From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 17:23: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2BE37B491 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:22:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-135-70.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.135.70]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA10156; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:22:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A8B2F6B.A514C0CE@bellatlantic.net> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:22:51 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDI environment now released. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > > The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger > number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors > within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really > there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is > being done) makes less sense than it used to. I'm afraid, it is. How many versions of FreeBSD with incompatible driver interfaces are out there ? How many versions of Linux with the same sort of incompatibilities ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message