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[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > BTW, in realizing their gross incompetance in posting that "technical
> > whitepaper" they pulled it from the site.
> >
> > Unfortunately, for them, i've archived the original:
> > http://linux-sxs.org/~netllama/unitedlinuxwhitepaper.pdf
> >
> > Read it and laugh, and then cry.  "Please take us seriously, even though
> > we're 'always confused with NIS' and watch us 'Write something about how
> > serious we are, and why big customers should go for it'"
> >
> I sure hope it's not the final version. Take a look at the file system
> types listed. ext2, ext3, reiser and jfs. They support efs but not xfs
> in "other" file systems? Jesus, efs hasn't been used since IRIX 5.2!

Oh, it wasn't the final.  A slightly less embarassing version was posted
shortly after I pointed out all the mistakes.  And then one of the JFS
developers went & pointed out all the technical mistakes on just the
Filessytem
section.

As he put it "i hope that the engineering is far better than the contents
of this paper".

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