Some ideas for FreeBSD

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sat Feb 9 04:11:02 UTC 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:32 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: millueradfa at yahoo.com; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Some ideas for FreeBSD
> 
> 
> > It is one thing to add support for a POSIX call into FreeBSD.
> > That's fine.
> >
> > It's quite another to break a header or supply hacky 32-bit-only
> > code in a library or some such just because Linux does the same
> > brain-dead stuff and the Linux maintainers are too stubborn or
> > stupid to fix Linux.
> >
> don't forget that linux changed from being good unix OS to be windows 
> competitor. and it's competing well.
> 

Ah, something to strive for! :-)

Reason # 1 to be happy with Linux:  It attracts all the morons who
would otherwise fuck up FreeBSD? 

Ted


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