From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 16 07:15:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18010 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 07:15:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (fw1.enc.edu [207.95.42.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17962 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 07:14:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) Received: from itsdsv2.enc.edu (itsdsv2.enc.edu [10.1.1.9]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21478; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:11:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:11:26 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens To: hackers list FreeBSD cc: Peter Braam Subject: Re: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, It would seem that my language used in starting this thread carried some un-intended connotations. I was _attempting_ to say: Coda is cool, but development _such_as_it_is_occurring_right_now_ is focusing on a particular OS (that just happens to be Linux)... Let's make sure that that FreeBSD remains a viable Coda platform (since FreeBSD is what we use) I can see, however, that my comments could have been construed as if intended to urge reaction against some supposed "Linux-camp" advancement in a Linux/FreeBSD war. Nope... nothing so diabolical. I simply would like to implement Coda using FreeBSD clients and servers (since that is what I personally prefer), and therefore wanted to start some discussion about what I saw as potential roadblocks to that happening. I am, as well, very encouraged to see the level of interest in Coda shown hereabouts. Sorry about any confusion... C. Owens Peter Braam said: > A) Re: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux > - ------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is NOT AT ALL TRUE. I can see how what I said evolved into this > statement, here is what I really said (or believe I said): > > a) the FreeBSD port (2.2.5) is _almost_ done. We have a working client, > the servers are playing up a bit. > > b) we DO NOT FAVOUR LINUX. It is true that our servers start up 3 times > faster on Linux than on NetBSD 1.2. It is also true that a fairly large > group of students from Yale is helping to implement Linux specific Coda > optimizations (which FreeBSD may already have). It is also true that > some > NetBSD people have been sending me very unfriendly messages about Linux. > Finally it is true that a lot of high quality FreeBSD/NetBSD messages > have been sent to the Coda lists -- that's great. > Please join the linux-coda lists (see www.coda.cs.cmu.edu). Don't > engage > in OS wars, or irrelevant criticism of other free or commercial > operating > systems -- if it happens I'll start moderating the list. We are just > interested in Coda. The list will probably be renamed reflect its > NON-linux status. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message