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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:54:32 -0500
From: jose <jose@biocserver.BIOC.CWRU.Edu>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: SGI's Linux Contribtions -- new item, URL

hi guys,

first up, thanks for the hard work of putting LWN together each and
every week and the daily updates. :) we all appreciate it sooo much out
here in useland.

ok, so now on to the news item i am passing along: baiscally, i went to
a meeting of the SGI Linux University this week. SGI's efforts at
contributing to Linux are, simply put, going to be huge in at least
three areas: OpenGL, where they are working with various vendors of X
servers and graphics cards and working on high performance OpenGL for
Linux; security, where they are doing an OpenBSD style code review and
contributing software to bring Linux to C2 and B1 grades in the future
(DoD scales); and the third item we heard about in Dayton, OH, was their
clustering technology, bringing Beowulf up to commercial levels for
management and scalability.

they've already comitted to releasing a lot of source, including kernel
patches and applications (ie the kernel crash debugger), and making some
very nice, Linux friendly hardware (ie the 1400L, the 1200L, and so on).
this is really exciting for everyone, i think, and we all stand to
benefit from SGI's research in software and hardware and really get this
pushed forward.

the talks, some of which didn't travel to Dayton, are archived online at
http://www.sgilinux.org/ . needless to say, if the readers can get
there, do so! SGI, known traditionally for being closed source and not
friendly to compiling open source software, is really making a big
effort, and it's going to be huge!

thanks again for everything,

jose nazario                    jose@biocserver.cwru.edu