Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoucning DragonFly BSD! Message-ID: <20030717205356.D74873@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717211709.GX71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <200307171205.h6HC5cno061708@tower.berklix.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307170851210.87910-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030717211709.GX71533@klapaucius.zer0.org>
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Gregory Sutter wrote: To drag this back to more interesting topics, I'm not yet convinced that branching off 4.X is a good thing. I see all the mound of work to make things work with mutexes, and it still seems like a good thing, and something that CAN be still leveraged, even in a messaging prardigm. I'll admit I might be wrong, but I'd sure appreciate a bit of discussion about it. I *like* the mutex idea, at base, and I really hate to lose the work. > On 2003-07-17 08:57 -0700, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Julian Stacey wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> appeared to write: > > > > > > > Announcing DragonFly BSD! > > > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ > > > > > > - A new kernel - OK - maybe it'll cross fertilise others, > > > but couldn't it run with an exisiting /usr/src ? Free Net or Open. > > > > Mat had his commit bit unfairly removed.. what would YOU do? > > Look, let's not go there again--the past is the past. The current > situation is that Matt is using his skills and perspective to branch > FreeBSD in an interesting direction. We all know he can do it, > so instead of repoliticizing the discussion by harping on how he > was "treated unfairly", which we know is a subject fraught with > disagreement, let's just focus on the work that Matt is doing to > further the improvement of BSD technology. OK? > > Greg > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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