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:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> ...I have a whole list of things that I know have to be done to
:> achieve the infrastructure required to form the basis for clustered
:> computing...
:
:If I had the know-how I would be anxious to contribute my time
:free of charge -- in exchange for all of the work your team has
:already donated. Alas, I don't know enough.
:
:Meanwhile, I'm trying to learn enough to help with the pkgsrc
:effort, which is more in keeping with my limited skills.
:
:All progress is made in spurts. Every field of science has always
:obeyed this rule and, IMHO, always will. To expect more of the
:DragonFly project is to invite despair for no reason at all.
:
:This project has attracted the attention of some extremely talented
:people, many of whom are still sitting on the sidelines, waiting to
:see what happens. I predict that one more spurt of progress is all
:that will be needed to draw them in. I will be pleased to buy two
:beers (anywhere in the world) for anyone who can demonstrate that
:my prediction is wrong :o)
Any and all pkgsrc help (and any help in general) is extremely
valuable to the project. If all we did was push towards clustered
computing, everything else that makes an operating system useful
would become stale. Say, oh, like applications! Then we'd have
a clustered OS with no apps!
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
