Re: BLOBs (Was: The future of NetBSD)

2006-09-13 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: Indeed! When something brakes, do you want it to continue to work as if nothing has happened and lose your data silently, or do you want it to give you some indication that it needs attention? * With binary drivers, it's always broken (and if

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Marc G. Fournier dixit: And what I'm learning with bsdstats.org is that there are more then just those four ... GNU/kFreeBSD is reporting Now _that_'s funny ;) Yes, indeed. Some people are really wasting their time. are there any others?

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
If you're going to keep chatting about the bsdstats thing would you please stop cross posting to so many lists? It's very irritating. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-09 Thread Adam
Thorsten Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier dixit: And what I'm learning with bsdstats.org is that there are more then just those four ... GNU/kFreeBSD is reporting Now _that_'s funny ;) -snip- The five big ones are DF/Free/Mir/Net/Open though. Not as funny as

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-09 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/09/06, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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! Indeed! When something brakes, do you want it to continue to work as if

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Daniel Seuffert (from AllBSD.de) today said he intends that your script to be installed AND ENABLED BY DEFAULT in every BSD release/snapshot, and he will definitively enable it in DesktopBSD 2.0. I will probably do the same for MirOS, as I currently

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Joseph A. Dacuma spake: 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

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Peter Hessler
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:47:32 +0200 Timo Schoeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi All! : : I agree totally with Mr. Peereboom. IMHO, BLOBS are not sustainable : in the long run. If a manufacturer decides to retire a particular : model (driver support included) while OS keeps on releasing newer

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: 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

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

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What if you: are already watching a movie? - have more than 1 dvd-rom and insert 2 disks at the same time, will it automagically play the first part? Will it play the second part after? Will it pause for 15 minutes before playing second dvd, so you can go make

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-04 Thread soralx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're tilting at windmills. I don't know of any OS that automatically starts playing a movie when you insert the DVD. What usually happens is simply that the movie player application pops up; you still have

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread soralx
If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You did: by putting the disc in. Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. Indeed, no. And putting a CD-ROM in doesn't mean I want to mount it or read it. And putting in a memory stick

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Gilbert Fernandes wrote on Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:59:57AM +0200: I have a dream. A dream of unification. Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. Horrors! Options are mostly against the goals of

RE: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Tony
Theo de Raadt wrote: [snip] We know one reason why we never got documentation. Bit by bit more information has come out to show that the hardware design is an embarrasment and there are countless bugs and shortcomings. Surprising? Not really. Affects ONLY OpenBSD? Not a chance. That's why

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread soralx
Rahul Siddharthan: On FreeBSD with UFS, more than once a crash totally hosed my system: I had to reinstall. People blamed it on ATA write-caching: the standard FreeBSD advice is use SCSI. With linux/ext3 I've NEVER had a problem Don't know whether it's really ATA write-caching, but my home

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread soralx
With today's Ubuntu, for example, I can plug in all the equipment I have -- memory sticks, digital cameras, whatever -- and it just works. Same with any system that supports _standard_ storage devices. They just work. If I pop in a DVD the DVD player opens. Now, who needs that? If you

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread soralx
If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You did: by putting the disc in. Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
On 9/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You did: by putting the disc in. Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. Indeed, no. And putting a CD-ROM in doesn't mean I want to mount

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/09/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You did: by putting the disc in. Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. How is that bad logic?

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
I have a dream. A dream of unification. Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. But when you tell yourself that it cannot be done, you don't even try it. It would require people to not only do it for

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
I may sometimes want it mounted as /opt instead. SVR4 cruftiness in BSD?! I'm shocked! :-P ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/09/06, Gilbert Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dream. A dream of unification. Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. But when you tell yourself that it cannot be done, you don't

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would require people to not only do it for the sake of their projects, but for the whole BSD people. Even those who really piss you off in other projects. Because someday, those projects will live on without us. We'll pass on like everyone.

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Larry O'Neill
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: I have a dream. I have a reality A dream of unification. A reality involving separation Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. Having 3 different

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Anton Karpov
2006/9/1, Gilbert Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a dream. A dream of unification. Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. Opensource is about choice. If you don't like something, when fork it

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 01/09/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, should I then switch to Linux because they do welcome 'vendor written drivers'? If by 'vendor-written drivers' you mean binary-only drivers, then no, the linux kernel developers emphatically

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Charles M. Hannum
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:08:13AM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: They don't have to write device drivers at all, they just should write good documentation. Unfortunately, the documentation often isn't so hot either. I'll give you an example. Even with both code and documentation from Realtek,

