On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, David Boyes wrote:
Hi,
z/OpenBSD -- wibni?
Yeah, it would. I just don't think anyone's got the spare time to spend
on something that has even less commercial support than Linux and
OpenSolaris.
While I admit that time is a determining factor for an individual, you know
how much (time) a port costs and ...
The problem is that it's not the "oh it boots and gets to single user
and...", multiuser, networking, drivers,... but then it's QA, keep it
running, bundle it, adopt apps, mgmt apps, write docs, guides, ..., support
it. Teams, more people, different temas, PYs PYs PYs. Lot's of consulting
hours to sell to migrate Sparc people to z aeh linux and solaris to BSD on z;)
OpenBSD would be fun, ...
On the other hand another problem I see for going BSD(*) (even for fun) is the
lack of (public) documentation - I don't mean principle of operations or the
like but OSA*/HS/crypto/... for example. I guess if getting there, that would
not be a problem anymore - at least with 3-letters-paper.
As I understand there is the linux source for some of that or only .[oh]s for
others according to my readings of webpages. Reading between the lines you'll
find I never investigated in detail - for a reason.
CTCA for hercules would be for pure fun but I always worry what would be
next if one gets there? To keep this relevant to this list - Would the
answer be 'find someone and go for VM'?
/bz
PS: (*) not speaking here of a specific BSD to avoid a `bikeshed'
discussion[1].
References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed
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