I'm trying to check on a rumor about Digital and Linux. This surfaced
within the HEP Computing community and I was asked to see what gives.
There are strong proponents at Fermilab for moving to Linux (in some
cases, advocating flushing almost all vendor-supplied UNIX systems).
Alpha systems are a prime candidate for this move. Hence our
interest in these questions:
1. Is Digital considering supporting Linux as a Alpha OS option?
2. If the answer to the above is yes (or maybe), do we assume that
this only applies to workstation-class systems (or would Linux
support SMP on Alpha)?
3. In this context, wither Digital UNIX (once known as OSF/1)?
4. What about DCE (OSF Distributed Computing Environment) and
DCE/DFS (OSF Distributed File System)? Would Digital be likely
to port DCE/DFS to Linux and support it? (Note: we would be
primarily interested in the client end but the server side
might be of interest as well.)
= Dr. Frank J. Nagy CDF/D0 Systems group leader & OSS Associate Dept. Head
= Fermilab Computing Division/Operating Systems Support Dept
= nagy_at_fnal.gov USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/369 Batavia, IL 60510
= ICBM: 41d 50m 14s N, 88d 15m 48s W, 741 ft ASL
Received on Fri May 02 1997 - 19:25:41 NZST