From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 00:59:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB69737B401 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from juice.thebigchoice.com (pc1-nott2-3-cust18.nott.cable.ntl.com [80.4.204.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1727A43F93 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@thebigchoice.com) Received: (qmail 49712 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2003 07:59:24 -0000 Received: from localhost.proweb.net (HELO thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by juice.thebigchoice.com with SMTP; 10 Aug 2003 07:59:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3F35FB5C.8050205@thebigchoice.com> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 08:59:24 +0100 From: Matt Heath User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <200308090347.55304.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200308090347.55304.racerx@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org cc: misc@openbsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Think outside of the box (Gawd, I hate that term) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:59:23 -0000 don't worry, we're working on it http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ Theo occasionally pops by to comp.os.plan9 (last time to "discuss" licences) (he coverts the plan9 compilers) plan9 is an OS research platform some of it's tools have been kind of back-ported to the unix likes (wily, 9wm) I use plan9 as my development platform as it is a delight to use. Don't expect eye candy, it is an OS to get work done. m >Guys (and gals) > > As great as the *BSD's are - why are we not thinking ahead of the curve? >Outside of the box? What do I mean? Well - why not develope our OS's to run >on an arch. that isn't out yet - MAKE that new arch. just like Gates did so >many years ago. He defined the x86 market - why can't we do the same? > > With all the thinkers out there (Jordan, Theo) wouln't that be thebetter way >to go? > >Just a thought - and willing to confess, I have zero clue how to get there. >But, we need to get there. > >