I understand that a total re-write was necessary,. However, the more successful open-source projects all started with working code, and only used open-source to extend it, or to replace bits at a time. All the abandoned projects are usually the ones that went open-source when all they had was the idea. Freeping Creaturism is also probably to blame, since there was no reality (code).
I think Mozilla 5 will succeed, but that for version 6, there'll be way more non-netscape people involved, as people add little bits here and there, optimize this and that, and generally mutate Mozilla into a more advanced life form than a Sea Monkey.
Some of the admited architectural weak points worry me, especially with large files. I'm worried Resierfs is a niche filesystem, great for systems comprised of small files, but not really industrial strength. However, I'm not acquainted with some of the finer points and numerous "common" optimizations he refers to, so I could be wrong.
Reiserfs and XFS both being released so close together might divide the rather small pool of Linux filesystem hackers who are qualified to merge all these ideas into something workable. Plus, I haven't grasped either to the extent that I can tell if they're able to be merged.
To some up, I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm nervous nonetheless.
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I understand that a total re-write was necessary,. However, the more successful open-source projects all started with working code, and only used open-source to extend it, or to replace bits at a time. All the abandoned projects are usually the ones that went open-source when all they had was the idea. Freeping Creaturism is also probably to blame, since there was no reality (code).
I think Mozilla 5 will succeed, but that for version 6, there'll be way more non-netscape people involved, as people add little bits here and there, optimize this and that, and generally mutate Mozilla into a more advanced life form than a Sea Monkey.
Some of the admited architectural weak points worry me, especially with large files. I'm worried Resierfs is a niche filesystem, great for systems comprised of small files, but not really industrial strength. However, I'm not acquainted with some of the finer points and numerous "common" optimizations he refers to, so I could be wrong.
Reiserfs and XFS both being released so close together might divide the rather small pool of Linux filesystem hackers who are qualified to merge all these ideas into something workable. Plus, I haven't grasped either to the extent that I can tell if they're able to be merged.
To some up, I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm nervous nonetheless.