From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 2:43:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.local.dohd.cx (d0030.dtk.chello.nl [213.46.0.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACAE37BD08 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@dohd.cx) Received: by eeyore.local.dohd.cx (Postfix, from userid 1008) id E36EFBA99; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:43:02 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:43:02 +0100 From: Mark Huizer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/BSDI Merger Message-ID: <20000306114302.A5643@dohd.cx> References: <0e3a01bf866d$4cd75180$0200000a@danco.home> <5s14cs8tlmp2mgnrcchdme6gsgs25ds4sv@4ax.com> <20000305194032.A21819@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.4i In-Reply-To: <20000305194032.A21819@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 07:40:32PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In the last episode (Mar 05), Arthur Kelly said: > > There are numerous features in BSD/OS not found in FreeBSD. > > Multilink PPP, token-ring drivers, SDL T1 card support (which is > > excellent), and others I'm probably forgetting at the moment. > > FreeBSD has excellent multi-link PPP support (both the native user-ppp > and mpd in ports), and has drivers for at least the Olicom TR cards. From a short list of interesting things (which is far from complete), things mentioned in Utrecht were SMP support, perhaps some NDA stuff that might get opensourced, ppp stuff, softupdates stuff, multi-architecture support. And then there is of course the extra input from a group of professional developers, and the merger of a company that can do promotion and distribution (WC), and a company that can do the beloved "Pay me so you can yell at me when it breaks". Sounds great to me. Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message