Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:02:19 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI 3.0 feature list Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961016145350.11537B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199610160531.XAA09204@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > This is a bit off-topic, but I find it ironic that BSDI 3.0 contains > > > almost everything FreeBSD -current had (or stuff we've had for quite a > > > > What's ironic about it? Their contributor pool isn't as large as > > FreeBSD's. > > I think you're mistaken. Almost every one of BSDi/3.0 'features' are > kernel features, and the # of kernel hackers in FreeBSD is about the > same as in BSDi. It's certainly a lot less than in something like > NetBSD, but it seems most of them spend all their time just trying to > keep their's kernel working (or get it working :) rather than doing lots > of new features. Erm. I didn't look at it that way. One thing to consider is that they initially had the CSRG VM guy, but not the FS/VM guy. Maybe they waffled on what to do for a while. I wonder what approach they used to make (read/write/mmap) coherent? This could make for an interesting comparison. Regards, Mike
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