js wrote: > > 2006/4/28, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I wonder why http://www.openbsd.org/books.html still recommend old > > > daemon book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating > > > System? > > > As most of you know, there's newer version, The Design and > > > Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. > > > > Because the old book is still more relevant to what we do. > > > > I thought Changes from 4.4 BSD to FreeBSD is 'upgrade' in many ways, > and so is the books. > > you're saying newer doesn't necessarily mean evolving, even in BSD world? > or OpenBSD is 'obsolete' in some ways compared with FreeBSD? > > I don't want to start holy war, but just out of curiosity.
The state of the art of computer science has gone (steadily?) downhill for the last 30 (maybe 40) years. The computers are bigger and faster, but the knowedge of what to do with them has decayed. There are a few pockets of resistance to the decay.
