From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 17:03:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA29805 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29799 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA04827; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:02:58 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199712040102.TAA04827@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-Reply-To: <348708ea.1780558@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Dec 4, 97 01:41:43 am" To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:02:58 -0600 (CST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:43:11 -0600 (CST), Kevin Day > wrote: > > >But you are correct in assuming that you are going to lose market share by > >waiting. > > How can you even call it a "market" when it's free? Walnut Creek is > never going to become a Microsoft by selling FreeBSD CD-ROMs for $39, > even if they sell a blue million of 'em. > No. I'm not talking about Walnut Creek. :) I just mean that if there wasn't a SMP kernel available anywhere, I would have moved to Linux, and probably switched all my machines. If I didn't feel comfortable paying with experimental software, I wouldn't have tried at all, and definately gone with Linux. I'm saying that I think it would be a shame to lose FreeBSD users because of a lack of features that other OS's have, and no-one has even given a rough date that these features will be available. Kevin