27 Aug
2019
27 Aug
'19
6:05 a.m.
Hello!
Oh dear.
At the very first Linux conference in NYC, I caught up with the NetBSD
group there, and suggested something-of-a-sort. Let's just say that
the person there is probably still active on their lists, and
sometimes comes across as someone even Larry wouldn't like very much.
I tried again after he stopped behaving like someone from a movie we
all know, and I asked again. His response was similar. I put it down
to extreme jet lag.
Adam if your interested please ask off list.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:55 AM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 26, 2019, at 7:39 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:16:58PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
But I got to meet at least
one very toxic personality in person which immediately turned me away
from that offer --- and I got my start on BSD 4.3 with Project Athena.
(For all that people used to like to complain about Linus's e-mail
persona, I *much* preferred to work with Linus than with some of the
personalities in the *BSD/HURD communities.)
I agree with Ted and I'm seeing it to this day, I hang with some BSD
folks and they spend way too much time complaining about people.
Yeah, this. I don’t know about these days, but….
End of the 90s, early 2000s, I was deeply involved in the Linux port to System/390 and
then zSeries. Sometime, probably ’99, maybe ’00, I went to a Linux conference in Atlanta;
I talked a little about Linux on S/390 and the things we were looking for help with.
And I went to the NetBSD booth. I mean, even then, NetBSD’s thing was that it ran on all
sorts of architectures. So I introduced myself, to say, “hey, if you guys want a
development environment to hammer out a S/390 port, I can probably hook you up.” What I
got was a btiter rant about Linux’s “so-called portability” and I was basically told to
FOAD.
That was…quite a surprise, having been working in a mostly-supportive community, albeit
one in which the manufacturer was pretty dubious about the port.
Adam