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

[Aaron Grothe]

Phil Brutsche wrote:

> 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)

> 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.

I thought Apple's Darwin (Core of Mac OS X) was initially based on netbsd.  Isn't
it supposed to be migrating to freebsd.  So hopefully, support for PowerPC is
being supported by Apple in some capacity, I believe they recently hired the main
hacker for the freebsd project.

Given that it does make me scratch my head on why they feel the need to support
UltraSparc (note I like sun's architecture but I have only run Solaris on it).

Regards,

Aaron
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