From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 8 12: 5:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4333D14F5E for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 12:05:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA04373; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:02:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19990308210213.A4345@foobar.franken.de> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:02:13 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: Brett Glass , Bill Fumerola Cc: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:48:13PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:48:13PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > >We've put this off long enough. jkh can give you million reasons why he is > >more happy with the 2-floppy solution. > > 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. > How about going for the opposite ? If we already have 2 disks and we're not going to go down to a single one again, we might aswell support installs over ISDN (which I am sure that many people in Germany will appreciate, as ISDN is extremely widespread here), or fit the stuff that currently is on the fixit-disk onto the 2-disk-combination. I'm sure there are more things we could support than just the two I mentioned. bye, Harold -- Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message