From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 23:34:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE8B106564A for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E988FC13 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B86C5C28 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:47:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7CB4C5C22 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:47:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F3EE2E8.3040000@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:29:44 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201202172323.q1HNMvc3039898@fire.js.berklix.net> <4F3EE1B7.5010905@fisglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3EE1B7.5010905@fisglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: One or Four? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:34:33 -0000 On 02/18/12 09:24, Robison, Dave wrote: > On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> >> >>> Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. >> No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, >> the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get >> a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@. Some answers one sees >> on questions@ are very good, but some are ... the other way. So not everyone gets to vote? What happened to democracy :) > Actually, the discussion and ideas so far have been very interesting > and helpful. > > Keep it coming. It has been rather interesting to find the limits of the extreme. The performance aspects are a very good point, one of the original reasons why the layout was chosen to begin with. Not so much an issue now... but still valid.