From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jan 21 13:51:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from achtung.com (mercury.hosting4u.net [209.15.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C79F71559E for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from albert@achtung.com) Received: from achtung.com ([207.13.193.130]) by achtung.com ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:51:13 -0600 Message-ID: <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:55:27 -0800 From: Albert Yang X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: small@freebsd.org Subject: New approach to picobsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there fellow Picobsd'ers! I like the fact that I'm seeing development on picobsd again. I know, we all have that things called "a job" that takes up most of our time, but I think we can keep picobsd alive. My suggestion though was that there is currently no clear outline (as far as I can tell) of the structure and development of picobsd. 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, and I would like that to change as well. You people are obviously more technical than I am, and as much as I would love to help on the technical side, I'm not that great of a programmer, I do webpages and graphics design, but I want to see this thing work. I'm more business oriented and so I would not mind at all keeping a list of what feature requests are suggested, what feature designs are suggested, improvements, patches etc... I have my own webpage if that is what it takes to keep this thing cranking. For example, we say that the networking version needs natd, ssh, etc.. and we list out what consitutes a network version, and the same for the dialup etc.. Trinux has taken a modular approach to all this. I don't think that is neccessary, but at the same time, a more well grouped development effort might make it better with quicker turnaround time. It's just a thought, and again, if you guys need some pretty looking website, let me know, I can cough that up. BSD currently doesn't recognize my modem, and so if I wanted to use the ppp picobsd, then I have to use one of my old 28.8 ones. Ouch. Does the network version support DSL? Albert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message