From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 08:52:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F4716A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn.criticalmagic.com (saturn.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CBC843D2F for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:52:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (titan.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.23]) by saturn.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975D93BD10 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:52:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FEDB8D7.704@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:52:39 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <40607.202.54.61.104.1072460348.squirrel@webmail.catholic.org> In-Reply-To: <40607.202.54.61.104.1072460348.squirrel@webmail.catholic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:52:34 -0000 I think the "FreeBSD is dying" crowd from slashdot have found the FreeBSD mailing lists. They must be mad because they got a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com Pull-Henning Kunt wrote: > Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice > operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a > lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people > with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John > Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he > got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later > lead to his expulsion (1) > > (1) http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/03/239238.shtml?tid=122&tid=156 > > You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp > (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, > Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making > sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work. > > Pull-Henning Kunt FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a kill da jews. > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail. > http://webmail.catholic.org/ > > Celebrate Advent with Catholic Online. Support our Advent > sponsors by visiting them at http://www.catholic.org/clife/advent/specials.php