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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 24 Jul 1995 18:16:36 GMT
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
>In article <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at>,
>Martin Birgmeier <martin@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> 2) FreeBSD developers are more or less reinventing the wheel, and even
>>    that wheel is basically from the stone-age of OSs as well... I
>>    understand that there is going a large amount of effort into making
>>    FreeBSD an advanced Unix system (unified buffer cache comes to mind),
>>    but basically it's still the same old story.
>
>FreeBSD *is* an advanced UNIX system.
>
>> 1) In order to separate FreeBSD from the rest of the free Unix efforts,
>>    merge with Lites as developed by Johannes Helander *as soon as
>>    possible*
>
>I would rather not. FreeBSD runs in 4M of RAM. It's totally solid and fast
>with X in 16M. Going to Lites will probably double the kernel size and make
>a serious impact on memory requirements.
>-- 

I am not sure that Lites would buy us anything ... In fact initially it will
be like running 386bsd alpha which is not a very good prospect after taking
the 4.4 bsd upgrade path hit.

Oh, and I ran Lites/FreeBSD and managed to run doom under FreeBSD/Lites.
No X server though because at the time there was not X server readily
available for Lites and I didn't feel like compiling one for Lites and
the FreeBSD X server didn't run with Lites so it was back to 101 for X
servers. Yes, I heard that the Lites group had X running but my impression
was that it was not well supported and that they didn't use that much.

If anyone wants perl, tcl/tk, guile,etc.. they can compile it or add the
package
to their system is really not a big deal. Think of a package like an
option for your system. To add a package download it from the net or cd
to your FreeBSD cdrom distribution and type "pkg_add <whatever>".

	Amancio