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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:19:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        jamil@acroal.com (J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect)
Cc:        toor@dyson.iquest.net, jasone@canonware.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OS Ports
Message-ID:  <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971210170059.26293C-100000@acroal.com> from "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" at "Dec 10, 97 05:05:53 pm"

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J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect said:
> 
> Boy I got flamed for that remark, my point was that if he is going to do a
> port of FreeBSD and it is going to be meaningful it needs to be stable
> (Theyv'e already got a Linux port for SPARCS).  I'm not saying that
> -current is not stable, maybye what I am trying to say is that he needs
> both.  Anyway do you want everyone using SPARC FreeBSD to be running
> -current?  
> Anyway your in for a big project.
> 
I am definitely not flaming you, but -current is stable enough as a base.  There
will be improvements and enhancements along the way.  If we started with -stable,
it is unlikely that the Sparc port would ever catch up to the X86 port.

-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com



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