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From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak $ehari)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The only way to keep FreeBSD viable in competition with linux
Date: 25 Dec 96 20:10:18 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
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In <59oh2g$brm@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>sehari@iastate.edu (Babak $ehari) wrote:
>> Here is what's needed:
>>
>> - Creation of specialized task forces, as follows:
>Then go, and create them! :-)
I will, but the fact is I need an official authorization to do that
under FreeBSD, Inc. name. I thought of heading at least part of these
task forces. However, in some other areas I am not the best person.
I am a Ph. D. student in Electrical Engineering (micro-electronics)
so I am not that familier with device driver writing, or
porting complicated applications. Even though, I love to learn and tell you
the truth I have learned a lot by installing and running the FreeBSD.
We need some experienced unix programmers to head the porting and device
task force. I can help in organizing mass nagging campains to encourage
OEMs to develop FreeBSD drivers for their products. Also I can organize
24 hour help desk on the IRC, and help in fund raising for the FreeBSD.
As I said I need official autorization to this under the FreeBSD, Inc.
name.
With highest regards,
Babak E. Sehari
>Don't forget telling them that they gotta _maintain_ their code,
>however... I'm not positive we would like to see drivers for every
>hardware crap that ever popped up in the dreaded PeeCee world, for
>example. If we could cover just 10 % of the hardware with excellent
>drivers, and another 10 or 20 % with drivers being under development,
>i think we'd get very much.
>No, we don't wanna become ``a better Linux''. This way has already
>proven to be a dead-end street. There are both systems, both have
>pros and cons, and i think both somehow got a driving force by their
>mutual de-facto competition.
>--
>cheers, J"org
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)