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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:23:47 +0100
From:      Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Scott Mitchell <rsm@acm.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: compatibility list
Message-ID:  <6944.921097427@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:59:46 %2B0100." <32673.921092386@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
 |In message <19990310181537.16981@goatsucker.org>, Scott Mitchell writes:
 |
 |>Of course all this is beside the point if FreeBSD is just a 'server
 |>focused' OS, and no-one on the core team really gives a shit about pushing
 |>desktop, let alone laptop, support. 
 |
 |I will let my .signature speak for me on this one.
 |
 |--
 |Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
 |phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
 |FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


pt1
May i  ask what "other" people are supposed to run on their laptops?
i think this attitude will completely marginalise FreeBSD
and (me too) i wouldn't like to see this happen

pt2
even if support is not there (yet) imho it is *crucial* for attracting new users that there is a clear/official/honest declaration of what a new user should expect to be working
i suggest that  "documentation"  probably  is more important than development for  acquiring larger user base and making the project succesful

pt3
the fact that McKusick, Stevensvol2 books are out there is a great advantage for FreeBSD, but i don't want to think about what's going to happen if someone publishes a book for linux networking internals sometime soon

Thanks
Panos  







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