From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 23 21:43:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24282 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24195 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21295; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:42:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199806240442.XAA21295@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Here is what I promised :-) In-Reply-To: <199806240359.WAA13511@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Jun 23, 98 10:59:32 pm" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:42:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kelly said: > "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. > That just might happen :-). > > Now if only those with talent would *quit* working on kernels and come > up with a replacement for X... > There is sort-of a project like that called GGI, that itself supports X on top of it. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message