From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 11 00:51:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD2D16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0045243D45 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nullentropy@lineone.net) Received: from lineone.net (orbital.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.215.230]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2501D25D82F for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:51:08 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4078F8EA.7090802@lineone.net> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:51:06 +0100 From: Robert Downes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040403 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <8501.1081595369@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <8501.1081595369@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:44:56 -0700 Subject: Re: Future of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 07:51:23 -0000 On your site, you talk about what you hope to achieve if you reach the required funding level. Could you, for those such as myself, explain in 'I'm-a-web-dev-and-I-call-myself-a-tech-guy-the-damn-cheek' terms (that's one step above layman's terms) what some of the infrastructure improvements mean. Such as: what is the "Giant" lock? (I have read the section in your 'really long version', but, well... I'm a web-dev. I can write you a nice, standards-compliant website, but I don't have a clue what all the serious terms in your document mean. I did teach myself C when I was fourteen, but found little use for it at school, and it rusted away.) Just a few paragraphs on the current problems and potential results would be very interesting. -- Bob (number 25)