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 (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA12718; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:07:21 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA04118 for linux-list; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:51 -0700 Received: from yon.engr.sgi.com (yon.engr.sgi.com [150.166.61.32]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA04069 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:46 -0700 Received: (from ariel@localhost) by yon.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA19946; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:41 -0700 From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199706170106.SAA19946@yon.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Good news: no more begging for HW To: ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (Ralf Baechle) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linux@yon.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <199706170046.CAA17216@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> from "Ralf Baechle" at Jun 17, 97 02:46:04 am Reply-To: ariel@sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk : :Ariel, : :that's great news. Just send all the hardware to me ;-) : :Jokes aside, I was thinking since some time if the FSF wouldn't be a :great place to install some machines. Another suggestion would be :Thomas Bogendoerfer who already wrote a network driver for the Mips :Magnum 4000 and others for Intel/Alpha. I guess he might also be :interested. : If you know interested people in the FSF (real names) please have them email me with a short justification why they want the machines and what will they use them for. Same for Thomas. I cannot promise anything since there may be some oversubscription to the service :-) I think the fairest way would be to publish all these requests on this forum and have the people who care (us) vote on who should get them. I certainly don't want to be the fascist person who decides who gets what. -- Peace, Ariel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-ID: <199706170106.SAA19946@yon.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Good news: no more begging for HW Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199706170046.CAA17216@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> from "Ralf Baechle" at Jun 17, 97 02:46:04 am Reply-To: ariel@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: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux@yon.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970617010641.RN_NOt4_krYzd_ZBlFJjKFCD3pS61az-FBAmNQOdppo@z> : :Ariel, : :that's great news. Just send all the hardware to me ;-) : :Jokes aside, I was thinking since some time if the FSF wouldn't be a :great place to install some machines. Another suggestion would be :Thomas Bogendoerfer who already wrote a network driver for the Mips :Magnum 4000 and others for Intel/Alpha. I guess he might also be :interested. : If you know interested people in the FSF (real names) please have them email me with a short justification why they want the machines and what will they use them for. Same for Thomas. I cannot promise anything since there may be some oversubscription to the service :-) I think the fairest way would be to publish all these requests on this forum and have the people who care (us) vote on who should get them. I certainly don't want to be the fascist person who decides who gets what. -- Peace, Ariel