[LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe development

Scott Henry scotth@sgi.com
18 Jul 2002 10:53:42 -0700


>>>>> "L" == Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> writes:

L> On 2002-07-12T10:53:17,
L>    Dan Freed <dfreed@epicsystems.com> said:

>> Is Failsafe still be developed?  I just went up to the FTP site and the most
>> recent version there is dated Mar. 2001.

L> The answer is two-fold:

L> SGI has frozen FailSafe development on x86/Linux as far as I understand;

Not frozen per-se, just that it is no longer an official project. I
can work on it in my available time. I just haven't had any at all
in the last 3 months.

L> however, they continue to host the CVS and the OSS ftp site. As
L> SGI has made available the Red Hat RPMs and have stopped to do
L> so, this is what is on the ftp site.

I should probably just delete the binary RPMs on oss, and point to suse...

And I, for one, totally appreciate Lars and SuSE picking up the ball
and carrying on.

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