Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:34:19 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: dg@root.com Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <19971204123419.09270@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <199712040711.XAA18655@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:11:17PM -0800 References: <199712040600.IAA19642@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <199712040711.XAA18655@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman writes:
>
> Actually, there is, sort of. The problem is that a large number of people
> will be evaluating FreeBSD/SMP when it is released, and if the performance
> sucks, this is what magazine reviewers will say and is what people will
> remember. It's too important of a feature to have working poorly in the
> first release.
Bingo. I'd hate see another one of those "... FreeBSD did fairly
well, nothing remarkable... next OS...".
I mean, FreeBSD _is_ damn amazing. The quality of the code
(as much as Theo de Raadt'd like us to believe that BSD code sucks)
is great -- with all that implies: clean, stable, with a well-defined
priority of "it should work before it gets in".
My _personal_ opinion is that merging SMP into -current had one
inevitable side-effect that maybe not many people thought about:
SMP is one _BIG_ lump to digest, and since it's not likely
to be "retro-fitted" in -stable (unless many little green men
come and help -- and maintain it after), it becomes the biggest
single step to get over to reach the next release bump.
In a way, merging SMP has had a braking effect on release speed,
but has not slowed down development in other places.
3.0 will be one _hell_ of a milestone.
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
"Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and
the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?"
- S. Kelly Bootle, about Cerberus ["MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib] -
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