From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 9 17:24:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618EE37B503 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA342C; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:28:45 -0800 Message-ID: <3A849787.A4547F36@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:21:11 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sil@antioffline.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail References: <20010209162718.A21618@antioffline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sil@antioffline.com wrote: > Your pointing out something I already know and I am speaking for myself > and not some OpenBSD cause. FYI I use FBSD at work since it supports > multi processors and has some features that Open doesn't. However 4 CD's > filled with stuff that I could give a rats (let me be polite) anus about > is outrageous. Its no wonder why Free is on record pace to release a slew > of advisories. FreeBSD (and OpenBSD, for that matter) are used in a huge variety of applications and settings. I, for one, do not use it as a server. I have no need for a server. I use it as a single-user home system with games, word processors, screen savers and foofy desktops. Ports are EXTREMELY useful for me, and I suspect they are equally useful for 95% of the FreeBSD usership. Limiting FreeBSD users to just the base distribution is simply not a viable option. If you have a problem with ports, then it is up to you not to install any. If you don't want to purchase four CD's when you only need one, then try one of the other dozen ways to acquire FreeBSD besides purchasing the official 4-CD set. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message