Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:24:24 -0600 (CST) From: Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apm Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304081421560.23510-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> In-Reply-To: <16019.10864.574366.570127@guru.mired.org>
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> In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304081256570.5524-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>, Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> typed: > > Hi, according to the documentation, the "apm" utility is "not well > > supported" for freebsd. > > It has been not supported for years. > > so, When is going to be supported? > > Why all the development of freebsd is based on /bin /sbin and kernel? > > I feel like all developers are old unix guru that enjoy console system but > > there are not abe to develop a modern and versatile system. > > FreeBSD needs management, ppl that are NOT programmers and understand > > users needs and focus the development. > > If the developers prefer to "improve the version of su" they do that and > > dont care about "window's world utility". > > Ranting about things you don't understand is a bad idea. > > > Mobile computing is the future!. > > Gee, what next - you're going to tell me that virtual memory is the > future, right? I've been doing mobile computing for over seven years > now. > > apm, on the other hand, is the past. acpi is where power management is > going. Improving that is in the development path. So wait for it, or > install -current and do some work on it yourself. Sure, typical "FreeSBD" stgyle answer: "do it yourself, because we are unix guru and like play with the kernel". I know apm is the past, But It's not supported by freebsd, so what do you exepct of new technology support?
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