From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 20:37:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25361 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25347 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:37:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-123.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.123]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA17631; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:37:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12310; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:15:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199806260315.WAA12310@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: Eivind Eklund , dyson@iquest.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 (was: Here is what I promised :-)) In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:21:09 +0930." <19980625182109.D356@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:15:48 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id UAA25352 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > On Wednesday, 24 June 1998 at 3:41:51 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:56:14PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > >> David Kelly said: [...] > >>> > >>> You're not going to call it, "FreeBSD 4.0"? ;-) > >>> > >> No, and in fact, BSD apparently won't be in the name at all. There [...] > > John says categorically "no" to it being called FreeBSD 4.0. This > > isn't something I'd do - this is an open option, but one which I don't > > consider too likely. > > I would consider it rude in the extreme to use somebody else's name > for your new product. I can understand why John is so emphatic. The > software may be free, but the name has certain bindings. I didn't mean to create such a stir. And certainly didn't mean that somebody should run off with anybody's name. My actual intent was to suggest G2 could be a source of good ideas for FreeBSD's future or may even be FreeBSD's future. Apparently others had that idea too. Now that a possible link between G2 and FreeBSD has mind share, its time to back off and see what happens. Wouldn't want to interfere with the release of FreeBSD 3.0. :-) As to the name G2, the current crop of PowerPC chips are known as G3, the forthcoming crop as G4. Might want to think about namespace collisions. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message