From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 18:16:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFAD37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.147.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012D943FDF for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from april.chuckr.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by april.chuckr.org (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h6I0uw37075599; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost)h6I0uvYA075596; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: april.chuckr.org: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Gregory Sutter In-Reply-To: <20030717211709.GX71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> Message-ID: <20030717205356.D74873@april.chuckr.org> References: <200307171205.h6HC5cno061708@tower.berklix.org> <20030717211709.GX71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Julian Elischer cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoucning DragonFly BSD! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:16:45 -0000 On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Gregory Sutter wrote: To drag this back to more interesting topics, I'm not yet convinced that branching off 4.X is a good thing. I see all the mound of work to make things work with mutexes, and it still seems like a good thing, and something that CAN be still leveraged, even in a messaging prardigm. I'll admit I might be wrong, but I'd sure appreciate a bit of discussion about it. I *like* the mutex idea, at base, and I really hate to lose the work. > On 2003-07-17 08:57 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Julian Stacey wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon appeared to write: > > > > > > > Announcing DragonFly BSD! > > > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ > > > > > > - A new kernel - OK - maybe it'll cross fertilise others, > > > but couldn't it run with an exisiting /usr/src ? Free Net or Open. > > > > Mat had his commit bit unfairly removed.. what would YOU do? > > Look, let's not go there again--the past is the past. The current > situation is that Matt is using his skills and perspective to branch > FreeBSD in an interesting direction. We all know he can do it, > so instead of repoliticizing the discussion by harping on how he > was "treated unfairly", which we know is a subject fraught with > disagreement, let's just focus on the work that Matt is doing to > further the improvement of BSD technology. OK? > > Greg > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------