Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 16:08:22 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> To: Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1901051607160.99904@puchar.net> In-Reply-To: <CADWvR2j%2B0qYEz03bkF09TEAN5yjpKZ9f25MawVHt_5n_QkgPbA@mail.gmail.com> References: <wojtek@puchar.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1901042023410.22494@puchar.net> <201901041951.x04Jppo2029486@slippy.cwsent.com> <CADWvR2j%2B0qYEz03bkF09TEAN5yjpKZ9f25MawVHt_5n_QkgPbA@mail.gmail.com>
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> >> Niche. We should be more than simply a desktop O/S (which BTW I use as >> my primary desktop) and we should be more than a simple bare metal O/S. > > Interesting, back in the 90s I went for FreeBSD (and stuck with it) > for the exact opposite reasons: it was a no thrills bare metal OS that > didn't try to be "everything" like Linux distros were! :-)) And that's the reason i use it for everything. I don't need to do fashionable things, as large corporations do this en masse for dumb masses, and few others blidnly repeating the same.
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