Giving Birth to xMach

KellyM writes "'I've spent the last three days fixing compile-time bugs with xMach, and I'm currently testing using a copy of VMware running FreeBSD. The code compiled so cleanly that a stable release was inevitable, allowing me to finally start doing some of the new innovative work I dreamed up years ago, when my SPARC (since dead due to a battery issue) glowed with warmth onto me, and inspired me to create. Who knows -- we might make something useful out of xMach yet. It's certainly come a long way from seed to sprout; as its stalk strengthens, I hope to help it blossom into the full beauty of the great scheme hatched years ago. '"

Re:If you did do as you stated

[[egal]]

Well, I think he has (at least) some points, thought his arguments are not really backed, but, I feel the same about Net/Open BSD. I'd rather see more developers engaged in FreeBSD. That way the community could focus on one project, and important code changes/rewrites could be acomplished much faster.It would also help people to help others, because configuration would be more unified.

I'm employing FreeBSD on _all_ our firewalls, and it's a charm! And that impressed quite some of my mates, at least 20% switched thier servers to FreeBSD as well. Finaly, I don't think BSD is dead, but I do think as Linux gets more attention, *BSD might loose some share. As to the elitist nature of *BSD communities, I just think, that it rises the bar for stupid questions, which helps a lot. That way user learn to help themselfe, and reale trouble has the nessesary ressources if needed.
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argh!

[ameoba]

About 3mo ago, I had to pick an open-source OS project to work on for a class project. I had narrowed down my choice to xMach + v2OS.

-great-

V2 has 'died' several times since then, and mostly stagnated, while xmach is getting posted on slashdot... such is life, I guess...

But...

[jmallett]

But I already got this posted on the front page =) I was really hoping not to get on Slashdot again until we did a release, let alone for my oso article =)
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