Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:20:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dennis@etinc.com, julian@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD support inc. Message-ID: <199512122020.NAA01656@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <17017.818733582@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 11, 95 05:59:42 pm
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> > > Basically it's one of those double-edged swords, like merging with > > > NetBSD. A lot of really enticing benefits on the surface but a host > > > of sticky problems to solve underneath. > > > > Like how do you deal with suddenly running on 12 more platforms for > > nearly free. > > No, it's how do you deal with suddenly being forced to do release > engineering for 12 platforms where one was formerly enough to drive > the release engineer to early retirement? By making the administrative interfaces for all system identical, and by data-driving those areas where it's not possible to resolve the interface conflicts. CV: my more recent articles on logical device management in a devfs framework. It's an engineering problem, not a management problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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