From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 20 22:52:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA25052 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA25043 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA14622; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:52:12 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:52:12 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610210552.XAA14622@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Musings on recent flamage Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While I don't feel any of the recent is helpful, I was a bit bummed out about things and sad about the state of BSD affairs. While browsing around I remember Paul Vixie kept a mini-log of the original 386BSD email/postings, so for grins I read that. Folks, we got it easy. As much as you might disagree with the OpenBSD folks, they are *complete* amateurs at over-reacting compared to Bill and Lynne (mostly Lynne). We're so far ahead of the game than we were just a couple years ago that it really boggles my mind. I remember trying to run 0.0 only to find out that I had no co-processor, so I couldn't. I was overjoyed when 0.1 came out and it supported my SCSI controller. We've come a long way baby! And, llthough the development model we're using now isn't perfect (none are), it works and has produced some *very* good releases, which rival the releases commercial software companies put out. Some of the problems we have are related to the 'birthing' process, so are to be expected, but all that aside this whole FreeBSD thing has been lots of fun (and work), but all in all very rewarding, as both a developer and a user. Kudos to all involved, and I can't wait to see what happens in the next 4 years! Nate