Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:01:26 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@tcoip.com.br, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, 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: <49742.999723686@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:26:22 PDT." <20010905132622F.jkh@freebsd.org>
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In message <20010905132622F.jkh@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard writes: >FreeBSD is simply following an well-established trend for boot loaders >here rather than going its own way, and if we were to use Ruby as our >boot loader then I'm sure a lot of Japanese people would be very happy >but it would also make us utterly unique, a decision of even more >questionable wisdom. And just for the record: PERL is right out (of space) for this purpose... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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