Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pull-Henning Kunt wrote:
Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later lead to his expulsion (1)
(1) http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/03/239238.shtml?tid=122&tid=156
You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work.
Pull-Henning Kunt FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a kill da jews.
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