From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 27 20:29:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5853A16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:29:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB0243D31 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:29:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004062720293801100nuhfie>; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:29:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA31800; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:29:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Karl M. Joch" In-Reply-To: <40DE7BD0.8080304@ctseuro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:29:40 -0000 On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Karl M. Joch wrote: > I think if one would ask the stable userbase there would be lot of > different answers. like for me, i tell customers they have a long live, > very stable OS for their servers where updates are easy and free and > they can stay always with the latest release. now i got the problem that > in the first step there was mails around, that the stallion drivers are > removed from the source tree. so i had to tell a lot of customers they > have to trash the stallion card they buyed because it was in the > hardware compatibility list. most was mad, because they have invested > the hardware after changing their systems from SCO to FreeBSD (we > replaced a lot of them). Now I have to tell them "Great, you trashed the > cards (not alot of them have), but you have to stay at 4.x because the > software (ERP/Financial/Billing) we moved from SCO to FreeBSD with IBCS > Emulation doesnt work on 5.x". > > No, I am not able to maintain the moduls because i am not a good enough > programmer. If that would be the case i would have adapted the stallion > stl driver. > > Flame me if you like, but from a users/intergrators point of view > breaking the backward compatibility that way is really worse for the > public image of the OS. And the answer "you are free to stay with 4.x" > is not an answer acceptable for customers. This sounds like a compelling argument for keeping the emulation. After all it's teh end-user that we have to consider.. > -- > Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen, > > Karl M. Joch > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >