From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 08:02:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C826416A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:02:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fast.dnswatch.com (fast.dnswatch.com [216.177.243.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AE943D46 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from null@dnswatch.com) Received: from fast.dnswatch.com (localhost.dnswatch.com [127.0.0.1]) by fast.dnswatch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j3T823rt013897; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@dnswatch.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by fast.dnswatch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id j3T821U0013896; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@dnswatch.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fast.dnswatch.com: www set sender to null@dnswatch.com using -f Received: from mail.1command.com ([216.177.243.35]) (DNSwatch.com_WebMail authenticated user null) by webmail.dnswatch.com with HTTP; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <60093.216.177.243.35.1114761721.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> In-Reply-To: <20050429005319.GA17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com><426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org><20050428105348.GA8056@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <4270E7F1.9010502@kutulu.org> <20050429005319.GA17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "/dev/null" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: DNSwatch.com_WebMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: Toxa Subject: Re: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:02:09 -0000 > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:41:05AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> >> 1) It is far from a stupid idea if even one person honestly feels it >> would be a benefit. No need to be abusive about it. > > Yes, I have to mention this was only my humble opinion. > >> >> 2) If I were to choose to work on FreeBSD, I would be free to work on >> whatever I felt was lacking. That's how it works. Especially given >> that I have nowhere near enough skill in C to work on more complex >> system-level issues. > > Yes, you can do whatewer you want. But what about the result? I think > several hundreds lines of lolypop-boot-related code will definitively > NOT bring FreeBSD more cleaness and design simpleness. And that's > everyone likes in > BSDs! "And that's everyone likes in BSD's" WOW! Were you elected Official Spokesperson for everyone? ;) >> >> 3) I was merely making suggestions as to what alternatives were >> available. Since almost every Linux distro does something similar to >> this proposal, there is obviously SOME merit to it; the benefit may be >> miniscule, or irrelevant to many people, but it still exists. >> > > See my opinion above. It's a bad, BAD style, to add features till > then they're really necessary and desirable. IMHO. See my opinion of your deciding to decide my opinion above. ;) I might also add that if it is *your* opinion that it should not be added. Then I would suggest to you that you simply *not* add it to your own installation. In short; an addon is simply that - an addon. You don't like it? don't add it. :) No "sour grapes" here. Just felt the need to chime in. -Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > //////////////////////////////////////////////////// If only Western Electric had found a way to offer binary licenses for the UNIX system back in 1974, the UNIX system would be running on all PC's today rather than DOS/Windows. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////