Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:20:52 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <19990302132052.C18602@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:48:13PM -0700 References: <4.1.19990302132445.040f6d40@localhost> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990302153710.22218Z-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes .com> <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost>
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On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:48:13PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:38 PM 3/2/99 -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > >We've put this off long enough. jkh can give you million reasons why he is > >more happy with the 2-floppy solution. > > Also, from a technical standpoint, there's no reason why a single > floppy can't reach out to the installation media and bring in any > code that won't fit. This may well be an opportunity to leapfrog > Linux once again. Well, Brett, if you can't fit a generic kernel and networking code on the same disk, then you can't reach out to your installation media in the first place. Having two floppies is far far better than having different floppies for different types of installations (e.g. the network install floppies, the cdrom install floppy, the nullmodem install floppy (ouch), etc.). The goal is not to leapfrog Linux or any other operating system. The goal is to provide the best possible OS. This sometimes means making compromises in certain areas in exchange for superior overall quality -- which is what was done here. If attaining that level of quality means that FreeBSD leapfrogs other OSes in certain areas, that's all the better, but it isn't a goal. The FreeBSD project is _not_ driven by marketing, and I will certainly do my (albeit small) part to ensure that it stays that way. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "Very funny, Scotty. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com Now beam down my clothes." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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