Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:16:32 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.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: <36DC8D70.B7780F9F@newsguy.com> References: <4.1.19990302132445.040f6d40@localhost> <4.1.19990302134418.00a12530@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > Well, we all know that Jordan worked long and hard on the install > code and did all sorts of tricks to keep it to one floppy. > Nonetheless, I think that this is an important selling point. > 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. True enough. As the boot disks move to a PicoBSD-based solution, and support for kld increases, it might be viable for network installs (given the widespread boot capability of cd-roms nowadays, this might not have much demand on cd-rom installs). But people will have to work to make it happen. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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