Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:50:23 -0700 From: Dan MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABCEHNDIAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <1101876277.41ad4c35e3deb@imp1-q.free.fr>
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From: Rahul Siddharthan > Brad Knowles wrote: > > You see more crime in New York City than you do in Norman > > Oklahoma. Most of that is due to the fact that NYC proper has > > something like eight million people living there, while the > > population of Norman is just under 100,000, when all the University > > students are in town and attending classes. > > Bad example. You see less crime in New York City, post-1990 anyway, > than in many smaller cities like Baltimore and Chicago. And even in > NYC you see more crime in the low-density suburbs and less in > high-density Manhattan. > > Kris and others: let's leave Dragonfly out of it. Nobody mentioned > Dragonfly, except me in my first posting, and that was only to say that > the boot menu lives on. Nobody's advocating Dragonfly to end-users and > certainly not to production environments yet. > > The concerns about FreeBSD started to grow well before Dragonfly. > The specific concern I raised was that nobody who matters cares about > user-friendliness. This thread seems to confirm that. I suspect > that all those who used to care about it now work for Apple... ... and now they don't anymore ;) -- Danny MacMillan
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