Bij Osnews is een interview verschenen met de FreeBSD maintainer. Dit interview is
opgezet uit een irc log en daarna herschreven.
Er worden vrij diepgaande vragen beantwoord en als je een beetje thuis ben in het OS
is het erg leuk om dit te weten.
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Wat leuke quote’s:
[quote]Jordan Hubbard: I think the coolest feature of 5.0 will be the ferret thread. This is a kernel thread which runs around throughout the system and randomly moves
things around, playfully changes file modes, “bites” through open connections and just generally raises havok. We feel that this feature will make the computer more of a pet
than a simple inanimate object.[/quote]
Hier ben ik het ook wel mee eens:
[quote]How do you feel about X windows ? Would it be feasable to mimick some of the better attributes of the OS X GUI with GNUStep or perhaps a BSD liscensed implementation?
Well, I certainly have been using the X window system for a long time and have written a fair amount of software for it; For what it does, it rocks but for what it doesn’t do, it really sucks.
Don’t even talk to me about font handling or printing. I think that before you’re going to see X really get some decent applications, you’re going to have to finish the missing 5% of X —
the part that was scheduled to take 90% of the time and so nobody got around to it. Plus, the whole UI war thing needs to end — Adobe is never going to port photoshop while nobody can answer “Which
GUI environment is dominant and therefore recommended for use?”. I think X will probably remain the DOS of window systems.[/quote]
Volg deze [url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=676&page=all]link[/url] voor het interview.