From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 13:08:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB3916A46C for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918F813C461 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0F6208C; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:08:02 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40115208A; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:08:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2093B844AF; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:08:02 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "william wong" References: <84a208a0801232306k6a34134aqd549a1ba2160fe41@mail.gmail.com> <86bq7bwlot.fsf@ds4.des.no> <84a208a0801240456q3154de92me73e846df84d587a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:08:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <84a208a0801240456q3154de92me73e846df84d587a@mail.gmail.com> (william wong's message of "Thu\, 24 Jan 2008 20\:56\:49 +0800") Message-ID: <86prvrv0b1.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:08:10 -0000 "william wong" writes: > Thanks for enlightening me on different aspects. Actually I found there a= re > many exciting network stack projects/overhaul happening in FreeBSD 8. I j= ust > want to gear up myself and see what I can do. I have got 6.3 installed and > tweaking some of the kernel modification and compilation process so that i > can get myself acquainted to the software development process. You should really, really upgrade to 7. Nobody is doing any serious work on 6 (beyond merging bug fixes back from 7); all the exciting work happens in 8, and kernel patches against 8 will very rarely apply cleanly to 6. > It seems that Juniper favors the even number FreeBSD's. Only because 5 was a dog. They probably stuck with 4 for a while, then switched to 6 once they had ascertained that it was significantly more stable than 5. I would be surprised if they skipped 7. > So get to know about FB8 could be ahead of them :) I very much doubt it. Juniper employs several veteran FreeBSD developers (and so does Cisco, for that matter). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no