From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 18 22:47:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6185337B503 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D138D71; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:47:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id WAA22277; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:47:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A90C167.5AED22D4@cup.hp.com> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:47:03 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mark Murray , Jordan Hubbard , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving Things References: <200102190501.WAA12085@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > Windows practically lets you add or remove much of the OS, starting > with a number of broad categories, and then having a "details" button > that further breaks these categories down, and elect to add or remove > individual subcomponents. This is all in the realm of the user. The discussion is about the realm of the developer. The installation process is a mere byproduct of what is being discussed now. > There's undeniably merit in knowing, without having to go looking, > that an installation of your OS will come with some things, by > default. Agreed. > I'm finding much sympathy with the Linux camp's assertion that > Linux is the kernel, and everything else is just a distribution... They have my sympathy as well :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message