Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:55:52 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3660E1E8.27016719@softweyr.com> References: <199811290408.XAA11525@y.dyson.net>
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"John S. Dyson" wrote:
>
> Terry Lambert said:
> >
> > o FreeBSD is still third-party layered software unfriendly
> > (some would call it antagonistic). There is no real
> > method in FreeBSD for installing software that is supposed
> > to start at system startup and shutdown gracefully at
> > system shutdown.
> >
> > Fix: Change the FreeBSD "init" process. This is political
> > suicide, but technological necessity.
> >
> No question about that. SYSV init or something close to that
> is necessary.
It shouldn't be all that difficult; have the arguments in that past
been "it's just not BSD-ish?"
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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