From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 15:11:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E57016A421 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beijing.liangjie@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAC013C4D3 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:11:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beijing.liangjie@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so285280fgg.35 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:11:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bQhGh6OXwSAQ7Kr9dhmu76gLDxYLPzVW6s2x0404n38=; b=Xzm5Xzk2wLWwA8Xzd5GmsteFzrzdHXaXL5DC221yiS35sedabDWLzoHSG8jTr2uS4GDu7ddTk1YSV7QNxPwz/KT3yF7S4F9h8z/DUfoSJe24scudkS1WELthdsMbAuJ74TQphIjur1wuUzC8mEg9Ajje03lAzhypKD6sI9p3Nmw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Egc/85K68oXBSMx/fGe3b8sIpaWJyRot73gpNafSccFNpkPE3R+spmiS1GYGAf/TyIybThAqjLUWw/K5PyBpyCPdHQUmYubFtulptQGDZeHUbPWolvcf2t35fGC5ZryDBKOUuiErUoPRhDwIKFllYBIHnqh4/FS+myPuYd7oL7w= Received: by 10.86.1.1 with SMTP id 1mr720393fga.2.1201187465100; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.89.14 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:11:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <84a208a0801240711j979874apad2d17c9afdbd6e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:11:05 +0800 From: "william wong" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" In-Reply-To: <86prvrv0b1.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <84a208a0801232306k6a34134aqd549a1ba2160fe41@mail.gmail.com> <86bq7bwlot.fsf@ds4.des.no> <84a208a0801240456q3154de92me73e846df84d587a@mail.gmail.com> <86prvrv0b1.fsf@ds4.des.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:11:07 -0000 2008/1/24, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav : > "william wong" writes: > > Thanks for enlightening me on different aspects. Actually I found there= are > > many exciting network stack projects/overhaul happening in FreeBSD 8. I= just > > 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 tha= t 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. Please pardon my ignorance of the jargons. Does that mean 5 is not stable or does not perform or what? > > > 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). In other words both of them really want to push FreeBSD to its fullest and would like to extract most out of it. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > william