Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 15:38:07 -0400 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> To: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com>, jesuscash@cox.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another reason to like FreeBSD Message-ID: <200305051538.07956.PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F146yMYXgdlkEA0001068b@hotmail.com> References: <Sea1-F146yMYXgdlkEA0001068b@hotmail.com>
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I had FreeBSD 4.5 running on my laptop and dearly loved it. Wish I could go back! Problem was there was not enough interest from BSD users to get Netraverse to port Win4Lin to BSD. Any progress on this? I have 2 legacy Windoze apps I must run, and Win4Lin is the only way to run them ! Mike On Friday 02 May 2003 04:24 pm, clayton rollins wrote: > >on Fri, 02 May 2003 11:15:14 Jesus Cash <jesuscash@cox.net> wrote: > > > >Also it seems lately tha the major distributions of Linux are full of > >bloat, not getting to be much different than Windows. I have a P100 laptop > >I use for writing and some times some Nintendo emulation. I tried loading > >Red Hat 9 on it, stripping it down of course... But it wouldn't even let > > me do that. Just flat out said no way, your system sucks. > > > >Where I work there's a group of people some of us call the Cult of Gentoo. > >While one of them is just doing it to fit in (the guy can hardly tech > >Windows, which is our job), they all talk about about Gentoo's ease of use > >compared to the other distros and other *NIX kernels, their arguements > >inevitably lead to Gentoo's "emerge" function. I keep telling them that > >FreeBSD has two very similar systems of installing programs, and it does > > it about the same, downloading dependencies automatically. Not too sure > > if Gentoo patches itself either. Not to mention I didn't have to go > > through some huge set-up to get FreeBSD running AND FreeBSD actually > > detected my NIC, which Gentoo didn't. Another guy at work and I are just > > getting into FreeBSD and already we've had less issues than the guys that > > have been running Gentoo since they first put it out. One of these days > > I'm gonna log into "The Cult's" computers and change their desktop > > wallpapers to BSD centric images. > > > >Viva La Revolution! :P > > > >-B > > > >P.S. > >I know there may still be some linux ethusists out there on this list, > > this is nothing against you or Linux, it's against just some of the > > kernel's followers. I'm sure there are some who can argue this better > > than they can and beat me, but eh... I'm only defending my kernel of > > choice from the uninformed. After all, despite "The Cult's" presence, I > > still take all the Linux calls. > > (snip) > > If you want to be outright mean, try the logo from > http://www.linuxisforbitches.com/ (a site devoted to poking fun at LUsers > like your 'cult') > > Peace, > Clayton > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.20 lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 4.0 www.netraverse.com
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