The beastie boot menu.

Dan MacMillan flowers at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Nov 30 21:50:18 PST 2004


From: Rahul Siddharthan
> Brad Knowles wrote:
> > 	You see more crime in New York City than you do in Norman
> > Oklahoma.  Most of that is due to the fact that NYC proper has
> > something like eight million people living there, while the
> > population of Norman is just under 100,000, when all the University
> > students are in town and attending classes.
> 
> Bad example.  You see less crime in New York City, post-1990 anyway,
> than in many smaller cities like Baltimore and Chicago.  And even in
> NYC you see more crime in the low-density suburbs and less in
> high-density Manhattan.
> 
> Kris and others: let's leave Dragonfly out of it.  Nobody mentioned
> Dragonfly, except me in my first posting, and that was only to say that
> the boot menu lives on.  Nobody's advocating Dragonfly to end-users and
> certainly not to production environments yet.
> 
> The concerns about FreeBSD started to grow well before Dragonfly.
> The specific concern I raised was that nobody who matters cares about
> user-friendliness.  This thread seems to confirm that.  I suspect
> that all those who used to care about it now work for Apple...

... and now they don't anymore ;)

-- 
Danny MacMillan



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