Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:10:20 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, vistua@sdf.lonestar.org Subject: Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd Message-ID: <200702090010.25836.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <45CBA137.7050701@isp.com> References: <45CBA137.7050701@isp.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday, 8. February 2007 23:16, John Walthall wrote: > Ok, now an editorial: I should not really dignify this rant by replying to it, but: > We have a fundamental design difference from Linux here. We chose this > difference because we believed that it was better. Why would we go back > now because the developers of a third-party interface to our systems did > a clumsy job? KPPP is not an interface to 'our' systems. It's an interface to *pppd*, which happens to be available for a wide range of Unices and Unix-like systems. > We should adjure them to implement the > new and better system. This is not actually an appropriate place for > this discussion. It should be directed to porten@kde.org and/or > http://bugs.kde.org. Because it is a KDE problem and *not* a FreeBSD > Problem. (I have already submitted it to the KDE Bugzilla) A kernel panic/freeze triggered by a badly maintained driver is most certainly not any application's problem. You should probably close that bug yourself. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFy63hXhc68WspdLARAvSHAJ9tgnKWQUEdCosROlnjhm5YjaWxMQCfV37S dQQVt+uRj8C68Zrb6ORTqp8= =6DXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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