From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 03:11:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF234106564A for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8B78FC17 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.95]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4903A16B4A5 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:11:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:11:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20110315203753.55f1ec3b@scorpio> Message-ID: References: <20110307162153.0463fa73@atmarama.net> <20110307170014.GB65289@guilt.hydra> <4D7FE8E1.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110315203753.55f1ec3b@scorpio> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: HAL must die! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:11:36 -0000 On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Jerry wrote: > Now, as far as HAL goes, the fragmented open-source community cannot > even begin to agree on its replacement. Every distro is busy trying to > reinvent the wheel. Here you want the majority of users to be dictated > to by a minority of users who cannot even agree on a common platform > that is uniformly used throughout all the non-Microsoft community. That > reasoning is totally irrational. Well you know if HAL were made to work without breaking essential stuff, no one would say a word against it. Unfortunately it was put together by egos too big to make corrections to their beautiful code. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266