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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 13 Jul 1994 23:03:08 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 37 Message-ID: <301rrc$cmv@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu In article <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net>, Paul Southworth <pauls@locust.cic.net> wrote: >>come out this month. I hope so --- FreeBSD has had several good >>releases in that same period. > >...on one platform... > >>I think FreeBSD has got just about the right release cycle going, and >>NetBSD would do well to emulate that particular behaviour. > >Thankfully that's how it is, and now NetBSD runs on many machines, with >development progressing in leaps as committed individuals produce and I hope that this kind of comments do not allure FreeBSD core team to start FreeBSD development on other platforms, and that they concentrate on making only 386 version more stable, supporting more devices, ...etc. I was always curious why they want to run BSD on a McIntosh, or Amiga. If I can have a graphic environment (X11) with BSD on Mac or Amiga, it may be OK. If I want the unix on McIntosh, I should be able to run unix on top of Mac OS, run X11 window, communicate between Mac and Unix system using graphic environment. Then this would be great. I just can't think of the situation like : running BSD on McIntosh in tty mode and saying "This is great !!!". (This could have been really great ten years ago) Even though it is better to run on more platforms, I would hate if FreeBSD core team creates the above kind of comedy, wasting their time and efforts (I do not mean that they should totally stop thinking of it. FreeBSD should be designed as portable as possible). -- Woody Jin