Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:58:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WindRiver takeover. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104042249160.76136-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <200104050056.f350uIq35421@harmony.village.org>
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It is an interesting time for FreeBSD. Perhaps it is a good time for me to branch off my own version and call it BrennanBSD... and in 5 years the motto could be... "5 years without any source code changes" I think FreeBSD 4.2 is very solid and very close to perfect. The OpenSSH and OpenSSL integration along with several of the VM optimizations make me quite happy to run it on the systems I manage. I read that Perl 5.6 is going to be the default perl for 4.3 RELEASE and perhaps that is enough to get me to upgrade, but I would hate to reboot my personal server. http://home.offwhite.net/status.html It has been up for over 75 days since I put it in place and I am going to shoot for 2 years with it. After that I may go ahead with another hardware upgrade. I am anxious to see benchmarks between FreeBSD 4.0R against the future release of FreeBSD 5.0 with all it's enhancements borrowed from the BSDi codebase. I am unsure what this new company can offer in terms of adding new features to the kernel and core system, but with the core development team guiding the way, I am sure the quality of the FreeBSD platform will only improve. Any company smart enough to choose to back FreeBSD should be intelligent enough to want it to continue as it has been all this time. Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator my projects: home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting) www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search) On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010405024028.02477170@mail.Go2France.com> Len Conrad writes: > : >but will not likely be taking over the functions that > : >core and the committers have traditionally done in the project. > : > : Can you remove that "likely", Warner? Your reassurance is much more > : reassuring without it. > > You are right. You can take the likely out as far as I'm concerned. > The project itself is much bigger than any one company. WRS will be > able to spend money to buy a few bodies for critical parts of the > system, but they won't be able to change major aspects of the project > without core's approval. Talking with jkh, I get the sense that WRS > knows that he knows how to run an open source division and they will > be leaving much of the day to day sorts of things up to him. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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