From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 04:37:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA09089 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA09069 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:37:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id NAA13776; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 13:33:35 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199601171233.NAA13776@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: BSDvs Lxxxxx Flame.. To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 13:33:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601170954.BAA00779@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Jan 17, 96 01:54:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Someone should respond and state that freebsd, netbsd and bsdi are > widely available and in the case of bsdi that is a commercial > product for those who like that sort of things. Additionally, > I consider them all to be stable platforms. > > Cheers, > Amancio I considered writing a letter, but being involved in a flame war on a newpaper is like playing chess over mail. You get to retirement before the game is over... Perhaps I should have mentioned this before, I didn't because I thougt the potential candidates knew that: IEEE Computer has scheduled an issue in 1996 on 32 bit operating system. The deadline has expired, and I did know enough about the internals of the OS to write something myself (not that I would have done it without asking to the list in advance). Maybe it would have been a good chance to present the experimental issues that are being covered in FreeBSD-current. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================