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Virginia Tech on Your Mac Life

Posted by pudge on Wednesday September 10, 2003 @10:08AM from the all-you-ever-wanted-to-know dept.

YourMacLife writes "On tonight's Your Mac Life, the Dean of Virginia Tech's College of Engineers, Hassan Aref, will talk about the G5 cluster the college is building and what it means to supercomputing. Questions can be sent in advance to onair@yourmaclife.com." See the web site for more details.

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Re:Did BSD make this possible? by Juanvaldes · 2003-09-10 10:58 · Score: 3, Informative

Does this mean they're planning on running some variant of BSD? I would imaging that, for licensing sake, they wouldn't put a stock Mac OS on there (OSX)... would cost "too much" and would provide "more" than they need.
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Re:Did BSD make this possible? by The+Bod · 2003-09-10 14:41 · Score: 4, Informative

Does this mean they're planning on running some variant of BSD?

Yeah, it's called MacOS X. (early version of Panther)

I would imaging that, for licensing sake, they wouldn't put a stock Mac OS on there (OSX)

What? They are buying 1100 machines, they get 1100 copies of MacOS X. What kind of licensing issue are you dreaming of?