From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 14 1: 2: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE3237B5DF for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:02:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF97CD1B; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:01:54 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000313223601G.jhix@mindspring.com> References: <20000313223601G.jhix@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:44:36 +0100 To: W Gerald Hicks , ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: What result would *you* like from the merger? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:36 PM -0800 2000/3/13, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > 1. PowerPC support Done. Well, on the way -- Jordan mentioned this at the NLFUG meeting. > 2. Sparc support Ditto. > 3. eBSD (romfs specifically) I'm not sure I fully understand this one. Could you explain? > 4. improved SMP support According to what I heard from Jordan, this is one of the things they're most looking forward to incorporating from BSD/OS. Anything else? ;-) Seriously, once people calm down and let the details of the plans start coming out, I think most people are going to be very, very happy with the results. Well, at least most members of the FreeBSD community and probably most of the larger BSD community -- I'm not so sure that any members of the Linux community will be happy about it. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message