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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly)
Cc:        dyson@iquest.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Here is what I promised :-)
Message-ID:  <199806240442.XAA21295@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806240359.WAA13511@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Jun 23, 98 10:59:32 pm"

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David Kelly said:
> "John S. Dyson" writes:
> > 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
> > are both legal and technical reasons why it won't be there.  There
> > will be code of BSD heritage in the kernel, and some code with BSD
> > heritage in userland.  It won't have the (non-threaded) structure
> > of a BSD kernel, but likely will have many of the same pieces, in
> > one form or another.
> 
> None the less, it sounds like good stuff for FreeBSD to borrow from for 
> FreeBSD 4.0, not that I have any say in the matter.
>
That just might happen :-).

> 
> Now if only those with talent would *quit* working on kernels and come 
> up with a replacement for X...
> 
There is sort-of a project like that called GGI, that itself supports
X on top of it.


-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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