Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/09/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You did: by putting the disc in. Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. How is that bad logic?

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
I may sometimes want it mounted as /opt instead. SVR4 cruftiness in BSD?! I'm shocked! :-P ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/09/06, Gilbert Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dream. A dream of unification. Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. But when you tell yourself that it cannot be done, you don't

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Rahul Siddharthan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/06, dereck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Linux] are copying known work, shooting for a target that has already been hit. Hit by Mac OS X, perhaps. Which I can't install on my computer even if I wanted to: Apple won't let me. The

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If Yahoo (to pick the one big vendor I remember making a big thing of using a BSD) don't reincorporate their changes, perhaps that's because the license allows them not to? If you think that Yahoo! has

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 14:47, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 31/08/06, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If Yahoo (to pick the one big vendor I remember making a big thing of using a BSD) don't

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Gilles Gravier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Ruhl wrote: The reason why apache and perl shouldn't be included is because they are moving, 3rd party targets. They are better suited to pkgsrc. And of course, GCC isn't... a moving 3rd party target? Gilles. Good point. It's

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Andy Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, defining (poorly) the OS to include so much else has been a liability for NetBSD in many ways. It has massively slowed the adoption of new software versions (e.g. GCC), for one.

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 01/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/09/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, should I then switch to Linux because they do welcome 'vendor written drivers'? If by 'vendor-written drivers' you mean binary-only drivers, then no, the linux kernel developers

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 31/08/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. If true, unfortunate. A sad day. Jeff. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list