From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 8 16:23:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (unknown [208.149.16.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7870714FF8 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA03914; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:22:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alk) From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:22:13 -0600 (CST) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: dcs@newsguy.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: base64 References: <14048.10089.598598.919239@avalon.east> <36E07AEC.101F3467@newsguy.com> <14048.48864.918087.631128@avalon.east> <19990306095927.B53145@kudra.com> <14049.29637.311448.247778@avalon.east> <36E3BC09.84D33D1E@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14052.3661.72448.560855@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Daniel C. Sobral on Mon, 8 March: : : 1) You cannot even do a network installation on some of the networks : requiring DHCP. So install dhcp if you want to do a network installation? Mutatis mutandis. : This argument does not make sense. If these distributions were : better than FreeBSD for (whatever use), given that they have more : circulation, in first place, nobody would install FreeBSD. Why would : anyone do that if a) Linux is popular and b) it's better? I'll return my refrain: Different people have different needs -- and different software is better for their different needs. : That FreeBSD continues to get installed, and it is not uncommon at : all the case where a Linux user gets converted to FreeBSD, it stands : to evidence that FreeBSD *can* and *is* a better OS for a lot of : users. Change that to 'lot' to a 'few', and I'd have to agree: It's better for me. I'd like to see it grow and I think it can be better for a lot more people, with some simple packaging changes, hence my suggestions. : -Current exists because that's were we make the OS evolve. We want : it to evolve because we feel the need to. I might be mistaken, but I : doubt there is any single feature in -current that wasn't *needed* : by someone, and for this reason was created and added. Needs have causes. Clearly the needs of a few are of greater significance than the needs of the one or the many. I'd like to see the needs of the many play a larger role in planning the future. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message