Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 21:45:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dwilde1@thuntek.net, relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-ID: <199904032145.OAA12230@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <11834.923054089@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 2, 99 03:54:49 am
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> Actually, I don't think that talking about this will really accomplish > much of anything since it's already something which has been talked > about for years. The FreeBSD demo CD or a counterpart to Slackware's > "zipslack" and many similar proposals are one of those cometary topics > which come swooshing through -hacker once a year or so, each time > generating a lot of "yeah! we really need a ... and it should ... and > have a menu which lets you pick ... and ask ..." sorts of comments but > absolutely nothing in the way of an actual "product." That may have something to do with the fact that FreeBSD doesn't have a native "umsdosfs" like Linux does, thanks to Udo Walter, and the obvious soloution to this (a UMSDOS stacking layer) can't be written because VFS stacking doesn't work. Or not. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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