On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Mahesh Aravind <[email protected]> wrote: > > But I should respectfully disagree with you about supporting exotic platforms, > which is a waste of manpower, and could be concluded as nothing less than a > hobby and time-pass. >
Friend, I guess you know that in Open Source people do voluntary work ? They may have good reasons, ( which quite possibly your knowing/ignorance does not understand ) to support those architectures. Don't be haste to call ia waste of "man power" :-) >> >> http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ >> > > VAX? rofl! > Yes This reminds me of a story. When I came from the Engineering College and told my younger that a particular model of KSRTC bus ws designed by a group Engineering College Students he also ROFL. You don't know the amount of time he teased me telling that that design was there even before that Engineering College started. Well I asked him what he meant by design and he said the "outward shape or form". He was right. From his knowledge design was limited to the outward appearence. Then I told him I also used to have that idea till I joined Engineering College but then I understood that what actually matterred in design was the internal structure, the strength the specification of material, limits, fits and tolerences etc. So when you rofl it is no wonder from your limited knowledge about VAX you can only do that. "due to its unique MMU features, it is a very good platform to exercise all mmap(2)-based developments, such as malloc(3) implementation, which was refined on a VAXstation 4000/VLC. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-vax&m=116040877906491&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-vax&m=116041884315058&w=2 http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060825232507 but since you may not be that great a programmer you can rofl :-) go ahead dude :-) >> On a broad basis you can say it **supports 57 differrent Hardware > Platforms**. > > How can the number of platforms can be directly proportional to the quality of > the operating system/kernel? > >> >> You tell me with proof How many hardware platforms Linux Support? >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_supported_architectures > > Keep that smile :) > thanks :-) I guess that is 21 for Linux and 57 for BSD? I hope it won't be too difficult for you to admint BSD is not lagging behind in this aspect? >> 10) Is it right to sign an NDA with a vendor inorder to support their >> hardware i one's OS? > > But yes, there IS an issue with writing a GPL-driver after signing NDA. > > Reading more about it. > So is Singing NDA right or wrong? Please tell us after you finish reading about it :-D >> It would be great if you can also read on some of these things so you >> don't have to fall into the trap of being indoctrinated by a single >> induvidal :-) >> > > Whatever links you post are from a pro-BSD or BSD sites. People post > differentiated opinions elsewhere. Pro-Linux/Pro-GNU sites are bashing BSDs. > Half-empty-half-full glass? Caveat User! > don't jump up and accuse so fast :-) I chose Undeadly because as I mentioned it is aggregated there. The real links are from slahdot ( more pro linux than bsd ) and other public mailinlists. If a thing is true does it matter that it is on a BSD list? Is the sole fact that some thing is on a BSD list reason enoug to ignore/discard/bash it? If I am wrong please correct me from pro-linux websites :-) > >> The Intel platform we use commonly are some times considered buggy and >> is totally discarded for certain uses. > > Agreed with you 200% > need a vax? ;-) http://www.openbsd.org/vax-simh.html cheer up! --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
