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OS News Interview with Robert Watson

Posted by timothy on from the details-and-philosophy dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "OS News is carrying an interview with Robert Watson about FreeBSD 4.5, due out almost immediately, and FreeBSD 5.0, due out later this year. He talks a little about the related kernel development work between Linux and FreeBSD, including kernel preemption. Apparently he even reads the linux-kernel mailing list, although he complained about the volume."

2 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Looks great by xphase · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does anyone here know if FreeBSD is committed to adopting NetBSD's rc system by some specified release? 4.5? 5.0?

    According to JKH, there is no definate plan for the integration, so it may never happen. There is currently an rc system used by FreeBSD, and it(as well as NetBSD's) are completely different ideas than the way SysV init works. There are some that don't like the way init works.

    I believe 5.0 will bring FreeBSD's kernel up to rough parity with the Linux kernel.

    Many will agree that in some areas FreeBSD's kernel is superior to the linux kernel, and in some areas it is lacking. I don't think that there will ever be a rough parity between the two. I think that FreeBSD will always be better at some things while linux will be better at others.

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  2. Re:Looks great by Ded+Bob · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to JKH, there is no definate plan for the integration, so it may never happen.

    Actually, it might. From the JKH interview:

    [23:39] I think the NetBSD startup stuff, for example, is pretty cool
    [23:39] we're just trying to find enough bodies to finish that
    [23:39] (the merge)