From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 4 03:35:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA13681 for current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 03:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA13676 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 03:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29921; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:12:32 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id MAA07607; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:59:19 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id MAA20316; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:34:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19971204123419.09270@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:34:19 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: dg@root.com Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? References: <199712040600.IAA19642@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <199712040711.XAA18655@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199712040711.XAA18655@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:11:17PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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] -