Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:05:15 -0500 From: John Brann <john@brann.org> To: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: John Brann <john@brann.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while Message-ID: <20000317160515.A86674@freebie.brann.org> In-Reply-To: <20000317205350.E20791@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:53:50PM %2B0000 References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> <20000317154125.A86459@freebie.brann.org> <20000317205350.E20791@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:53:50PM +0000, J McKitrick wrote:
> What do you consider 'innovative' in FreeBSD recently?
>
> jm
> --
> --------------------------------------------
> Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org
> "Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell,
> and i didn't care which."
> --------------------------------------------
The biggies for me (as an observer) are still the VM system and softupdates.
Admittedly that may not be recent in Internet Time (TM), but they represent
significant achievements.
I watch the current- list and the process of re-engineering which has gone
into the newbus effort, the PC-CARD work (and CAM before those) represents, to
me, innovation of the most useful kind. Is it ground-breaking in the way
that a working PDA was when it appeared - a revolution in the way that we
think about computing - no, but that's not what FreeBSD is for.
I'm sure Terry Lambert would fulminate about my choices, and call down the
judgement of heaven on the lack of orthogonality in the file-system stacking
layers, but he too, represents a source of innovative thinking (and fine
email commentary) in FreeBSD.
John
--
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