Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:19:53 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <xzp3camsuyu.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <40011237.3000409@iconoplex.co.uk> (Paul Robinson's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:07:03 %2B0000") References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> <400108FC.9010008@iconoplex.co.uk> <200401110048.52747.wes@softweyr.com> <40011237.3000409@iconoplex.co.uk>
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Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> writes: > Understood. I just think saying "let's get rid of floppies" is > shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because you don't like > that dog, to stretch the analogy. I don't think you have any idea how difficult it is (and has been for a couple of years now) just to keep the install floppies alive. The kernel keeps growing, and the amount of "must-have" features (such as acpi) keeps growing, and every time the boot floppies overflow we have to toss out yet another driver that about a dozen people vehemently tell us they can't live without. To rephrase this in terms of your analogy, the dog was hit by a bus two years ago and has been on artificial life support ever since, and it's starting to dawn on us that we can no longer afford the hospital bill. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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