Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de, mark@vmunix.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PNP and new Sound code ? Message-ID: <199710211741.KAA07203@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199710210846.JAA20825@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Oct 21, 97 09:46:40 am"
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According to Luigi Rizzo: > > Really I am not particularly concerned with the PnP stuff, but at > times have the feeling that some positions are too conservative. I > think similar positions have come out over the years regarding other > things, such as ATAPI CD, or IDE disks, or the "de" driver, and I have > been always disappointed in seeing these discussions. > > There is a market we should look at, not perhaps as a first goal, but > we cannot ignore it. If there are many PnP devices around, we should at > least try to support them, or people will migrate elsewhere (to other > OS, or to other hardware). > A solid Yes to the above. Stability and reliability are critical to any OS worth its salt, and here we shine. The BSD flavors of Unix are at least as stable as anything in the commercial marketplace. At the same time, Luigi raises a key point about the inherent conservatism of *BSD. The more bleeding-edge code that we can have under development the better. These suites can be brought out of their alpha or pre- alpha directories when they have passed several months of heavy pounding. I'm upgrading a huge 386 tower to 6x86 with 5 or 6 gigs. Plan on putting on FBSD, of course, and perhaps even DOS/Win (*ugh*)... Also DebianLinux; it does more. gary kline
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