From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 15 06:40:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA18567 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 06:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA18557 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 06:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03664; Thu, 15 May 1997 08:37:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:37:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" Message-Id: <199705151337.IAA03664@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dmaddox@scsn.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.7 and COMPAT_43 -Reply X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [big deletia] > > I can see that this is about to turn into one of those 'BSD-tradition vs. > common sense' debates, and I have no desire to participate in that; common > sense cannot win because the traditionalists never relent, and without > consensus, the status quo remains just that. > > Meanwhile, WindowsNT's market share continues to climb, supplanting what > *might* have been FreeBSD market share... Too bad for us that they aren't > saddled with a 'traditional' steep learning curve... > > -- > > > Donald J. Maddox > (dmaddox@scsn.net) > No, they are saddled with being NT. Hack away! ;-) I think diffs are communicated back to core with send-pr (man 1 send-pr). If your mind works like NT, you will like NT. If it doesn't, you won't. I doubt that kernel configuration details are rate limiting in the "success" of FreeBSD. Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790