From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 17 22:36:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15471 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jupiter.one-mo.com (ppp-207-215-86-235.scrm01.pacbell.net [207.215.86.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15461 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oski@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([192.168.2.1]) by jupiter.one-mo.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with ESMTP id 279; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:32:18 -0800 Message-ID: <350F6A80.ADFF653E@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:32:32 -0800 From: Michael Oski X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mburgett@awen.com, rkw@dataplex.net CC: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change References: <199803180244.TAA14410@const.> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------C96BF646E450AADDFD5CBC09" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk --------------C96BF646E450AADDFD5CBC09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Resend due to formatting error] One more vote for leaving it in!!! I was new to unix when I first installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 when it was first released. It only took about 2 months to learn that searching these mailing lists and reading other available info was *required* when tracking -STABLE. IMHO anyone planning on upgrading ***ANY*** operating system should look before leaping - or suffer whatever extra work which results. This is a work-in-progress OS, it's user's need to be able to adapt to changes such as this. Of course, one can always use stale-redmondian crap while awaiting Windows2000 ;-) -- ============================================= Michael. _______________ \\\\\|/ / \ | @ @ | | Did I say that? | ( (_) .) /\_______________/ \ o / __/ \_/ --------------C96BF646E450AADDFD5CBC09 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Resend due to formatting error]

One more vote for leaving it in!!!

I was new to unix when I first installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 when it was first released. It only took about 2 months to learn that searching these mailing lists and reading other available info was *required* when tracking -STABLE.

IMHO anyone planning on upgrading ***ANY*** operating system should look before leaping - or suffer whatever extra work which results. This is a work-in-progress OS, it's user's need to be able to adapt to changes such as this. 

Of course, one can always use stale-redmondian crap while awaiting Windows2000 ;-)
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