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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> A lot of people here will disagree with me, perhaps, but when I look at
> the bootup screen for Solaris2, I see a finish built for users who don't
> know or care about hardware details etc (makes FreeBSD and others look
> like "hacks").  If I could, I'd advocate that the free unixes have a
> similar quiet boot as default and a "verbose" option to see all the junk

For those of us who've never seen a Solaris2 machine boot up, could
you perhaps tell us (though config@freebsd.org would be perhaps a
better mailing list on which to do it) what it looks like and what
about it you found so attractive?

There is *nothing* about the current FreeBSD installation which is
frozen in stone, and frankly I never expected it to last 2+ years
looking just like it does now - I figured we'd have a totally
different installation by now.  Too many fires, too few hours in the
day I guess. :-)

					Jordan