Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Understood. I just think saying "let's get rid of floppies" is > shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because you don't like > that dog, to stretch the analogy.
I don't think you have any idea how difficult it is (and has been for a couple of years now) just to keep the install floppies alive. The kernel keeps growing, and the amount of "must-have" features (such as acpi) keeps growing, and every time the boot floppies overflow we have to toss out yet another driver that about a dozen people vehemently tell us they can't live without. To rephrase this in terms of your analogy, the dog was hit by a bus two years ago and has been on artificial life support ever since, and it's starting to dawn on us that we can no longer afford the hospital bill. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
