In message <20040409191407.11538.qmail_at_web13901.mail.yahoo.com>, Nathan Seven w rites: >I just think that's really hurt the adoption of it- >For basic serverside stuff, bits like ACPI and sound >aren't needed at all- Lets not go there. Other people feel the exact opposite and we want FreeBSD to be broadly usable, so we will have to spend time and effort to both sides. >Perhaps once the scheduling and pthread stuff has been >solidified, a "stable base" release should be made? >Meaning that the release as a whole should still be >considered unstable, but using the as-shipped "stable" >kernel config, things should be nice and solid? You know, I also wish we could sysctl kern.rfc748=1 and then se our users smile happy smiles. But it ain't so in my universe, and since I block all exouniverse email as spam, you must be in the same one too. Remember all those western movies where a sign were posted over the piano player: Don't shoot the pianist, -- he's doing the best he can. Well, if you look carefully, you'll see a similar sign hung over the FreeBSD committers. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_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.Received on Fri Apr 09 2004 - 11:17:42 UTC
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