From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 30 17:13:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B6615268 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 17:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA28675; Mon, 31 May 1999 10:30:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199905310030.KAA28675@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Kernel config script In-Reply-To: from David Scheidt at "May 30, 1999 7: 9: 3 pm" To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 10:30:56 +1000 (EST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jake@checker.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'm not sure we want those sort of people. But there's already a > > What sort of people is FreeBSD after then? There are all sorts of people > who need a mailserver, or a webserver, or whatever, who would otherwise get > someone to sell them an NT based solution. A friend works for a rather > behind the times company who is just getting intra-office email. They had > been sold on some gastly solution that runs under NT, and required three > boxes to do maybe 80 users mail. Why didn't they use a Unix solution? Too > expensive, because they would have had to have paid some high-priced > consultant to set things up. If my friend had been able to show off a nifty > configuration utility, he might have had better luck selling the FreeBSD > solution I recomended. > Are you saying that we don't want a presence in any machine room we can get > one? That FreeBSD should only be for talented ubergeeks? "The power to > serve" doesn't do anyone any good if they can't figure out how to apply it. Why build a kernel at all? The generic kernel should do that application just fine. Only build a custom kernel if you have a good reason to do so. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message