last heard, it seems to be a hardware problem. 3) I talked to people who can help fixing this and they want to help, the only problem they have is that they have other "real-work" priorities which is why it is talking so long to fix it. 4) The timing when this thing decided to break (close to the announcement of the SGI Visual Workstation) is purely coincidental. 5) As far as many of us SGI'ers are concerned, SGI support to Open Source and the Linux community will only grow with time. See for example Jeremy Allison's cool Samba 2.0 announcement yesterday: http://lwn.net/daily/samba2.0.html As some of you know, SGI now is the main founder of the Samba project putting real big money and serious (Origin server) hardware donations to help it grow, improve, and kick butt. Mirroring linus.linux.sgi.com is a good idea and once it is back up I encourage more volunteers to step up and do it. Thanks for your patience and support! -- Peace, Ariel : :Alex deVries wrote: : :> I don't mean to seem like a bother, but what is the deal with :> linus.linux.sgi.com? We really need that machine for development. I think :> it's been a week now. :> :> If SGI isn't going to be able to support that service, that's fine. Could :> you let us know so we can make other arrangements? :> : :I've got a challenge S connected to the internet on a 34mbit connection, :running the (somewhat modificated) hardhat distribution. : :I am more then willing to host the linux/SGI pages on this machine, and put :the machine up :for development if people are intrested. : :I don't know if the www.linux.sgi.com machine is ever going to get back up, :but if it isn't, :this is maybe a solution? : :Greetz, : :Richard : : -- Peace, Ariel