Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:36:01 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What result would *you* like from the merger? Message-ID: <20000313223601G.jhix@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003131715280.371-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003131715280.371-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
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From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> Subject: What result would *you* like from the merger? Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:27:45 -0500 (EST) > Everyone is talking about the merger, so I thought I'd start a new thread: > > What would you like to see from the merger? > > > I would like to see two things - native support of Oracle and VMWare. > Oracle has partnered with Red Hat - why not partner with BSDI? BSDI is > proably more profitable and would be another IPO for Oracle to buy into. > The only thing I'd give a rats patootie about VMWare is if it were useful as a development aid for /usr/src/sys/boot hacking :-) Oracle is less useful for my purposes but some people seem to want it. Here's my wishlist of things I'd like to see for FreeBSD resulting from the merger: 1. PowerPC support 2. Sparc support 3. eBSD (romfs specifically) 4. improved SMP support > VMWare could be brought in to the BSD fold as well. How? Offer to help > them get VMWare working natively under BSD and then bundle it, just like > Mandrake Linux does with their PowerPack. Yawn :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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