Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:27:44 +0100 From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: Joost van de Griek <gyorpb@gmail.com>, misc@openbsd.org, users@dragonflybsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unified BSD? Message-ID: <20121113122744.GB2362@cs.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <20121113120427.GE96846@e-new.0x20.net> References: <CAOc%2B9seWtWaw=bx%2BKwjKXjULArijgcvbDR1gi_J%2BSQkFfsHTCA@mail.gmail.com> <AE3F3CAD-1785-4363-8266-AC11775A52DF@gmail.com> <20121113104511.GA2362@cs.uni-bonn.de> <20121113120427.GE96846@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:04:27PM +0100, Lars Engels wrote: > MirBSD / MirOS is dead: > > http://www.freshbsd.org/search?project=mirbsd > > Last commit: 2011-08-29 23:00:00 I'm no Mir* co-worker, so take this with a grain of salt. But on general principles: a) I question the date itself - that's the last commit to whatever freshbsd.org watches, not necessarily the last thing the developers did. (In fact, I've heard from Thorsten at FrosCon that he does definitely not consider his project abandoned.) b) Besides - I question the notion of "unchanging" == "dead". In fact, as somebody who *uses* software, and who administeres computers for others who want to *use* the software, I consider changing software - e.g. the fortnightly changes of Firefox-Current's user interface - a nuisance. (That's why Mozilla has their "extended support release", currently 10.0.9.) People want to use software for some work, not spend half of their time rewriting configuration files or relearn key bidings or menu entry positions. (Now, nobody being there who looks at bug reports etc... thats something different. But you only see changes through this activity if there really *are* bugs.) -is
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