From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 18:48:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636EB16A49E for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D572D43D93 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:48:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F7D1A4D8B; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 353285159E; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:48:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Vivek Khera Message-ID: <20061012184845.GA59291@xor.obsecurity.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <08C06C77-F9CB-4545-8A68-9E930E2C58DD@khera.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:48:51 -0000 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: >=20 > On Oct 11, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Paul Allen wrote: >=20 > >I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the =20 > >4.x > >userland more like 6.x. >=20 > For anyone who really wishes to stick to freebsd 4.x for performance, =20 > we should refer them to dragonflybsd, which seems to be taking this =20 > approach. it was forked from freebsd 4.8 and seems to pretty modern =20 > 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 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFLo4NWry0BWjoQKURAtigAJwOCWhaqX8/Gh/X4D2Az90+WQLeEQCgtHc9 /82TZ4o6Aoy8I+rsCKpyBy0= =62k9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--