Re: closure of the linux areas on ftp.dstc.edu.au

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From: David Gibson
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 00:00

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Robert Brockway (robert@zen.humbug.org.au) wrote:
: Jason Stokes (j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au) wrote:
: : In article <5546lc$9v0@news.unimelb.EDU.AU>, lb@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU
: : (Lindsay Berge) wrote:
: : : I have heard that the ANU is no longer going to fund sunsite.anu.edu.au
: : : which will increase the costs for all the other Universities as software
: : : is brought in from the US separately for each user. 
: : 
: : The ANU doesn't fund sunsite - Sun does.  Hence the name.

: Not afaik.  I believe it is called suniste because it is a mirror of
: sunsite.unc.edu.
: Cheers,

	No, it's called sunsite because it's a SunSITE. Sun at least
provides the hardware. Whether they provide any other funding I'm not sure.
They don't provide all the funding though - ANU provides some.

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From: david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au (David Gibson)
Subject: Re: closure of the linux areas on ftp.dstc.edu.au
Date: 1996/11/01
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