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Date:      Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:19:43 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon
Message-ID:  <20061014001917.N96390@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061012184845.GA59291@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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.

FreeBSD 6.x is also a forked 4.x, FWIW :-).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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