Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:18:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, abial@webgiro.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimise for space -Os Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007100058390.41399-100000@lepton.subatomix.com> In-Reply-To: <200007081847.LAA13038@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > Would it be heresy to suggest that perhaps the base for PicoBSD > might want to be 2.2-STABLE? Or perhaps 3.5-STABLE? It seems this > thread is spending a lot of time pondering ways around bloat. I don't think that would be a good idea, at least not for FreeBSD 4.x and later. It would be quite a hindrance to the new user; I can imagine him getting his hot-off-the-press FreeBSD 5.2 CDs and getting quite pissed off having to downgrade to a much earlier version to do embedded stuff. If I am told that FreeBSD makes a decent embedded OS, I would expect the latest version to have that capability. Then there's the whole issue of having old software and using new software. While its true that many small FreeBSD applications will use only sio/lpt/ppi/basic-networking/etc that has been rock-solid since prehistory, *someone* out there might very well want to use that cool new feature/device which was added in version 5.2. Denying that user the possibility of making small FreeBSD work is IMHO not the Right Thing. The stability issue is a double-edged sword; older versions are more mature and tested, but newer versions are getting more attention by bug finders/fixers or might have different/better implementations of stuff. That's my US$0.02. =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> 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
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