Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:44:01 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Evan Oulashin <eno@pdxconnect.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: am I missing something? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000817103756.68978I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <399B64FC.E7D8A1F2@pdxconnect.com>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Evan Oulashin wrote: [snip - code like manna falling down from heaven and getting itself self-integrated] > > To anyone who's been on the list more than a couple of months it should > be quite clear that a> there's NO effort currently going into the sparc > port, and b> there's NO one out there willing to pick up the banner and > run with it. Maybe this is really saying, hey, if I want BSD on Sparc, > I'll just run Open or Net. Or, maybe this says, hey, Solaris just does > such a bang up job (right) that why would we spend the time... > It just happens that the following things have not came together into one person yet: * time * desire to work on freebsd-sparc * ability to work on the level required to kickstart it * hardware > > What might happen, for instance, if there were to evolve a base > distribution which contained all of what's good in Free, Net, and Open, > as well as BSD, and then at install time/compile time, whatever, the > user then merely selected those attributes from whatever system that > would work well for him? I realize this is some gross > oversimplification of tons of code here, but I must admit, I've always > sort of marveled at the fact that the 4 factions just sort of continue > on their own paths rather than joining forces and perhaps producing the > sum of all good... > The great unified BSD. Not really worth spending time on, definately not on this list > > eno > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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