memory and VM issues

danil osipchuk danil-home at tsnet.ru
Fri Jul 15 18:14:51 UTC 2005


Alan Grimes wrote:

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>Wile the BSD based systems are not without technical merit, I consider
>them a throwaback to the age when Unix ran only on minicomputers and
>were acessd only with dumb terminals. -- I am acquainted with a user
>that only uses his BSD machine in that fassion.
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>Therefore I don't consider it a valid target platform for Squeak. -- The
>users aren't interested in multimedia environments at all!
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>Yes, this supports my thesis about why we shouldn't care about *BSD users.
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And, please, stop trolling *BSD users. For instance, here in Russia BSD 
systems do compete with Linux as desktop environment in terms of 
popularity. I have two - laptop at work and this box at home with 
videos, music etc., and it is somewhat funny to hear "we shouldn't care 
about *BSD users" (not to mention that Mac OS is BSD based).




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