luau digest: December 12, 2001

Jimen Ching jching at flex.com
Sat Dec 15 00:16:31 PST 2001


On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Dan George wrote:
>I was just wondering what everyone does here for a living. Do you all
>actually use Linux in a working environment or is it just a hobby?

Hmm, I think this is the first time I saw someone respond to a digest with
qouted text in full.  That was a 30K byte email with a two line response.
Interesting use of bandwidth.  ;-)

Anyway, I use Linux both as a hobby and at work.  At work, I use it as a
development environment to test an embedded application via simulation.
This is not a sanctioned use of Linux at the company though.  Hardly
anyone knows that Linux is being used in this way.

There are other employees at the company that are using Linux and FreeBSD
for embedded work.  But the systems are mainly used as tftp servers and
the such.  The group that could benefit the most from Linux is probably
the hardware group.  They have nearly a dozen Win98/2k systems with dual
processors that perform Place&Route operations.  They use the systems by
sharing each host between the engineers.  Thus, a P&R session is done with
a single system that could take a few hours.  I would think that a cluster
of Linux systems could perform the same P&R operation in mere minutes.
The situation is really rather sad.

--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org



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