From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 09:59:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25196 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 09:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25110 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 09:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA16684; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:59:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 -0600 To: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement In-Reply-To: References: <19981003003108.A12411@execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:13 PM 10/3/98 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: >A lot of criticism has been directed towards Walnut >Creek, and many people have said "if you want a more commercial freebsd >distribution, go out there and do it". This is where the discussion >typically ends. There are many out there willing to point out flaws with >the way Walnut Creek is handling distribution and whatnot of FreeBSD, >but very few are willing to translate that into action and do something >about it. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message