Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:23:47 +0100 From: Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Scott Mitchell <rsm@acm.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk Subject: Re: compatibility list Message-ID: <6944.921097427@cs.ucl.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:59:46 %2B0100." <32673.921092386@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: |In message <19990310181537.16981@goatsucker.org>, Scott Mitchell writes: | |>Of course all this is beside the point if FreeBSD is just a 'server |>focused' OS, and no-one on the core team really gives a shit about pushing |>desktop, let alone laptop, support. | |I will let my .signature speak for me on this one. | |-- |Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member |phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." |FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! pt1 May i ask what "other" people are supposed to run on their laptops? i think this attitude will completely marginalise FreeBSD and (me too) i wouldn't like to see this happen pt2 even if support is not there (yet) imho it is *crucial* for attracting new users that there is a clear/official/honest declaration of what a new user should expect to be working i suggest that "documentation" probably is more important than development for acquiring larger user base and making the project succesful pt3 the fact that McKusick, Stevensvol2 books are out there is a great advantage for FreeBSD, but i don't want to think about what's going to happen if someone publishes a book for linux networking internals sometime soon Thanks Panos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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