From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Nov 4 11:53:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9612237B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1888E43E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA4JrVJ6082121; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:53:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gA4JrU0k082120; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:53:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:53:30 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Haikal Saadh Cc: Eric Anderson , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To Do list / Goals Message-ID: <20021104145330.A82034@blackhelicopters.org> References: <3DC2959A.4@centtech.com> <20021102033749.13758.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021102033749.13758.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:37:49PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:37:49PM -0800, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > > (yahoo.com for instance, might say "FreeBSD saves us thousands..." > > - choose media targets > > Hmmm. Yahoo's Talking about moving to PHP from a proprietary system. > And one of the selection criteria for prospective languages (perl, > php, java etc) was that it should run on FreeBSD. > > They didn't pick java because > " you can’t really use Java w/o threads > • Threads support on FreeBSD is not great > " > > Interesting, yes? The threads issue is being addressed by KSE. Unfortunately, that's a 5.0 thing, and we can't really push that right now. :-( ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message