From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 14: 2: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC04C37B405; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f85L1QT49744; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:01:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@tcoip.com.br, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:26:22 PDT." <20010905132622F.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:01:26 +0200 Message-ID: <49742.999723686@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010905132622F.jkh@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard writes: >FreeBSD is simply following an well-established trend for boot loaders >here rather than going its own way, and if we were to use Ruby as our >boot loader then I'm sure a lot of Japanese people would be very happy >but it would also make us utterly unique, a decision of even more >questionable wisdom. And just for the record: PERL is right out (of space) for this purpose... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message