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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!refugee.engr.sgi.com!sca From: sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com (Steve Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:20:40 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5hrqmo$44f@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <333F45A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5hplcv$6lf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3340C3F0.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: sca@sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: fddi-refugee.engr.sgi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38217 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6535 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29583 In article <3340C3F0.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >Assembling a team of individuals >with just the right combination of significant commercial experience and >youthful vigor over these last 3+ years has been no easy task, and now >that we've taken our lumps and learned many of our lessons the hard way >it's hardly the time to say "well, we certainly did a fine job with this >team and it seems to be working out nicely. OK, time for us all to quit >and do something else. :-)" Maybe. It depends on your goals. If your goal is to hack the kernel and learn some stuff, then no problem, keep going. If your goal is to create a single viable UNIX, then it might make sense to let BSD wither and put more support behind Linux, since having several different free UNIX versions is not the road to long-term success, IMO. I just find it interesting that from where I'm sitting, which is admittedly pretty far removed, I don't see any compelling features in the BSD-derived UNIX versions, except that they came from BSD at some point, which has very little value for me personally. But since the last thing I want to do when I go home is see UNIX, it's all just a thought exercise for me ;-> -- Steve Alexander | Silicon Graphics, Inc. | +1 (415) 933-6172 (Voice) sca@sgi.com | http://reality.sgi.com/sca | +1 (415) 933-0513 (FAX) "O2: Ignite Your Toast."