> Do you want to contribute and do all the actual dirty work for once, > or you're just here to talk and give your random opinions on things > you've never invested yourself in? What is your background? What is > your portfolio?
You're right that I'm not particularly invested in the original issue; I don't use Linux compatability myself and I don't run NetBSD more recent than 5.2 on my own machines (at one of my jobs it looks as though 8.0 will get used - the reasons I don't run it don't apply there). I got involved in this thread because invalid "arguments" like made-up usage statistics bother me. I'm not opposed to the change per se (I'm not sure whether I think it would actually be a good thing); I'm opposed to doing it for specious reasons like "<1% users interested". My background? B.Sc. mathematics major, computer science minor. Programming since the late '70s, been making my living programming and/or sysadminning since 1984. Been involved with UNIX as a user since BSD 4.1c, with NetBSD since shortly before the split that led to OpenBSD. My portfolio? Look for "der Mouse" in mail-index.n.o's archives for my past presence on the lists (including source-changes for what I did back when I was still committing). Look for mo...@rodents-montreal.org for my presence after I dropped the "der" - possibly mo...@rodents.montreal.qc.ca too; I forget which change occurred first. Look at ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/git-repos and clone whichever of them you care to. Perhaps the most notable ones are moussh, git-interactive, livebackup, Mouse/games/blockade, Mouse/dreamcast, Mouse/mousemuck, Mouse/vax-emul, Mouse/netbsd-fork/*. Historically, there's also Mouse-X (an X implementation for 2bpp NeXT hardware - that one isn't a git repo AFAIK). Look at ftp.rodents-montreal.org; much of what's there is old versions of stuff I now keep in git repos (I really kneed to clean it up), but there's probably at least a little other stuff there. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B