From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 10 12:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F64F151D8 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Received: from sporty.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:23:49 +0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Scott Mitchell , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk Subject: Re: compatibility list In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:59:46 +0100." <32673.921092386@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:23:47 +0100 Message-ID: <6944.921097427@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Panos GEVROS Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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