From owner-freebsd-small Wed Apr 12 7: 8:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (24.66.207.153.ab.wave.home.com [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E405D37B8D7 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neo@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA01253; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:08:18 -0600 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Organization: dreamwvr.com To: chad@DCFinc.com, "Chad R. Larson" , dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:02:12 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, imp@village.org, dirkx@webweaving.org, chip@eboai.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004120618.XAA08009@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200004120618.XAA08009@freeway.dcfinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041208081806.00722@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi Chad, > Really, unless the licence contributes a substantial amount to the > delivered cost, having a shell that knows how to do things like "ls" > and "dd" would be very useful to the hacker wanting to bootstrap his > way to something more to his taste. yes linux or *bsd would be tasteful;-)) > This gizmo would be worth while to a lot more people if they didn't > have to open it up and hack the hardware. agreed IMHO my hardware skills leave much to be desired and well i personally like the idea of as little mucking around with the hardware as possible. seems to me that if they named a 'reasonable price' most likely they would win. would like to see a simular device or same that a project revolves around as a "look at this" it would be real attractive to people that want to see something other than that old dusty 486 with 8 meg of ram for the front office. well on the wish it was less hassle to get list.. Best Regards, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message