Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:14:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> Cc: Denis Malyavin <denism@mol.net.my>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960430170941.2520C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604300124.TAA01656@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Do you think its worth to install FreeBSD on my system? > > > > It'll be tight, depending on what you put on. you need to have enough > > space either on there or on another FreeBSD machine to build a new kernel > > for. You _want_ to apply the Nomad PCMCIA patches. > ^^^^^^ > > Hey, I take offense at that. The code in the Nomad's patches now exists > almost completely in -current, plus there are lots of bug-fixes for the > APM code in -current that doesn't exist in the Nomad patches. Yes, but most of us don't want to run -current, especially on a laptop. We had to upgrade our Dell to the SNAP so that we could keep up with the patches, which are based on it. But that thing won't run -current as long as I say so. Maybe this desktop, yes, but the laptop is a toy, and we can't spend our time fiddling with it. We spend enough time fiddling with our machines as it is, and they're all on 2.1. If Denis wants to run -current, he can. I was assuming for the 2.1-R case. > If people don't run the actual FreeBSD code we'll never get real working > laptop support in a FreeBSD release. I emailed Hosokawa-san about this, > and he agrees. The Nomad code will continue to be 'alpha' quality > containing hacks and bad things that 'make things work', intended for > proof of concept than actual implementations. Then put it in -stable. -Current is too UNstable for non-hackers to run. > However, the code in -current, while still containing some hacks, is > trying to be a more 'usable' solution for laptops. Exactly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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