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Nov 22 13:28 UTC 2006 |
I think it was more like Matt Dillon had serious disagreements over the *way*
SMP was being implemented, not the pace. Given the legendarily borked FBSD
5, if what has made 6 a success is a change to its SMP code, he was probably
right - but as I said, FBSD 6 has now redeemed the project.
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Dec 5 09:33 UTC 2014 |
Hello, My name is Marcin, and I came from Poland.
My first 'real' OS was a NetBSD 1.5; that I installed years ago on my
486/40Mhz box with 4 MB of memory.
Linux Red Hat that I tried to run, was requesting to much disk space
[250 MB - that was my beloved hdd] so I was forced to seek replacement
for it. After some time I finally found it in NetBSD project.
For the first two-three years I doesn't use any X window manager instead
normal console work was done by me, programming in shell/C, do irc
botnet mange work, and some BSD research, and games :)
In Poland at that time when I've got this PC [in late 2001], Internet
connection was situated to 'kid user' at luxury level.
So I spend lot of time in local Library reading many books and articles
about the computer related stuff, especially I focused on Richard
Stevens TCP/IP Protoko y tom 1, [Protocols vol. 1], translated and
published in Poland in 1998 [the second edition was done by Helion in
2013... :)], these book become one of the first real deal publications
that I have read from the first to the last page, the next book that
gave me a thrill was published in 1999 Programowanie w rodowisku
systemu UNIX, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, also written
by Stevens.
It is really sad that Such a great Mind has passed away...
NetBSD was the OS that helped me understand the basic ideas that were
stated in late 50'. of the XX century by the MIT professor Fernando Jos
Corbat , whose Compatible Time Sharing System [CTSS] was the first ever
that shears the ideas of modern interactive computing. There is even an
proverb that says:
Before Corby: No Timesharing.
After Corby: Timesharing.
[based on multicians.org]
Today I still use NetBSD, mostly to learn kernel internals on my 'jet'
PowerEdge 750.
By the way, Jolitz, William F. and Jolitz, Lynne Greer: Porting UNIX to
the 386: A Practical Approach, 18-part series in Dr. Dobbs Journal,
January 1991 - July 1992 - these is a great story, about how the basic
system works, especially do to the xBSD family tree.
Greetings to All!
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