From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 6 05:04:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA11913 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 05:04:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA11908 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 05:04:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from mail.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa16162; 6 Nov 97 8:03 EST Received: from stretch.cs.virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06694; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:03:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (from atf3r@localhost) by stretch.cs.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00270; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:03:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:03:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Niall Smart cc: Terry Lambert , jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Niall Smart wrote: > On Nov 5, 7:23pm, Terry Lambert wrote: > } Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? > > > > I have to say that my introduction to UNIX was via the games. > > [snip] > > > If you kill the games, you damage "recruitment". > > With all respect, studies show that only 1/100000 people install FreeBSD > to play text mode games. > > Niall Perhaps, but pleanty of people who are introduced to a new OS, are shown how to play games on it. Who said the installed games were for the person who installed the system? Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/