Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:59:39 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Olivier Certner <olce@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM) Message-ID: <202409091859.489Ixdia086264@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <2611284.jQUcPV6jne@ravel> References: <202409031532.483FW0If007252@critter.freebsd.dk> <2611284.jQUcPV6jne@ravel>
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Olivier Certner writes: > > We need to find a contemporary and useful answer to "What is FreeBSD?" > > I think you've answered part of that satisfactorily in your initial mail= already: > > > Delivering a single consistent userland with the kernel has stood > > us well for three decades, and we should stick with that. > > I'll add: > - A system that is easy to build and tweak in practice (for developers a= t the very least). But what are the boundaries of this "system" of which you talk ? I am more or less responsible for nearly two hundred computers running FreeBSD right now. Only two of those have zero ports/packages installed, one monitors my floor heating system, the other firewalls some old crap. To me "src+kernel" is just the foundations. "A system" is what people build on top of the foundations. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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