Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 - TUHS

29 Jan 2000

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathon McKitrick &lt;jcm(a)dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org&gt;
To: John Rosenberg &lt;jcrosenberg(a)earthlink.net&gt;
Cc: Greg Lehey &lt;grog(a)lemis.com&gt;; Joerg B. Micheel &lt;joerg(a)begemot.org&gt;;
Steven M. Schultz &lt;sms(a)moe.2bsd.com&gt;; &lt;pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; FreeBSD
Chat &lt;chat(a)freebsd.org&gt;
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 07:24
Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8

...
  tough sell.  Several guys i know say the majority of
new unix installs
 are Linux with few BSD.  They say the only BSD users that are growing
 are ISPs. 
I think, that linux is somehow an entry in the unix world ;-)
After a while you notice, that *BSD is cleaner & more stable.

...
  Also, the white paper on BeOS claims that with all the
new advances in
 hardware, modern OS's have too many layers, which they call 'silt', to
 allow them to use the hardware effectively. 
Look what happened to linux & *BSD in the last months/years. They adapting
new technologies very fast ...

...
  They argue that only
 starting from scratch allows full use of modern technology, including
 multimedia advances.  How can FreeBSD keep up?  We don't have kernel
 threading and SMP support is still in the works, and most BSD features
 are 'add-ons'.  Should this be a concern for the future? 
Don't be "concerned", build in the stuff you're missing ;-)

cheers,
emanuel