FreeBSD hacker 101

[KAYVEN RIESE]

I thought freeBSD 7 was still current "bleeding edge?"

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> "william wong" <beijing.liangjie at gmail.com> writes:
>> Thanks for enlightening me on different aspects. Actually I found there are
>> many exciting network stack projects/overhaul happening in FreeBSD 8. I just
>> want to gear up myself and see what I can do. I have got 6.3 installed and
>> tweaking some of the kernel modification and compilation process so that i
>> can get myself acquainted to the software development process.
>
> You should really, really upgrade to 7.  Nobody is doing any serious
> work on 6 (beyond merging bug fixes back from 7); all the exciting work
> happens in 8, and kernel patches against 8 will very rarely apply
> cleanly to 6.
>
>> It seems that Juniper favors the even number FreeBSD's.
>
> Only because 5 was a dog.  They probably stuck with 4 for a while, then
> switched to 6 once they had ascertained that it was significantly more
> stable than 5.  I would be surprised if they skipped 7.
>
>> So get to know about FB8 could be ahead of them :)
>
> I very much doubt it.  Juniper employs several veteran FreeBSD
> developers (and so does Cisco, for that matter).
>
> DES
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> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
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