From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 1 10:43: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED4C14BDC for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 10:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22312; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 10:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37A48683.C880E374@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 10:40:19 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jan B. Koum" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hey kernel hackers, this is worth a read. References: <10379.933393489@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990801014404.A8006@best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jan B. Koum" wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:58:09PM -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html > >From the article: > > "Linux 2.4 also includes a completely rewritten networking layer." > > Great. After a few years from now when they get all the bugs out, they > will be right back to the quality of early 4.4BSD quality ;) > > However, the SMP stuff they are working on is something we need IMHO. Agreed on both counts. I also like the idea of shorter turnover time between major branches. We've already got a pretty considerable amount of stuff that can't be ported back to -Stable without major headaches. It's not always easy to know exactly where to draw the line, but I think that the move from 3->4 should probably take less time than the move from 2->3 did. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message