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FreeBSD Looks Ahead to 6.0
I was catching up on mailing list archives when I came across an announcement from Scott Long of FreeBSD's release engineering team, noting that after the rather substantial amount of time that it took to take FreeBSD 5 to a -STABLE designation, their release schedule will be speeding up in the future. With the official release of FreeBSD 5.3 coming Real Soon Now, a new branch for 6.0 is now tentatively scheduled for mid-2005. It would seem that while the version numbers may increase more rapidly, so will the rate at which new features are merged from -CURRENT, so end users can get new features faster.
That could potentially be an issue, but it's also possible for a group of developers to work on their own branch, bringing in changes from CURRENT from time to time. SMP on OpenBSD took longer than the 6-month release interval, so there was a seperate SMP branch until the work was close enough to completion to make it into a release.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
MFCed stands for "Merged From Current". It means that something from -CURRENT was backported to -STABLE. For example, if bugs are found in something while working on FreeBSD-6 and they exist in FreeBSD-5, the fixes from FreeBSD-6 might be MFCed to fix the problem in FreeBSD-5.
I think there was a typo in your post.
Surely you meant "Operating systems copied and rebranded by T. Hawkins: 1".
-If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
How many enterprise ready operating systems have you written?
And I see that you've written *none*! All you've done is take FreeBSD and tweak it bit here and there. That is a much different thing from writing an operating system.
Maybe my only claim to fame is homebrewing software (not counting the real time embedded systems software I do at work), but at least I'm secure enough not to feel the need to engage in casting puerile aspersions at my competitors.
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I was going to look up what "several fortune 100 companies" were using HawkinsOS, but apparently the demand is so high it's swamped your server.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
You're getting rather pathetic... 1) Gvinum works and the RAID5 bug have been fixed in 5-STABLE stoopido! Anyone who is advanced anough to use RAID5 and vinum knows how to fix this issue by updating to latest 5-STABLE! 2) ULE patches are available that fixes things as well. If you feel the need to use ULE just grab'em or wait until ULE is MFC'd. Now please be so kind to eat shit or release those patches that you "claim" to have. If you even have anything... In your case, seeing is believing and we ain't seen nothing but whining yet from you. So either you put up or you STFU!
Life is what happened when Good Intentions met Harsh Reality (the brother of the more infamous Chaos).