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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:19:45 +0200
From:      Mischa Peters <mischa.peters@cacheflow.com>
To:        "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>
Cc:        W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>, Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The heart of the problem
Message-ID:  <20000725161944.B56036@high5.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007250716060.8718-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>; from jss@subatomix.com on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:46:44AM -0500
References:  <200007250933.CAA06461@mindspring.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007250716060.8718-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>

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Hi All,

> * I believe that the current Pico kit needs to be thrown out and replaced
> with something entirely new.

Personaly I think all the small bsd variants should be consolidated into one
small bsd version. I have seen a lot of people now on this list that either
have build their own, or modified pico/tiny bsd.

And I think this energy can kick a lot more a** if we put everything
together in a way that most of the us can get out of it what they want.
A good router,cable,dialup,terminal,bridge version.

Something you can not get in the linux world either. Which is one of the
things about linux, that everybody starts their own distribution just
because they think they can do a better job.

> * 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.

My point exactly...

> * 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.

I wouldn't mind hosting that domain, my own servers are co-located at an ISP
in the Netherlands which is connected with a 34MB conenction to the dutch
internet exchange.
But I think the maintance should be a more then 1 persons job, altough if
the documentation that comes with every release is updates, then it
shouldn'ty be a problem ;)

> How does everyone feel about all that?

All for it...

Maybe there could be a democratic vote somewhere, where people can add them
to a list of possible candidates to become the leader of this bunch ;)
And the rest of the list can go there and vote... or is this to democratic?
;))

Mischa


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