From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 13 22:32: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E4037B846 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from jhix.mindspring.com (user-33qtkc4.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.209.132]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA03739; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:31:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhix.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA04306; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:36:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) To: ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What result would *you* like from the merger? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on XEmacs 21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000313223601G.jhix@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:36:01 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 990905(IM130) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: Eric Wayte 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