From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 02:55:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCED316A4DD for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail07.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail07.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC7AF43D2D for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from relyod@cooperationireland.org) Received: (qmail 56093 messnum 920705 invoked from network[194.125.148.35/ts03-035.dublin.indigo.ie]); 7 Jan 2004 10:55:25 -0000 Received: from ts03-035.dublin.indigo.ie (HELO ?194.125.148.35?) (194.125.148.35) by mail07.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 56093) with SMTP; 7 Jan 2004 10:55:25 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040107102406.GD27903@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <20040107071321.GA3781@online.fr> <20040107102406.GD27903@iconoplex.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3F3895EC-40FD-11D8-AC3A-000A95E5F504@cooperationireland.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Doyle Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:35:43 +0000 To: Paul Robinson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: Mark Linimon cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:55:29 -0000 On 7 Jan 2004, at 10:24, Paul Robinson wrote: > > I like the ideas over on DF, and I'll be trying it myself too. > However, DF > is to FBSD what OBSD is NBSD. It is possible that personalities may > follow. > Is this such a bad thing? As far as I can see OpenBSD has developed a "best of breed" reputation for security on a restricted set of hardware compared to NetBSD. They now occupy distinctly different niches, and there's room for both. If DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD both evolve in different directions away from the point at which the fork occurred, then there should be a place for both in the long term future landscape. (Note: I'm a system administrator who depends on FreeBSD to run the vast majority (9 out of 11) servers in my small company. The only development that I do is Database/Website stuff, so I'm not competent to comment with anything other than a "user" perspective on Kernel programming issues.)