Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:27:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux |
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Jeff,
Have you been in the bottle again? If this is not a joke, it is not funny.
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to resource > constraints and short term schedules, the Open Source NDS and Open > Source NTFS File System projects are being withdrawn from the Linux > Initiative. These projects will be MANOS only, and any interested party > is free to acquire the code and back port them into Linux, though the > networking architectures are profoundly different between the two. The > lack of a Kernel Debugger and other basic kernel level facilities on > Linux make TRG's job about 20 times harder on Linux and take almost 10 > times as long as is possible on NT, NetWare, or MANOS to develop > software asa result ofthis. To date, TRG has invested over > $1,500,000.00 on Linux development projects enabling NetWare-to-Linux > interoperability so we feel like we have contributed erstwhile resources > to date. Downloads of NWFS has exceeded 900,000 copies to date from > TRG's website. > > TRG will continue to support NWFS on Linux as a migration file system > for NetWare-to-Linux Migration, however, all new development will be on > the MANOS platform only. M2FS for Linux will be available in binary > form only for those interested parties. A press release will be sent on > Monday informing the industry that TRG has withdrawn these projects in > Open Source form on Linux and citing the reasons for this decision. > > As for the reasons behind this decision, TRG has attempted to be an > contributing member of Linux for quite some time, however, the > architecture of Linux is unnatural to Novell's and Microsoft's > technologies and Linux is at present incapable of providing the same > level of Networking capability available with Windows 2000 or NetWare to > enterprise customers. NetWare routinely supports upwards of 2000 users > per server for file and print. Linux with it's current level of > development has trouble with configurations of more than 100 users via > MARS-NWE or SAMBA in our tests. TRG's MANOS source code and components > are freely available to the Linux community, and TRG has no objection to > continued participation with the Linux Community and use of any of it's > source code in Linux projects. > > Very Truly Yours, > > Jeff Merkey > CEO, TRG > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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