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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:58:51 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>,
        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system?
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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:13:54PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > > > Why can't this be done as an lkm that is installed from a port/package?
> > > Why don't we throw out the screensavers, too? And all of /usr/games,
> > > /usr/share/misc, /sys/i386/isa/sound, /sys/i386/isa/snd...
> > Because the screen savers anyone can use, and most people have sound cards in 
> > their machines.. The number of people with X-10 systems is pretty small AFAIK..
> 
> FreeBSD is widely used by ISPs or WWW content providers on servers
> which have never even been within a fifteen-mile radius of a sound
> card.

... or within 5 meter of a monitor.

Eivind, who run most of his boxes on 'serial and network only'.

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