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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:38:51 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
Cc:        jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly), current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.0 -release ?
Message-ID:  <199712040238.TAA22599@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712040102.TAA04827@home.dragondata.com>
References:  <348708ea.1780558@mail.cetlink.net> <199712040102.TAA04827@home.dragondata.com>

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> I just mean that if there wasn't a SMP kernel available anywhere, I would
> have moved to Linux, and probably switched all my machines.

Great, feel free.

> If I didn't feel comfortable paying with experimental software, I wouldn't
> have tried at all, and definately gone with Linux.

Then why are you using Linux/SMP?

> I'm saying that I think it would be a shame to lose FreeBSD users
> because of a lack of features that other OS's have, and no-one has
> even given a rough date that these features will be available.

The people who run the 'OS of the day' aren't that critical to FreeBSD's
success, since there will *always* be something that causes them to
switch to another OS.


Nate



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