The future of NetBSD

Marco Peereboom slash at peereboom.us
Thu Aug 31 23:38:37 UTC 2006


This is the most retarded thing I heard in weeks.

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:28:29PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
> 
> >Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >>>
> >>>I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
> >>>different goals...
> >>
> >>Even at the kernel level?  Look at device drivers and vendors as one 
> >>example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, 
> >>for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one 
> >>for FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for 
> >>DragonflyBSD ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of 
> >>stuff, it might be asier to get support at the vendor level, no?
> >>
> >
> >How would a common API provide more support from the vendor ? What does 
> >the API have to do with releasing documentation ?
> 
> I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards 
> directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of 
> documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need 
> documentation for?
> 


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