Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available

2003-01-14 Thread David Cuthbert
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Indeed. There is an old story from the days of the big irons, when IBM had an "objective" release criterion stating that no new release of their OS would be shipped with more than 100 major bugs. As a result, before each release, the engineers would have a big meeting

Re: 80386 out of GENERIC

2002-12-18 Thread David Cuthbert
Leif Neland wrote: But still, would it be impossible to have both a GENERIC and a GENERIC386 kernel in the distribution? Impossible, no... but would anyone use it? Seems to me that it would just take up space. And it's one more thing for the build gurus to keep a configuration for (though ma

Re: 80386 out of GENERIC

2002-12-17 Thread David Cuthbert
Juli Mallett wrote: Are you implying that these people, who are undoubtedly adding and removing lots of things in the kernel, to make things fit, and to make things do their jobs, can't be bothered to use the appropriate CPU settings? Not sure where you got that from Terry's post, but... As a s