From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 13 15:52:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from relay03.netaddress.usa.net (relay03.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37A6214C98 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 2354 invoked from network); 13 May 1999 22:52:12 -0000 Received: from www0a.netaddress.usa.net (204.68.24.30) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 13 May 1999 22:52:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 5479 invoked by uid 60001); 13 May 1999 22:52:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19990513225212.5478.qmail@www0a.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.30 by www0a via web-mailer(M3.0.0.118) on Thu May 13 22:52:11 GMT 1999 Date: 13 May 99 15:52:11 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: Donald Wilde , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Re: http://www.freebsd.org/features.html] X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.118) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald Wilde wrote: > Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > = > > Also, we have the "three stage boot loader". For us who know why it > > is needed, it sounds wonderful. For outsiders, it looks like things > > goes through a lot of different steps, all of them requiring > > interaction with the user (well, that's what people would dread). > > = > Ummm, I like that, actually. To most people, it makes us rocket-powered= ! > Sorry to get in on this late, but I'm just now starting to catch up. = I agree with Daniel. It makes thing sound complicated. However, Donald makes a good point. The "three stage" part sounds good, but "boot" makes it sound like we are still working with old antiqated concepts. Perhaps something like: "three stage system launcher" that powers you into advanced computing. :-) Just a thought. = --- IN that context, it is the BSD that should be considered, not the prefix. http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/cgi-bin/newsread?34858 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message