Re: gnome

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Jimen Ching wrote:
> Also, where are all the fears coming from?  It won't work on this system,
> it won't work on that system.  Before MC was ported to FreeBSD, it didn't
> work on that system either.  Everyone is worried about all of the systems
> out there that doesn't support this kernel feature.  Why not worry about
> getting a good design and a functional environment before we worry about
> these systems?  Btw, the *BSD's does not have a problem with putting the
> vfs in the kernel.  So stop worrying.  People are porting new file systems
> into the OSS kernels all of the time.  I don't see people complaining that
[...]

Our audience does not only run OSS kernels.  I have seen messages
regarding AIX, HPUX, and Solaris float across gnome-list before.  We
simply cannot count on our audience having specific kernel features,
beyond a basic POSIX-ish and X-ish featureset.

	Jeff