Bill, I'm a staunch FreeBSD supporter (*BSD in general as my second choice) BUT, I see some things in Linux that although they aren't mature enough for my taste, I'd welcome similar initiatives in FreeBSD - one however is a bit of a sticking point for Courier, and that is FAM's kernel support.
Implementing this in FreeBSD would require a modification to FAM (better as FreeBSD's kqueue events are more robust than Linux's inode monitoring) but this is not the route the FAM guys are trying to push things - they want everyone to emulate the Linux event scheme. Lack of this support means that right now I would imagine (though I think we'd have trouble finding the users to support this) that Linux will be able keep more users more seemlessly notified with IDLE support. Don't think this is a breaking point for anyone who uses FreeBSD, but if there are any C wizards itching for a challenge, a hack to FAM would be welcome and make a better case for BSD as the primary platform. cheers. m/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Hacker Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [courier-users] Re: The end of RedHat... ACK. FreeBSD & OS X (& OS/2 + emx) here. Ultra cautious, or just lazy, I guess - I value what sleep I can get. Found that article later, but missed the significance, as I encounter RH mostly server-side in the SME anyway - rare now on the DT. IMNSHO, the community *needs* and should value Linux-archy for the creativity it fosters, even if we choose to run the results of that on *BSD, OS X, or OS/2 for stability. - But I suspect RH's move may signal the beginning of a major contraction w/r 'commercial' packaging of Linux at the consumer end in general. Ubiquitous broadband + MS dominance... With what? 100+? distros of Linux now, sure wish we could entice Sam to move to the *BSD's as a dev platform. I haven't needed to install or turn on the Linux-binaries interface in FreeBSD in nearly two years now, and suspect that moving a build/tarball/RPM from *BSD back to Linux would be at least as easy as the reverse... Bill Hacker ============= Dan wrote: > Here is the what I was referring to: > > http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml > > I am a NetBSD person myself. The reason I asked Sam is because he has said in > the past that he does development on a RedHat system. If I ever have a problem > with a build I will usually try the same thing on the OS he recommends to make > sure it isn't something NetBSD specific before reporting the problem. > > Dan > > ----- Original Message ----- *SNIP* >> >>But no other news have I seen that spells 'the end of RedHat' - "..as we *SNIP* >>Bill Hacker ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
