From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 17:58:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05806 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05799 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA01701; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:57:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Mike Smith cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: <199811111937.LAA04505@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I can see we are simply of two minds on this issue. :) What do some of > > > the others think? > > > > While I agree with the silly name, I think we are approaching another > > gratuitous change. It is our history, /usr/mdec is where people are used > > to looking, ... > > It is our history to have buggy NFS. It is our history to have a > bogus kernel module subsystem. It is our history to play catch-up to > Linux. When we "catch up" to Linux, for every advance, we always have a better-implemented version of whatever new has been gotten on Linux. Maybe except for NFS.... but that's being working on, eh? > > The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it > seems. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > Cheers, Brian Feldman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message