From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 10: 9:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9A737B404 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:09:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [64.71.143.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371C143EB2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:09:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzzy@electricrain.com) Received: (qmail 9792 invoked by uid 540); 16 Dec 2002 18:09:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:09:48 -0800 From: Chris Doherty To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <20021216180948.GD27912@zot.electricrain.com> Reply-To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net References: <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <9710634521.20021214232526@dds.nl> <3DFC0AB1.D60AAF66@mindspring.com> <200212160955.14531.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212160955.14531.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: XEmacs X-Koan: mu. Organization: The Inside Foundation Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:55:14AM -0800, Johnson David said: > Okay, here's a compromise solution for all those people still needing 386 > support out of the box: make a 5.0-mini-386.iso image. > > p.s. I somehow suspect that embedded systems vendors aren't installing from > the CDROM. why is this an issue? 1) supporting every computer made since 1964 is NetBSD's job, not FreeBSD's. 2) I'm scared that 5.0 is going to be unpleasantly slow on my p2-366, let alone a 386. 3) if you feel compelled to run old hardware, why not shell out $30 for a 486 system? for $50 you can get a Pentium 166. :-) I'm really keen to see FreeBSD move *forward*. chris ------------------------------- Chris Doherty chris [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry." -- A. A. Milne ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message