Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:58:33 +0200 From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> To: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Capo Sobral <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, dcs@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS Message-ID: <2001-09-05-18-58-33%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010905092840.B96880@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200109032330.f83NU9n02241@mass.dis.org> <200109041248.f84CmOa21358@mail.tcoip.com.br> <20010905092840.B96880@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 5/09, David O'Brien wrote: | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:48:24AM -0300, Daniel Capo Sobral wrote: | > When I first wrote the loader.conf thingy, I couldn't get the value | > of environment variables from the FICL environment. | ... | > Anyway, I have been too busy lately to do anything with FreeBSD that | > is not directly related to things I have to do at work, and it doesn't | > look like slacking up so soon. So, unfortunately, I don't have time to | > do any of the little things that have been cropping up with loader. | | A very good reason the loader should have used something other then a | language only 1% of the FreeBSD committers (and entire community) has | knowledge of. This is why major companies use Windows instead of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is only known by less than 1% of the CS community, let alone the entire workers population. Or why is BSD make used when the vast majority of Free Software developpers use GNU make? Yes, this is a troll. No, it doesn't need a followup. I just don't buy the 1% argument, it reminds me too much of what people say about the systems I use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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