From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 12:14:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8250A153C7 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: (qmail 48925 invoked from network); 6 Sep 1999 19:14:12 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 1999 19:14:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:14:12 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:29 AM -0700 1999/9/6, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'll say it again; read what has already been said. Most of us are > > heartily sick of your side of the argument, and you're not likely to > > get many useful responses while you continue to display basic ignorance > > of the issues involved. > > I think I'm beginning to understand the attitude problem that > Linux advocates have accused the FreeBSD camp of. This was thrashed out in -hackers a month or so ago. There are sound technical reasons to do so. The biggest is it allows a net install using a DHCP configured interface. Go read the archives, if after that, you have something to say, people might listen to you. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message