Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:12:05 +0100 (CET) From: "Per Engelbrecht" <per@xterm.dk> To: <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <36414.62.242.151.142.1073556725.squirrel@mailbox.wingercom.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> References: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net>
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Hi Matthew and others I think that we all can find reasons to (or not to) use floppies, but I don'tthink that was the issue in Scott's mail. The generational change from 4.x to 5.x where the majority of the code hasbeen rewritten (in my opinion an extremly healthy sign for any kind of serious development) has taken it's toll on the develepors and commiterstime and energy, which is why they need to fix some kind of order of priorityin their future work. Evolution has caught up beasts as mammuth's, Cherry Coke and floppies. I for one, won't miss them and would rather have the developer team spenttheir time on security, SMP, GEOM and other vital and important issues. Best regards /per per@xterm.dk > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of > Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will >> support this CD format, please take in to account: > > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, > and even if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a > CD blank just to install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 > floppies and do it across the LAN from a local FTP mirror, which > is as fast as a CD drive anyway. > > It seems to me that we could split more out into modules, and/or > add more disks of modules (maybe categorize a "storage device" > modules disk, a "network drivers" modules disk, etc, keeping just > the more common devices in the main kernel). Last I saw, the > current system only created a single modules disk, which was a > godsend to a kernel overflowing one disk, but as we add more and > more stuff becomes another, albeit larger, noose. > > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | > http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > > "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I > haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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