From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 4 23:04:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11662 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cia.net.au (mail.cia.net.au [203.17.36.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11568 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alastair@cia.com.au) Received: from clarence.progmatics.com.au ([203.28.49.193]) by cia.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA31397 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:59:01 +1000 Received: from alastair (192.168.0.67) by clarence.progmatics.com.au (Worldmail 1.3.167); 5 Jun 1998 16:04:09 +1000 Message-ID: <356B61CF00000112@clarence.progmatics.com.au> (added by clarence.progmatics.com.au) X-Sender: alastair@mail.cia.com.au (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 16:04:06 +1000 To: Brett Glass From: Alastair Rankine Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.99999? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.0.1.19980604174542.044f7310@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:55 PM 4/06/98 -0600, you wrote: >fabulously stable, but -current has so many appealing features that are not >being migrated back to 2.2.x (for instance, CAM, DOS VMs, long user names, >64-bit dates, etc.) that I'd be sacrificing a lot if I installed 2.2.6. And On a slightly related issue, it sure would be nice to be able to even find out what's coming up in -current! Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net) is a great resource for keeping up-to-date with the latest Linux developments. I visit weekly, even though I don't have a Linux box. Something similar for FreeBSD would be great! As a general observation it seems that the FreeBSD community as a whole are far less inclined to tell the outside world about their achievments. Of course I'm not advocating a genesis of a new breed of one-eyed zealots, such as the Amiga users back in the '80s, the Guy Kawasaki Mac-Nazis or the more extreme of the Linux crowd (or, Dog help us, the NT fanatics for that matter :). FreeBSD is still the great undiscovered secret of the times. It would be a pity for it to stay that way. Just some unwanted opinions from someone on the fringes.... (of what, you decide :) -- [ Alastair Rankine ] [ mailto:alastair@cia.com.au ] [ http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] [ pgp5 64E4 B67C D2B7 EEC4 63C9 AA74 F63A 9AD9 E44B 21C7 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message