Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Joe Shevland joe.shevl...@gmail.com writes: My thoughts are below - remembering its a volunteer project, people spend their precious time to make it happen, and noneofthatwisthandingitsstilldamngood: a) if you don't like it, fix it. b) if you can't fix it, pay someone else to fix it c) if

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Andriy Gapon
The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that some old FreeBSD users get tired from those changes, those removals, lesser POLA adherence, marketing-not-technical-stuff for time-not-feature-based releases, not so stable -STABLE as it used to be, and so on,

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Andriy Gapon! On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:39:53 +0300; Andriy Gapon wrote about 'Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon': The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that some old FreeBSD users get tired from those changes, those removals, lesser POLA

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 21/09/2010 15:36 Vadim Goncharov said the following: Hi Andriy Gapon! On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:39:53 +0300; Andriy Gapon wrote about 'Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon': The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that some old FreeBSD users

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 2010-09-21 13:39, Andriy Gapon wrote: The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that some old FreeBSD users get tired from those changes, those removals, lesser POLA adherence, marketing-not-technical-stuff for time-not-feature-based releases, not so stable

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: [...] If you want to shape the future of the project, then participate in the places where the future is shaped.  If you want to know what's coming up in the future, then watch the places where the future is shaped.  If you

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:59:46PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 2010-09-21 13:39, {some mysterious person :-)} wrote: The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that some old FreeBSD users get tired from those changes, those removals, lesser POLA adherence,

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 2010-09-21 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:59:46PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 2010-09-21 13:39, {some mysterious person :-)} wrote: The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that some old FreeBSD users get tired from those

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Willem Jan Withagen! On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:59:46 +0200; Willem Jan Withagen wrote about 'Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon': I'm a FreeBSD user as early as 1993, still have the first 1.0 CD here as nice remembrance. So I guess that I qualify as one of those old

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Andriy Gapon! On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:53:56 +0300; Andriy Gapon wrote about 'Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon': Hmm, it's really simple. If you want to shape the future of the project, then participate in the places where the future is shaped. If you want to know

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Vadim Goncharov vadim_nucli...@mail.ru wrote: I give up. Thank $DEITY. Cheers Tom ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Joe Shevland
On 21/09/2010 11:49 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 2010-09-21 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:59:46PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 2010-09-21 13:39, {some mysterious person :-)} wrote: The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/21/2010 6:54 AM, Vadim Goncharov wrote: This thread, to this moment, has one practical statement: calls for volunteers and other major notifications should go to announce@, perhaps to Web site, too ... and since you've made that point, and several people in the project leadership have

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-19 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Vadim Goncharov wrote: Which part of support for the Giant lock *over the network stack* was removed [emphasis mine] do you not understand? No, component removed was (1), I've underlined. The reason is performance for overall network stack, not ideology. For a

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-08 Thread Mark Linimon
The reason is performance for overall network stack, not ideology. For a practical reasons, it works but slow is better than doesn't work at all (due to absence of code in the src tree). Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast. In that order, know this? Sacrificing work for fast?.. Hmm,

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Robert Watson! On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 11:47:29 +0100 (BST); Robert Watson wrote about 'Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon': It seems code exists :-) http://old.nabble.com/ISDN4BSD-on-8-current-td23919925.html ISDN4BSD package has been updated to compile on FreeBSD 8

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/09/2010 13:38 Vadim Goncharov said the following: Just to clarify things a little for those following it: the original I4B code was removed for entirely practical reasons: it couldn't run without the Giant lock, and support for the Giant lock over the network stack was removed.

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
P.S. why is security@ in cc: ? Original announcement: Message-id: 4c7e71dc.1040...@freebsd.org From: FreeBSD Security Officer cperc...@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:31:40 -0700 (17:31 CEST) To: FreeBSD Stable freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd security

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread Vadim Goncharov
07.09.10 @ 18:53 Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/09/2010 13:38 Vadim Goncharov said the following: Just to clarify things a little for those following it: the original I4B code was removed ^ (1) for entirely practical reasons: it couldn't run without the Giant

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/07/2010 02:31 PM, Vadim Goncharov wrote: 07.09.10 @ 18:53 Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/09/2010 13:38 Vadim Goncharov said the following: Just to clarify things a little for those following it: the original I4B code was removed ^ (1) for entirely practical

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-07 Thread vwe
[removed security@ which is not nearly related to topic] On 09/07/10 23:31, Vadim Goncharov wrote: 07.09.10 @ 18:53 Andriy Gapon wrote: The reason is performance for overall network stack, not ideology. For a practical reasons, it works but slow is better than doesn't work at all (due to

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: - Or whatever other method to get ISDN back in kernel ? It seems code exists :-) http://old.nabble.com/ISDN4BSD-on-8-current-td23919925.html ISDN4BSD package has been updated to compile on FreeBSD 8-current

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. DSL is faster than ISDN, but Losing ISDN would be unfortunate: - Not all can get DSL speed, if they live far from phone exchange. - ISDN

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ? - FreeBSD foundation paying a FreeBSD consultant (I know one who has the expertise already, has the

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 18:53:46 Julian H. Stacey wrote: FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ? - FreeBSD foundation paying a

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Masson
Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com writes: Hello, FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. It seems that hps@ maintains an isdn stack outside of freebsd tree : http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/isdn4bsd/ Regards Éric Masson -- Une RedHat (je ne connais pas les autres distributions)

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 18:53:46 Julian H. Stacey wrote: FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ?

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread volker
[trimmed cc list] Julian, On 09/01/10 18:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their FreeBSD -7 -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. Somebody told you wrong. There's still i4b code in 7-STABLE.

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: vol...@vwsoft.com Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:10:32 +0200 Message-id: 4c7ec148.9040...@vwsoft.com vol...@vwsoft.com wrote: [trimmed cc list] Julian, On 09/01/10 18:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will