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Date:      22 Apr 1998 13:13:54 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is xtend in the base system?
Message-ID:  <xzpogxuaz2l.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "Daniel O'Connor"'s message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:54:22 %2B0930"
References:  <199804220124.KAA07682@cain.gsoft.com.au>

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"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > > Why can't this be done as an lkm that is installed from a port/package?
> > Why don't we throw out the screensavers, too? And all of /usr/games,
> > /usr/share/misc, /sys/i386/isa/sound, /sys/i386/isa/snd...
> Because the screen savers anyone can use, and most people have sound cards in 
> their machines.. The number of people with X-10 systems is pretty small AFAIK..

FreeBSD is widely used by ISPs or WWW content providers on servers
which have never even been within a fifteen-mile radius of a sound
card.

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