[olug] Fw: 5.0 project list ("Help Wanted")

[Phil Brutsche]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 06:39, Brian Roberson wrote:
> FYI..
> 
> From the sounds of it, FreeBSD is really lagging behind.... I know there are
> some *BSD users/bigots out there, does anyone have any feedback as to why
> developement is so far behind?

My take on it: they're trying to do too damn much at one time.

They're trying to introduce FreeBSD on 3 architectures it had never run
on before (PowerPC, UltraSPARC, Itanium) and at least two major kernel
architecture changes.

PowerPC support going from non-existent to full-fledged production-ready
code in under 2 years?  C'mon, guys.  It takes a hell of a lot longer
than that to reconcile all the architecture-specific bits in the core
kernel, especially when the core kernel has *so* many
architecture-specific optimizations from when FreeBSD was only on 32-bit
Intel.

And no, I'm not a *BSD bigot, although I have been known to use FreeBSD
& NetBSD.

> ( Just trying to get some decent threaded
> discusion here !!... and I like flame bait occasionally! )

Oh, goodie!  A flame war!  Good thing I remembered my asbestos
underpants :)

-- 

Phil
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Phil


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