Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Ruhl
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. It also contributed to the perception that a bette

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Ruhl
On 8/31/06, Gilles Gravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ahem... so no Apache... but why games, X11, compiler? So don't install the games set, the X set, or the comp set if you don't want that stuff. I think the point I'm trying to make is, apache is certainly not something *most* people will use

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Andy Ruhl
On 8/31/06, Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. Bingo. Good point. This point is lost sometimes. I believe NetBSD has the proper philosophy in regards to the entire OS as well. I don't want apache built in, for instance. Andy

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Andy Ruhl
On 8/30/06, Charles M. Hannum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has Let me start by saying I'm probably not qualified to reply to this thread, but I was never worried about making a fool out of myself before so here goes... I am a form