From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 2 10:12:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA10713 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:12:00 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (taob@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA10700 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:11:57 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA26677; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 13:11:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 13:11:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: dennis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-Reply-To: <199510012343.TAA08602@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, dennis wrote: > > Great Idea! Lets lose the established users who are pushing for the O/S to > support the idiots. Let's eliminate those that are building systems based on > FreeBSD in hopes of luring the occasional one-time user. This is a great > business decision. It's the "idiots" and the "one-time user" that are more likely to have deficient hardware than those who are already accustomed to building FreeBSD boxes. Those in the latter group can still go for the full 8Mb installation kernel. Who says we have to have one or the other? -- Brian Tao System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"