Hi all,
>
> Guess who is SGI's German distributor: SNI ;-)
>
No, that's wrong. SGI has a german branch in Munich, and
without the help of a friend of me at SGI Munich, Linux/MIPS
would never had been possible. But that's nothing official :-)
>
> > They are all highly interested in Linux/MIPS, although they never
> > heard about this port. Actually, they believed that /pub/Linux/ALPHA
>
> Maybe you should spread the word? Here are some suggestions:
>
> * Contact Linux International: =
>
>
> li@li.org
>
> * Contact The Linux Publicity Project:
>
> http://babar.mit.edu/LPP/forms/Mail_Form.html
>
> * Write an article for iX magazine:
>
> Harald Milz will most likely be glad to accept it (besides you will get=
>
> money for it as well ;-).
>
> > means DEC Alpha, not "less than beta". Perhaps Sunsite should rename
> > this directory :-)
>
> That's the reason why U-Mainz has all stuff in arch directories and
> the ALPHA/BETA stuff in a directory called devel.
>
> Maybe a common 'Linux FTP Archive Structure' should be discussed?
>
I think so. The current structures are sometimes confusing, if
not frustrating. But it's actually a bit beyond our scope to
reorganize the whole world :-)
Anyway, thanks for your suggestions. I'll contact the people
you mentioned.
>
> It is indeed! Seems like our RM400 Oracle server is idleing lately, maybe=
>
> i can find something to do for it :-)=3D)
>
Is it a 1 or 2 cpu box? You know, Linux/MIPS has not very much
SMP support :-)
Cheers,
Andy
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