From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 13:28:35 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 4B2EE37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr (ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr [163.178.60.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AC343F75 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr) Received: by ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr (Postfix, from userid 5481) id CFF221FFD0; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:24:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C943E2BFA8; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:24:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:24:24 -0600 (CST) From: Fabio Miranda Hamburger To: Mike Meyer In-Reply-To: <16019.10864.574366.570127@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 20:28:35 -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. Sure, typical "FreeSBD" stgyle answer: "do it yourself, because we are unix guru and like play with the kernel". I know apm is the past, But It's not supported by freebsd, so what do you exepct of new technology support?