Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:23:51 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000620012351.A48168@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200006200318.VAA15996@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:18:16PM -0600 References: <20000619172041.G37084@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200006192311.QAA10064@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200006200318.VAA15996@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams (nate@yogotech.com) wrote: > > Actually, I think I'm looking at a *bigger* picture - what can we do to > > make FreeBSD a better platform for real-world applications? > > For a very common application, yes. WWW serving is not FreeBSD's strong > point, IMO. > > As a matter of fact, I'd venture to guess that FreeBSD is used in more > embedded systems as a 'network' platform than it's ever used as a WWW > server. > > However, it just so happens that recently it seems that Yahoo has been > pushing *HARD* for alot of WWW-server specific changes, that have little > usefulness outside of that specific application. Umm.. I've stayed out of this until now. Yahoo is no way is trying to influence the direction of FreeBSD.. Alfred asked for some of our local hacks and we gave them to him. I dont see how we are pushing specific changes. We believe the changes are good, and even better that is now generic, but dont say we are pushing *HARD*, when that isn't happening. I think you may be confusing the fact that there are people from Yahoo who are also committers. I think the fact that we bring our knowledge (mostly filo's) to FreeBSD is a good thing. We need to know what really happens in the real-world, not in the theoretical world and that is what Yahoo can bring to FreeBSD. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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