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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (1481)	4/25/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2615

Do you suppose you could ask someone to call someone to put a bug in the ear of someone who might just tell someone to get them to reveal who knows how to do this and perhaps they could publish the info on the net sometime. Please note that this information does not have to reveal the identity, day job, or religious affiliation of the respondent. ... Perhaps his OS centric habits, though. AGP. Cool. I note that Windows 98 IS the bug fix of Windows 95 problems. It occurred to me in passing that installing SCSI, and some software and hardware AND unpgrading is actually easier in Linux than in Windows. It also forces your to organize your files so you know where they are. I also not that Windows is getting some features that Linux has, like the ability to fix disk problems on startup. I don't know if they have automatic disk defragmenting yet though. Got Applix installed, though not printing pretty yet. Anybody got scanner know how for Linux? I am a little bit nonplussed about the admonition in some documentation to throw away the proprietary interface card and drive the scanner with SCSI. Can you do this? I have an old ISIS scanner with a card and I wonder how one goes about this. EC<:-}

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (1481)	4/25/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

FreeBSD Press Releases: The Matrix FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects advocacy.freebsd.org Concord, CA, April 22, 1999: 32 Dual-Processor FreeBSD systems were used to generate a large number of special effects in the cutting edge Warner Brothers film, The Matrix. Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm. Charles Henrich, the senior systems administrator at Manex, says, "We came to a point in the production where we realized we just did not have enough computing power on our existing SGI infrastructure to get through the 3-D intensive sequences. It was at that point we decided on going with a FreeBSD based solution, due to the ability to get the hardware quickly as well as the reliability and ease of administration that FreeBSD provides us. Working with Dell, we purchased 32 of these systems on a Wednesday, and had them rendering in production by Saturday afternoon. It was truly an amazing effort on everyone's part, and I don't believe it would've been possible had we chosen to go with any other Operating System solution." Thanks again to slashdot.org