Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:41:51 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: dyson@iquest.net, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what I promised :-) Message-ID: <19980624034151.12579@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199806231756.MAA19966@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:56:14PM -0500 References: <199806230204.VAA10715@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199806231756.MAA19966@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:56:14PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > David Kelly said: > > "John S. Dyson" writes: > > > Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav said: > > > > I'm holding my breath until you tell us the name of the project you're > > > > working on :) > > > > > > > The name "G2" was suggested, so that is the codename for now. It > > > kind-of means "Generation 2". > > > > You're not going to call it, "FreeBSD 4.0"? ;-) > > > No, and in fact, BSD apparently won't be in the name at all. There > are both legal and technical reasons why it won't be there. There > will be code of BSD heritage in the kernel, and some code with BSD > heritage in userland. It won't have the (non-threaded) structure > of a BSD kernel, but likely will have many of the same pieces, in > one form or another. > > Note that I am not in the "naming", "infrastructure" or "interface > with other organizations or groups" department on the project. :-). However, I seem to be, so I'll present a picture of that side of it: John says categorically "no" to it being called FreeBSD 4.0. This isn't something I'd do - this is an open option, but one which I don't consider too likely. The FreeBSD project will have the option of adopting the technology (it's free software, and we'll certainly be willing to help), and whether this will happen or not will be up to the FreeBSD corpus at that time. It is not something that can be meaningfully evaluated right now - we know we want to cover some areas FreeBSD doesn't cover, and whether that can be done without trading off in other areas won't be 100% clear until we have working code showing it. Presently, we're just working on design and testing prototypes in various areas. Things are starting to shape up a bit - not quite _everything_ is in flux anymore (but most things still are :-) We'll be sourcing technology from all available places (limited by license, quality and fitness to our purposes only). As time passes, we hope to also form more formal ties with other Open Source projects (with *BSD foremost of these). We hope to make this project something positive as seen from all points, not "just another competitor". Also, working on G2 does not mean that we're abandoning the other projects we're part of - I for one will keep working on FreeBSD. I'll probably cut a bit on the mailing list activity, but I won't be gone. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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