Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-25 Thread Yuri
On 07/25/2016 12:00, twilight wrote: The only sad thing is that *BSD is actually dying. Linux is getting literally everywhere, spoiling standards with linuxisms and accepting blobs (that are still Linux-specific, so no hardware support even with blobs and no open specs also). So, losing contribut

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-25 Thread twilight
Wow, that's an amazing story. I've got much shorter (so as my life is) story: I've started out as a Windows user, as many of us. My first operating system was Windows 2000, the next system I used for a long time was Windows XP. When I was at the sixth grade I've found a book for computer newbies

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-25 Thread Allen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:18:38 +0100 Kai Windle wrote: > So it is apologies. I don't know why I thought it was your's Andrew. > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:15:21AM +, Andrew Perry wrote: > > Kai Windle wrote: > > > I've no doubt that as time progresses I'll have many questions. > > > But fo

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-25 Thread Kai Windle
So it is apologies. I don't know why I thought it was your's Andrew. On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:15:21AM +, Andrew Perry wrote: > Kai Windle wrote: > > I've no doubt that as time progresses I'll have many questions. > > But for now I'm happy to read the mailing lists when I can. I do > > enjoy

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-25 Thread Kai Windle
Hello, I have seen people hanging around on IRC. Myself, I've been on both IRC and the mailing lists just because while I've got FreeBSD installed on my home computer I still don't know enough so I'm mainly around just to learn more than anything else. Since I don't have many questions or m

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-24 Thread Allen
On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:22:18 + Andrew Perry wrote: > funny, I actually unsubscribed from chat (and others) because I was > getting too much traffic. At the time I couldn't deal with it (long > story, divorce and messy real life stuff). I was surprised when I > recently resubscribed and didn't

RE: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-24 Thread Andrew Perry
___ From: owner-freebsd-c...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-c...@freebsd.org] on behalf of twilight [pipfsta...@openmailbox.org] Sent: Sunday, 24 July 2016 4:55 PM To: Jason C. Wells; freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong To IRC, maybe? Chatting over e-mail i

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-23 Thread twilight
To IRC, maybe? Chatting over e-mail is, kinda, funny. Lags are too big. On 24.07.2016 00:48, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I'm just excited to see a little traffic on -chat. Where'd everybody go? > > Regards, > Jason C. Wells > > ___ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-23 Thread Jason C. Wells
I'm just excited to see a little traffic on -chat. Where'd everybody go? Regards, Jason C. Wells ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr.

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 19:31:13 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Pedro Giffuni writes: >> I was in the process of preparing a port of bitkeeper and I found this: >> >> https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper >> >> "The BitKeeper history needs to be written up but the short version is >

Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....

2016-07-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Pedro Giffuni writes: > I was in the process of preparing a port of bitkeeper and I found this: > > https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper > > "The BitKeeper history needs to be written up but the short version is > that it happened because Larry wanted to help Linux not turn into a > bunch of