From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 23 21:16:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20695 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20662 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-168.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.168]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA13408; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:15:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13511; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:59:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199806240359.WAA13511@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dyson@iquest.net cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Here is what I promised :-) In-reply-to: Message from "John S. Dyson" of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:56:14 CDT." <199806231756.MAA19966@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:59:32 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA20667 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John S. Dyson" writes: > David Kelly said: > > You're not going to call it, "FreeBSD 4.0"? ;-) > > > No, and in fact, BSD apparently won't be in the name at all. There > are both legal and technical reasons why it won't be there. There > will be code of BSD heritage in the kernel, and some code with BSD > heritage in userland. It won't have the (non-threaded) structure > of a BSD kernel, but likely will have many of the same pieces, in > one form or another. None the less, it sounds like good stuff for FreeBSD to borrow from for FreeBSD 4.0, not that I have any say in the matter. Now if only those with talent would *quit* working on kernels and come up with a replacement for X... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message