Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:35:16 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <CADLo83_qKn8iPRb%2ByPeTVQnyVU1G=3xgbLiqxusDQs7PWZLQOA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207071123460.45763@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <20120705082857.GB37083@server.rulingia.com> <4FF55864.8040807@FreeBSD.org> <201207051215.44799.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <20120706201721.GB1437@garage.freebsd.pl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207071123460.45763@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Jul 7, 2012 10:25 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> >> something they probably don't even know about, than to skilled users to >> turn it off. >> >> If this feature is going to prints quite a few extra lines, let's just >> add one more line saying: >> >> To disable this message run: echo set 31337mode >> ~/.tcshrc >> >> -- > > should i - from now, understand that this way of "extending" OS is considered right (i mean going down to newbies instead of going up) by FreeBSD developers? > > Please answer it is important for me, and many other people for a future. This is not 'going down'. This is adding features to help newcomers. You are free to disable them. It will not remove anything from FreeBSD. I point to Doug's statement on elitism. Chris
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