From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 2 5:41:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD01514E1A for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 05:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 2567 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 1999 13:41:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 2533 invoked by uid 0); 2 Apr 1999 13:41:21 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 2 Apr 1999 13:41:21 -0000 Message-ID: <3704C8D8.A098679A@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:40:40 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Donald Wilde , Michael Doyle , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy References: <11834.923054089@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > The reason this generally is is that nobody involved in such > discussions to date have also had the spare time and/or technical > wizardry to go play interesting vn device games or otherwise figure > out where to get a root fs and potentially some swap space from, along > with potentially other interesting bits, since booting FreeBSD becomes > a little less than straight-forward once you've no handy ufs > filesystem lying around. > In short, for a thousand and one good suggestions on what such a > product should do, see the mailing list archives. For someone > with the time and inclination to actually make this a reality, > scan the far horizon because I haven't seen that person yet. :-) I'm one of those so-inclined people and I'm dreadfully bored with writing backend VC/VB Windoze apps and NT domain management. Now if someone would please point me in the direction of one of those "Master UNIX Hacking in 21 Days" books I'll get started right away. :-) -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message