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 01 September 2006 11:27, Charles M. Hannum wrote: On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:08:13AM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: They don't have to write device drivers at all, they just should write good documentation. Unfortunately, the documentation often isn't so hot either. I'll give

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Charles M. Hannum
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:01:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A chicken running around sans head is quite active. Not really the same thing as productive. What you don't see is that NetBSD is the chicken in your analogy. ___

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Harpalus a Como
I'm just a lurker on the OpenBSD list, but I think Charles is right about Linux. The code is better then people give it credit for, and considering it's vast popularity and what all it's accomplished, the bazaar model has worked wonders. I'm not advocating Linux, I'm just pointing out that

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Harpalus a Como wrote: I'm just a lurker on the OpenBSD list, but I think Charles is right about Linux. The code is better then people give it credit for, and considering it's vast popularity and what all it's accomplished, the bazaar model has worked wonders. I'm not

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread dereck
I'm just a lurker on the OpenBSD list, but I think Charles is right about Linux. The code is better then people give it credit for, and considering it's vast popularity and what all it's accomplished, the bazaar model has worked wonders. Well, the hype certainly put the zap on your head.

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Marc G. Fournier dixit: (Please don't keep individual persons in the Cc, only the lists, otherwise people will get the mails several times.) Put together a *BSD core ... representative from each camp and try and steer the *kernel* itself towards a more common BSD ... BSD is about an operating

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Ruhl
On 8/31/06, Thorsten Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. Bingo. Good point. This point is lost sometimes. I believe NetBSD has the proper philosophy in regards to the entire OS as well. I don't want apache built in, for instance. Andy

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Harpalus a Como wrote: I'm just a lurker on the OpenBSD list, but I think Charles is right about Linux. The code is better then people give it credit for, and considering it's vast popularity and what all it's

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
Andy Ruhl wrote: On 8/31/06, Thorsten Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. Bingo. Good point. This point is lost sometimes. I believe NetBSD has the proper philosophy in regards to the entire OS as well. I don't want apache built in, for

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Miod Vallat
Put together a *BSD core ... representative from each camp and try and steer the *kernel* itself towards a more common BSD ... BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. This is a common misconception. BSD is about people pissing each other, because they don't want to admit that

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Ruhl
On 8/31/06, Gilles Gravier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahem... so no Apache... but why games, X11, compiler? So don't install the games set, the X set, or the comp set if you don't want that stuff. I think the point I'm trying to make is, apache is certainly not something *most* people will use.

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread davide zanon
On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Miod Vallat wrote: BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. This is a common misconception. BSD is about people pissing each other, because they don't want to admit that other people can have different needs, goals, or ways of designing code,

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
On 8/31/06, dereck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Linux] are copying known work, shooting for a target that has already been hit. Hit by Mac OS X, perhaps. Which I can't install on my computer even if I wanted to: Apple won't let me. The target -- a user-friendly, reliable unix -- hasn't been hit

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Rahul Siddharthan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/06, dereck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Linux] are copying known work, shooting for a target that has already been hit. Hit by Mac OS X, perhaps. Which I can't install on my computer even if I wanted to: Apple won't let me. The

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If Yahoo (to pick the one big vendor I remember making a big thing of using a BSD) don't reincorporate their changes, perhaps that's because the license allows them not to? If you think that Yahoo! has

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 31 August 2006 14:47, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 31/08/06, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If Yahoo (to pick the one big vendor I remember making a big thing of using a BSD) don't reincorporate their changes, perhaps that's because the

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 14:47, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 31/08/06, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If Yahoo (to pick the one big vendor I remember making a big thing of using a BSD) don't

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Gilles Gravier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Ruhl wrote: The reason why apache and perl shouldn't be included is because they are moving, 3rd party targets. They are better suited to pkgsrc. And of course, GCC isn't... a moving 3rd party target? Gilles. Good point. It's

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Ruhl
On 8/31/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, defining (poorly) the OS to include so much else has been a liability for NetBSD in many ways. It has massively slowed the adoption of new software versions (e.g. GCC), for one. It also contributed to the perception that a better

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Andy Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, defining (poorly) the OS to include so much else has been a liability for NetBSD in many ways. It has massively slowed the adoption of new software versions (e.g. GCC), for one.

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Miod Vallat
Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Please don't Cc: people when you respond to mailing lists *sigh* Marc G. Fournier dixit: for us, they need to write 1. Companies don't write drivers for BSD 2. Companies don't even release specs so that people can write drivers for BSD //mirabile -- I believe no one can invent an

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Gilles Chehade
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all different goals... Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all different goals... Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for FreeBSD,

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Miod Vallat
I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need documentation for? To fix the driver. A given piece of source code can only been believed

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Pedro Martelletto wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ...

