From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 27 13:58:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28348 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28343 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:58:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA06736; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:59:25 -0800 (PST) To: Terry Lambert cc: brett@lariat.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:52:38 GMT." <199811272152.OAA19036@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:59:24 -0800 Message-ID: <6732.912203964@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's not a matter of figuring out what to do; that's easy. It's We agree on that. Most of the ideas on your list have been raised at least once or twice before, only underscoring the point. In fact, I think all of them have been. > a matter of will, and it's a matter of prying things like the > BSD init process out of the cold, dead hands of the powers that be. init is the smallest bang-for-buck item on your list, actually, and could be put well behind tasks like improving the Linux emulation up to Oracle8 standards or writing that Linux Upgrade Kit people have been joking about for 2-3 years now. Yep, if one is interested in doing rather than talking, there are plenty of contravsersy-free and eminently worthy tasks to turn one's attention to. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message