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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Could the BSD 4.4 Lite be a new beginning? Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 02:58:31 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <R60q1p-.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <HSU.94Feb14043905@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> writes: >I'm still somewhat angry and depressed of the current situation, and this >problem is not getting any better with time, but turning up more and more >often. We are now running NetBSD 0.9, and it is clear that we need to go >to some other operating system because of the stability problems in it. We Hi, I am John Dyson, a core team member of FreeBSD. We have done alot to make the FreeBSD OS much more stable. We do have some minor limitations in some areas relative to other BSD variants or Linux, but likewise they have some too. I am never into being religious or opinionated, but I strongly suggest trying FreeBSD. The new release that is about to come up addresses one of the major problems regarding stability, the VM system. We have almost totally redone broken portions of the VM system and support both swapping and paging, a very good LRU/Clock algorithm for paging, optimized pmap code, multi-page cluster pageins, bypassing the buffer cache for paging in, and lots and lots of bug fixes. We actually have people that truely understand the VM system, and our if_ed driver, written by our team member, David Greenman, is *very* reliable and attains THE ethernet bandwidth. The sound driver that we support is very good (as I have heard.) Our interrupt latency is very short and we can sustain very high interrupt rates. We are dedicated to product quality code and do have a lot of future goals. Our software is open and currently keep our latest development sources available for everyone to read. If you have any questions, email me at dyson@implode.root.com (that is where I usually use email.) I realize that this does not answer your question about the BSD consortium, but sometimes diversity can lead to more creativity due to competition. The new release will be out in a couple of weeks, but current sources look good. Let me know if you are interested... John dyson@implode.root.com