From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 17:36:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D4C14ED6 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:35:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id KAA09401; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:35:41 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DC8D70.B7780F9F@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:16:32 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Bill Fumerola , Adam Turoff , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart References: <4.1.19990302132445.040f6d40@localhost> <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass wrote: > > Well, we all know that Jordan worked long and hard on the install > code and did all sorts of tricks to keep it to one floppy. > Nonetheless, I think that this is an important selling point. > Also, from a technical standpoint, there's no reason why a single > floppy can't reach out to the installation media and bring in any > code that won't fit. This may well be an opportunity to leapfrog > Linux once again. True enough. As the boot disks move to a PicoBSD-based solution, and support for kld increases, it might be viable for network installs (given the widespread boot capability of cd-roms nowadays, this might not have much demand on cd-rom installs). But people will have to work to make it happen. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message