Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:08:02 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "william wong" <beijing.liangjie@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101 Message-ID: <86prvrv0b1.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <84a208a0801240456q3154de92me73e846df84d587a@mail.gmail.com> (william wong's message of "Thu\, 24 Jan 2008 20\:56\:49 %2B0800") References: <84a208a0801232306k6a34134aqd549a1ba2160fe41@mail.gmail.com> <86bq7bwlot.fsf@ds4.des.no> <84a208a0801240456q3154de92me73e846df84d587a@mail.gmail.com>
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"william wong" <beijing.liangjie@gmail.com> writes: > Thanks for enlightening me on different aspects. Actually I found there a= re > many exciting network stack projects/overhaul happening in FreeBSD 8. I j= ust > want to gear up myself and see what I can do. I have got 6.3 installed and > tweaking some of the kernel modification and compilation process so that i > can get myself acquainted to the software development process. You should really, really upgrade to 7. Nobody is doing any serious work on 6 (beyond merging bug fixes back from 7); all the exciting work happens in 8, and kernel patches against 8 will very rarely apply cleanly to 6. > It seems that Juniper favors the even number FreeBSD's. Only because 5 was a dog. They probably stuck with 4 for a while, then switched to 6 once they had ascertained that it was significantly more stable than 5. I would be surprised if they skipped 7. > So get to know about FB8 could be ahead of them :) I very much doubt it. Juniper employs several veteran FreeBSD developers (and so does Cisco, for that matter). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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