> One feature that FreeBSD may be missing is the dynamic behavior of desktop and mobile machines, which doesn't seem to map well to the existing init scripts.

I keep seeing this argument, and i keep wondering what it is actually trying to say.

Just about the only time i can think of that i want to spin up a daemon in response to hardware changes would be with a USB bluetooth dongle, as it would require certain daemons to get working.

But the cost of just leaving a deamon idle in ram seems much lower than having to engineer a whole new init that monitor /dev changes so that it can start or stop a process or two in response to them.

Then again, maybe i am not the laptop packing dev convention goer that seems to use their laptop more like an oversized phone than a laptop (never mind a desktop).

Edit: damn keyboard ignored the copy command somehow, so i had the wrong quote pasted...