Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a stupid comment, but ... Linux is one kernel, multiple distributions ... BSD is, what, 4 kernels now? If we

Re: Google Code Jam

2006-09-05 Thread Vijay Kiran Duvvuri
Hi Aaron, I'm participating in Google Code Jam, I'll be using Java as my language. On 9/5/06, Aaron Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious is any fellow FreeBSD users are participating in code jam this year, what language(s) they'll be using, etc. only 8 hours till it starts!

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Roopinder Singh
On 9/5/06, Andreas Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 50 distributions are only a burden if it comes to the point what different shared library / Java / TCL / etc ... versions are packaged with the OS. A friend of mine doing Java development had severe issues with all that different Linux

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
I don't think that binary only drivers are well enough. Surely better than nothing but ... No fucking way. No support is FAR FAR better than a blob. Yes, really! Don't forget that an open source team sometimes makes api changes that might break a binary only driver. And companies

Blobs

2006-09-05 Thread chefren
On 9/5/06 4:18 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: Allowing blobs is the equivalent of eating fast food; it is convenient now but 10 years from now your ass wont fit through the door. I don't know why but I feel someone has won here, no idea which contest it was or what but this quote will help a

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Stefan Bojilov
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:55:42 +0200, Andreas Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a stupid comment, but ... Linux is