Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:38:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP comparisons Message-ID: <199907111638.LAA83529@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990709123547.26418A-100000_current1.whistle.com@ns.sol.net> from Julian Elischer at "Jul 9, 1999 7:45:49 pm"
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> The main motivating factor for those who have strong feeling in the matter > is fear. Either fear that -current will be destabilised (Well DUH, > Helloooo, It's -current...) or fear that Matt will be a divisive > influence. (go figure) "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to _suffering_!" I hate to think that FreeBSD is trailing Linux, and the conclusion I come to is that things like this do not help the situation any. A requirement for a "stable" -CURRENT is complete crap... sure, stability should be a goal, but heck... any major work on the kernel has always resulted in instability. John Dyson's VM work left things shaky or awful for days or weeks at a time. The SMP integration had some serious issues. I think the CAM integration had some lesser ones. These were all valuable and necessary changes, and we tolerated these. If you want a stable -CURRENT, you should be running -STABLE. To core: FreeBSD has been a great OS for years. However, in order to continue, there must be a constant emphasis on evolving the technology and keeping it competitive. You've already lost the edge, at least in the SMP environment. Regaining the lead, or even a respectable position in the race, is going to be hard as it is... and much harder if this sort of paranoia continues. Please reconsider. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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