Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 07:20:41 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "j mckitrick" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>, <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: time to step up to the SMP plate? Message-ID: <005001c11f4c$2409eb90$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <002601c11f36$4b0b2080$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "j mckitrick" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>; "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>; <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:44 AM Subject: RE: time to step up to the SMP plate? > One of the things about Open Source development is that the laws of > diminishing returns set in sooner than in commercial software. > > This gives rise to some interesting permutations in the software. > For example, everyone criticizes sysinstall and would love a GUI > installer - but nobody can possibly justify the effort of throwing > out a program that you basically use ONCE then toss aside. To isolate a single point, how can people be critical of sysinstall ? Certainly from a text base 'GUI' standpoint, some things could be improved, but jeez, look at OpenBSD and to a point NetBSD. At least NetBSD has some nice little dialog boxes. OpenBSD's installer is a complete joke. A joke that isn't funny. I've always wished they'd realize what the BSD license is and just _take_ sysinstall and use it for their installer. The same with the FreeBSD boot loader (ever try multi-booting OpenBSD ?). > Even this discussion over SMP. Throughout the years there have been > numberous flirtations with SMP on the desktop market. I can remember > a dual 486/66 for example that I loaded NT 3.1 on, made by Vtech if you > can belive it. (yes, the kid's toy manufacturer) Hah ! I had a Vtech that had a single line LCD display, and you could type BASIC one line at a time, into an interpreter and make neat little programs. Sorry, I had to throw that in there :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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