From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 08:40:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA14758 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 08:40:31 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA14752 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 08:40:30 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA05513; Mon, 6 Feb 95 09:34:24 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502061634.AA05513@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 9:34:23 MST Cc: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502060140.RAA14207@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Feb 5, 95 05:40:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > While all this is true, give me a break. A cheap crappy VGA card > > is peanuts. > > But a chieap crappy VGA monitor is NOT.. [ ... pricing information on "cheap, crappy hardware" elided ... ] Fooey. An X based install will be, by it's nature, limited to a multidisk or CDROM based tool set. In both cases, there's no reason that an MDA or text based toolset can't also be provided, in the first case becuse it shouldn't matter which install disk of several is actually used, and in the second because there's room to put the thing there. I'd also like to see other binary pieces, if only because they are available as binary but not as source. This would include smart multiport board drivers, that someone signs non-disclosure on then writes and distributes, as well as AIC7xxx drivers (despite the progress in this area) so that things like the HP with the embedded controllers can be supported. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.