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote: I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need documentation for? To fix the driver. If the vendor

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Miod Vallat
If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community, then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports come in about it ... That's too many ifs to be realworld-compatible. And actually the only vendors I can think of which are working with the

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for FreeBSD,

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Marc G. Fournier dixit: If the vendor is bought up, bankrupt, out of business, dead (like that person who ported g++ to Plan 9, whose window managers' copyright is now set in stone), etc... you're SOL¹. //mirabile ¹) wtf knows it -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jason Dixon
On Aug 31, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Pedro Martelletto wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one*

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote: If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community, then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports come in about it ... That's too many ifs to be realworld-compatible. And actually the only vendors I can

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:01:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: In a perfect world, they all would ... this is not a perfect world, it is one dominated by Linux or Microsoft ... I use Adaptec drivers on 3 of my servers, because, in 4.x, they were rock solid ... in 6.x, they have a

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Gilles Chehade
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all different goals... Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Ted Unangst
On 8/31/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vendors should release documentation, not write drivers. In a perfect world, they all would ... this is not a perfect world, it is one dominated by Linux or Microsoft ... I use Adaptec drivers on 3 of my servers, because, in 4.x, they were

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Jason Dixon wrote: If everyone had your attitude, there would be no *BSD. Settling for good enough means never making progress. Who ever said settling for good enough? I know I didn't ... if I settled for good enough, I would have stuck it out with Linux years ago

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work. Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these lists that I may have offended ... but ... having

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Gilles Chehade
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work. Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these lists that I may have

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/09/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, should I then switch to Linux because they do welcome 'vendor written drivers'? If by 'vendor-written drivers' you mean binary-only drivers, then no, the linux kernel developers

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Gilles Chehade wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work. Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, davide zanon wrote: The reason why merging is impossible or stupid has been said some million times... Different goals. I'm curious here, but why did the *kernel* diverge for each project? Like, I understand (or think I do) the philosophy of the OpenBSD project, and

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
(When do you stop putting people into Cc instead of just the lists?) Marc G. Fournier dixit: source code drivers provided by a vendor, and supported by them Yeah, and what if the vendor goes out of business, is bought or simply bankrupt? You're pretty much SOL then. //mirabile -- I believe

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work. Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these lists that I may have offended ... but ... having clean source code to a driver is

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Marc G. Fournier dixit: I'm curious here, but why did the *kernel* diverge for each project? Because kernel, userland, ports and attitude come as a package, they cannot be separated, for together they are the operating system. //mirabile -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Gilles Chehade
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Gilles Chehade wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work. Maybe I'm missing something,

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm curious here, but why did the *kernel* diverge for each project? Like, I understand (or think I do) the philosophy of the OpenBSD project, and that is high security ... but, wouldn't the security improvements that go into the OpenBSD kernel not be applicable to

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:57:20PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need documentation for? To

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:03:04 -0300 (ADT), Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote: I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of documentation itself ... if

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Siju George
On 9/1/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all different goals... Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ...

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Siju George
On 9/1/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is no real reason ( in my opinion ) in exerting some Sorry Typo :-( ^^^in not exerting^^^ pressure on vendors to release the documentation. Actually it is for their benefit :-) Hope this

The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Charles M. Hannum
The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be done to attempt to

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. If true, unfortunate. A sad day. Jeff. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Andy Ball
Hello Charles, Some parts of your message seemed to be flames resulting from some past personality conflict that I know nothing about, so I won't comment further on those. Clearly you are more familiar with BSD internals than I am. I imagine others will pickup various technical points such as

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charles, Charles M. Hannum wrote: popularity in 1993 and 1994) have suffered similar problems. FreeBSD and XFree86, for example, have both forked successor projects (Dragonfly and X.org) for very similar reasons. I don't agree that Dragonfly

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Breen Ouellette
Charles M. Hannum wrote: [I'm CCing this to FreeBSD and OpenBSD lists in order to share it with the wider *BSD community, not to start a flame war. I hope that people reading it have the tact to be respectful of their peers, and consider how some of these issues may apply to them as well.]

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Breen Ouellette wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:22:59PM -0600: This really isn't relevant to OpenBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ head -n2 /var/run/dmesg.boot OpenBSD 3.9-stable (GENERIC) #2: Wed Aug 30 16:53:43 CEST 2006 [EMAIL

RE: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Tony
Andy Ruhl wrote: On 8/30/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has Let me start by saying I'm probably not qualified to reply to this thread, but I was never worried about making a fool out of myself before so