From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 20:18:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA69C37B52E; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:18:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16734; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:18:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15996; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:18:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:18:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006200318.VAA15996@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Jonathan Lemon , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. In-Reply-To: <200006192311.QAA10064@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <20000619172041.G37084@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200006192311.QAA10064@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, I think I'm looking at a *bigger* picture - what can we do to > make FreeBSD a better platform for real-world applications? For a very common application, yes. WWW serving is not FreeBSD's strong point, IMO. As a matter of fact, I'd venture to guess that FreeBSD is used in more embedded systems as a 'network' platform than it's ever used as a WWW server. However, it just so happens that recently it seems that Yahoo has been pushing *HARD* for alot of WWW-server specific changes, that have little usefulness outside of that specific application. > The ability to send static content in the most efficient manner possible > is a key "big picture" item. You're so tied up in what would be the most > wonderful engineering solution that you're completely ignoring this. You're so wrapped up with building WWW server that you've completely ignored the rest of the developer community, who actually have needs for something *more generic* that you're incapable of seeing the forest since you've gotta cut down that one tree fast, and who gives a rip what anyone else needs to do in the forest... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message