Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:09:12 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <BA2623F8.177DD%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <001701c2a6d4$dc7fdd40$0200000a@sewer.org>
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> From: "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> > I can't believe this thread is still polluting the email system. 386's are > old, slow, and virtually useless. I think that the time wasted on supporting > junk hardware would be better spent on utilising the features and > capabilities of new hardware. As someone mentioned, if you want to use crap > hardware, install NetBSD. FreeBSD's goal isn't to be able to run on > anything, it's to be able to run fast on specific things. With that in mind, > put your 386's away, or find a different OS. I know it may be hard to part > with old junk, but that's life. I take great offense in all of what you posted. Your opinion is extremely short-sighted and one-sided. I don't have any problem with removing 386 support from GENERIC, and there need be no requirement to pre-build anything beyond what has already been decided, but I would hope that it will be possible to simply 'make' a 386 kernel--and all the rest--indefinitely. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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