From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 3 10: 7:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC21E37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343D543F79 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0144.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.144] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18fkzz-0007JH-00; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:07:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3E3EAF82.E0F19A11@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:05:54 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: David Yeske , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver("fla"). References: <20030202222042.3444.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4aa8a958cfeca948ac54b830134491e983ca473d225a0f487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > David Yeske writes: > > I still use this. Users will not suddenly quit using hardware that > > works, they will start using a different OS that works with it, or > > they will be stuck trying to continue to support an old version of > > FreeBSD because it works with it. > > Read the announcement again. FreeBSD 5.x will still have DoC support, > which means you have at least two years to grow tired of it before we > stop putting out 5.x releases. By that time you will hopefully have > realised it is a dead-end technology and switched to something that > works. Why announce an intent to kill something that works? Do we just not "like" DoC, as a matter of public policy? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message