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> 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> <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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