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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:43:03 -0400
From:      Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is xtend in the base system?
Message-ID:  <19980422144303.A10586@rtfm.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980422155851.16544@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:58:51PM %2B0200
References:  <199804220124.KAA07682@cain.gsoft.com.au> <xzpogxuaz2l.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <19980422155851.16544@follo.net>

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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:58:51PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:13:54PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
> > "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.
> 
> ... or within 5 meter of a monitor.

Or within 50 miles of an X-10.

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