Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:27:02 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <cb5206420704070427w366e97a8v654f9b58ae6fb82d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070407063804.H30801@fledge.watson.org> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070406142326.GC6950@hoeg.nl> <ef10de9a0704060731l71186e1duea689617af407f4b@mail.gmail.com> <20070406153500.GE6950@hoeg.nl> <46166A5E.3090009@samsco.org> <ef10de9a0704061136s2dc35c06w431d6d3f8c05dc1@mail.gmail.com> <461697C3.8000700@elischer.org> <ef10de9a0704061323n622f2d64l6e45c0b72af93fb8@mail.gmail.com> <86ps6h8as6.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070407063804.H30801@fledge.watson.org>
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On 4/7/07, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > >> Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes: > >>> We have a LOT of old systems running around the world. > >> But the old systems don't need the latest and greatest copy of > >> FreeBSD! This is why we provide errata / security fixes. The systems > >> are a static non moving target ??? > > > > Excuse me? Who's "we"? > > > > Julian, Warner, Scott, Bernd, Giorgios, Wilko, myself and many others who > > have contradicted you in this discussion are veteran FreeBSD developers with > > something like a hundred years of industry experience between us. > > > > You, on the other hand are just a pathetic little fuck who has repeatedly > > demonstrated his complete lack of understanding of anything remotely > > approaching real computers, real software and real life. > > > > You do not get to tell us how to run our project. > > > > You do not get to say "we". > > Guys, > > This is getting out of hand. It's clear that people can and will be running > FreeBSD on older hardware for a long time to come, and that we can accept or > disregard this advice -- or even find a middle ground, like determining > whether shipping additional kernel configurations would help -- without > turning this into a flame war. Without seeing des fly off the handle, reading this thread would be a total waste of time :-) Love y'all :)
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