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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13788 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3707 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Date: 12 Oct 1994 20:01:06 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 29 Message-ID: <37hfa2$8mt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com> <36upob$ju6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com>, Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote: > I understand that Freebsd plans to use the > 4.4 release as it's base. > Don't you feel this will limit the potential of FreeBSD > as a development enviroment? Quite the contrary. I believe many of the advanced features of 4.4 will encourage FreeBSD development. > I've spoken to many people on this and they feel > that Chicago or Mach or maybe OS/2 might offer > better resources to applications programmers. If 'application resources' were the only criteria for running an operating system, we'd all be running DOS, since the application developement tools in DOS still blow away most of the development tools on all other operating systems. This is changing, but application development isn't the only thing out there. If your OS can't run your applications due to inherent limitations, then you need a different OS. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.