Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:48:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon Message-ID: <20061012184845.GA59291@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <08C06C77-F9CB-4545-8A68-9E930E2C58DD@khera.org> References: <451F6E8E.8020301@freebsd.org> <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20061011151458.L97038@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20061011083021.C2780@treehorn.dfmm.org> <452D6CFD.4040905@FreeBSD.org> <20061011223610.GA30707@riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu> <08C06C77-F9CB-4545-8A68-9E930E2C58DD@khera.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > 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. Well, this is pretty unsubstantiated...it doesn't automatically follow that because they forked from FreeBSD 4 they will retain all the characteristics of FreeBSD 4. After all, they're mostly focusing on reimplementing the changes made in FreeBSD 6 along different (and sometimes the same) lines. Perhaps they'll end up with something better, but that remains to be seen. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFLo4NWry0BWjoQKURAtigAJwOCWhaqX8/Gh/X4D2Az90+WQLeEQCgtHc9 /82TZ4o6Aoy8I+rsCKpyBy0= =62k9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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