On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:41:18 +0000
"Read, James C" <jcr...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Well there you go. Get to it. See you in 10 years.
>
> Seriously, though. The thought must have crossed your mind at least
> once during all these years of mopping up the mess that MS/Intel seem
> to have concocted over the years.
>
> I wonder what a hardware system designed by BSD bootloader, kernel
> and driver hackers would look like. I should expect that careful
> design choices in the hardware could reduce the bloat considerably.
> Not to mention the complexity.
>
> I do wonder if the best and most experienced BSD hackers got together
> and made wish list for the new line of hardware that would run a next
> generation system with no legacy baggage what would that wish list
> look like.
IMHO "no legacy baggage" is another way of saying "screw you, we're
changing it yet again, get with the program." In Linux, most
distributions are now making sure there's "no legacy baggage" in their
new, systemd equipped monoliths.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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