From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 23:36:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA29634 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 23:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA29622 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 23:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA17162; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:34:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:34:44 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Nate Williams cc: Kevin Day , John Kelly , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-Reply-To: <199712040238.TAA22599@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. Hey! I though he said that he is running -current on the SMP machine? > > > 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? But he is not! He is using FreeBSD-current... > > > 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. > Hmmm... > > Nate > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.