From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 18:39:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA08041 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:39:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA08036 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12128; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:38:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA22599; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:38:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:38:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199712040238.TAA22599@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kevin Day Cc: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-Reply-To: <199712040102.TAA04827@home.dragondata.com> References: <348708ea.1780558@mail.cetlink.net> <199712040102.TAA04827@home.dragondata.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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