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On Oct 11, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Paul Allen wrote:

> I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the  
> 4.x
> userland more like 6.x.

For anyone who really wishes to stick to freebsd 4.x for performance,  
we should refer them to dragonflybsd, which seems to be taking this  
approach.  it was forked from freebsd 4.8 and seems to pretty modern  
in userland.



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