Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 21:37:34 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: reset screen hardware? Message-ID: <13880.871792654@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:41:37 %2B0930." <199708170311.MAA04998@freebie.lemis.com>
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> If there's one thing that pisses me off about many FreeBSD hackers, > it's this attitude "Ooh, this is nasty. I don't want to have anything > to do with it". Lots of PC hardware is nasty. Messing around in a 16 > bit BIOS is nasty. IDE is nasty. VGA is nasty. Come to think of it, > what's nice about PC hardware? But FreeBSD's acceptance suffers > significantly because nobody can be bothered to deal with these nasty > things. Where's the Win-32 emulator? ... Funny, my bigget rant has to do with people going "Why doesn't FreeBSD have feature XXX?!" rather than "Here are my diffs to support feature XXX, please integrate them." Why? Well, we'd have support for a lot more "nasty" stuff if there were more people around who were willing to do the actual implementation work and be willing to actively support it afterwards so it doesn't go stale (like the 1st ISDN drivers, for example). That's the real problem here. Jordan
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