From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 13:00:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D7537B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE66343FA3 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1050264049.369b9c@mired.org) Received: (qmail 32597 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2003 20:00:49 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 20:00:49 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:00:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16019.10864.574366.570127@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:00:48 -0500 To: Fabio Miranda Hamburger In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.73 (Jet Pilot) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apm X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:00:51 -0000 In , Fabio Miranda Hamburger typed: > Hi, according to the documentation, the "apm" utility is "not well > supported" for freebsd. > It has been not supported for years. > so, When is going to be supported? > Why all the development of freebsd is based on /bin /sbin and kernel? > I feel like all developers are old unix guru that enjoy console system but > there are not abe to develop a modern and versatile system. > FreeBSD needs management, ppl that are NOT programmers and understand > users needs and focus the development. > If the developers prefer to "improve the version of su" they do that and > dont care about "window's world utility". Ranting about things you don't understand is a bad idea. > Mobile computing is the future!. Gee, what next - you're going to tell me that virtual memory is the future, right? I've been doing mobile computing for over seven years now. apm, on the other hand, is the past. acpi is where power management is going. Improving that is in the development path. So wait for it, or install -current and do some work on it yourself. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.