Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nuug!ifi!magnar From: magnar@sfd.uit.no (Magnar Antonsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP-UX: unacceptable [Was: root-over-nfs under HP-UX 6.5] Message-ID: <2381@ifi.uio.no> Date: 28 Nov 89 00:29:41 GMT References: <2130002@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM> Sender: news@ifi.uio.no Reply-To: magnar@sfd.uit.no (Magnar Antonsen) Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway Lines: 28 In article 1786 Tai Jin writes: >contribute to an archive near you. If you already have an archive, please >let everyone know about it. One I know about is the University of Tromsoe >(sfd.uit.no) and another is the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (I don't >know the domain name for this one, but Bo Thide has posted here many times). University of Tromsoe (sfd.uit.no) has offered anonymous FTP the last year from hpserv1@sfd.uit.no. The address is 128.39.60.50. Our site contains public domain software picked up from sites all over the world in addition to SW developed by ourself. The Computer Science Dept. have 65 9000/3xx computers and most of the software are tested and runs at least on this platform (HP workstations since 87). In particular, we tries to offer the latest versions in Gnu software from Free Software Foundation. At present we have approximately 100 Mbyte available for anonymous FTP. We are interested in distributing contributed software from HP, we have the disk capacity available, and have been offering this kind of service for some time. There is obvious a need for this kind of efficient distribution to high-tech HP customer with access to the Internet. HP probably needs several sites like this; at least one on each side of the Atlantic. Univ. of Tromsoe would be suited to distribute software to the European HP customer. Several articles have pointed out the need for and the advantages of a service like this, and have been giving several arguments why this is needed. Someone in HP should decide how they will respond to these ideas.