From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 25 6:44:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from lepton.subatomix.com (okc-27-143-173.mmcable.com [24.27.143.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8875D37B524 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Received: from localhost (jss@localhost) by lepton.subatomix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08825; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:46:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:46:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Albert Yang , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The heart of the problem In-Reply-To: <200007250933.CAA06461@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > So, anybody want to be captain? I want to see Pico work! > > Well personally I'd nominate Jeffery if he's willing. Omanchu Oomgali (sp?) > is also a favorite candidate of mine; I incited him to do some work on > PicoBSD some time back and he made very good progress. I would be delighted to be take the captain's chair if I could claim such an honor through some sort of general agreement by enough people. Let it be known that I have a few personal beliefs concerning small FreeBSD: * I believe that the current Pico kit needs to be thrown out and replaced with something entirely new. * Having made my own "Tiny" variant, I believe that I have a darn good candidate for 'something entirely new'. :) * I think that a small BSD kit should be general-purpose enough to do multidisk distros, CD-ROM distros, etc. -- pretty much anything you might want in a small FreeBSD. * I think that the small FreeBSD community, Pico, Tiny, or whatever exactly I would be the captain of needs more recognition by the outside world than Pico is currently getting. This means we need a better website, possibly accessible at its own domain name, and someone who will be the official maintainer of that. That's my personal agenda. Now, here is a resume of sorts. I live in Norman, Oklahoma, where I attend the University of Oklahoma. I will be a Senior this fall, working towards a BS in CS with a minor in mathematics. I originally came from a small, rural Oklahoma farm town, but I escaped from that dreadful place with the aid of a National Merit Scholarship. I am 21 years old. I've been learning/loving programming for about half of that time, but most of my knowledge gathering in that field has occurred within the last 4 years. I discovered the Unix world in late 1997. I'm probably a little greener than some of the people here, but I learn quickly. How does everyone feel about all that? > However I don't think that freebsd-small can really survive without > deeper consideration by the mainline developers. This is a serious > point and one that has given PicoBSD quite a few fits and starts > during its existence. That would be one of the captain's duties: making the mainline people know we exist and keeping communication going. =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message