As Daniel O'Connor wrote... > On 27-Jan-99 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually > > > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could > > Yeagh... what is wrong with ed0, de0, fxp0 etc that needs changing? Is this > > just a matter of taste or is there more to it? I for one don't see any > > advantage in eth[0-9] style device naming.
> Well, for one its sucks trying to get newbies to work out what their network > card is > called.. Not true IMO. You still need to know what hardware you have before you can build your own kernels etc etc. > Also the eth[0..x] thing means you can replace your ethernet card with a new > one of a > different type without having to look through your config code for references > to ed0 or > whatever. True. > Another thing.. we get to be more Linux like, which is a good thing, right? > *duck* Ducking does not help with todays laser-guided precision ammo ;-) ;-) And to answer your question: the day FreeBSD aims to become like Linux I'm likely to install NT. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wi...@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
