Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:19:27 -0800 From: Everett F Batey <efb@cotdazr.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New approach to picobsd Message-ID: <20000123211927.B5810@cotdazr.org> In-Reply-To: <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:55:38PM %2B0800 References: <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Small List and Greg,
Hope I cut in enough of the thread that you find relevance in
the following comments.
Been playing at home and at work with Unix since early ARPA.Net
days. And as public pressures to move to cripples like MSDog get
worse .. I try to spend more time showing my customers what they can
know out with a Unix box. When we can take a one CD / 2 to five CD
set and get a standalone Unix to run in RAM or and Floppy on any lap
top, desktop, broken tactical desktop and solve some big problem,
I have a convert for life.
If the PicoBSD effort comes to where I can do better than a RedHat CD
and use small FreeBSD building form one or two floppies, adding the
device support to make any Intel based host do the tasks like bring up
a firewall, router, sniffer, commserver or any of the other middle to
heavy weight Unix tasks that is pretty great value.
The best of it comes when any Windows appliance operator can do the
same thing or at least come close.
My dimes worth of wish listing.
BW /Everett/
Boy, I like to deliver Unix (like free) to the fleet.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:55:38PM +0800, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 13:55:27 -0800, Albert Yang wrote:
> > Hey there fellow Picobsd'ers!
> > I like the fact that I'm seeing development on picobsd again. I know,
> > What I mean is, actually making this into a well defined project
> > instead of a loosely held patch kit.
>
> > The thing I was thinking about most, was defining what "flavors" of
> > picobsd should have what functionality. Documentation is sparce,
>
> You can certainly help if you can give us good directions. My last
> update to PicoBSD based on a particular need from a customer, but at
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