From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 22 07:25:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA17361 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 07:25:22 -0800 Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA17324 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 07:25:12 -0800 Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id QAA07669; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:23:03 +0100 From: Thomas Gellekum Message-Id: <199502221523.QAA07669@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: FYI.. To: ugen@netvision.net.il (Ugen J.S.Antsilevich) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:23:02 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: from "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" at Feb 22, 95 12:58:44 pm Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1188 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ugen J.S.Antsilevich wrote: > > Hmm..again completely sick NetBSD "release".. > Tell me, is there *ANY* such release of NetBSD which supports > without any exclusion or stuff at least 70% of hardware for some > architecture? That funny OS just comes out anytime with messages like the > one you sent: SUPPORT FOR > And then: except [ethernet|discs|video(no X,never!!!)|serial|processors|etc..] > Actually i think this is even too small to be called "FYI"..:) > *IMHO* Well, the problem is that the groups working on the ports may be small; take the MacBSD port, there are about three guys working seriously but probably not full time on it but a lot of people on the mailing-lists are screaming about the things that don't work and when will they be finished. So, those ``releases'' are probably put out to attract people who might be able to actually support the work but don't have the overall expertise or time to port the kernel to a new architecture. Don't forget that the README for 386BSD-0.0 also said things like `the terminal driver is not really stable, sometimes characters get stuck in the queue, ...' and it took, what, 3 years? until FreeBSD-1.1.5 was out. tg