From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 21 6:23:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935CB37B419 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b215.otenet.gr [212.205.244.223]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3LDNL5q026582; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:23:22 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3LDNF7C010565; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:23:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3LD1wiq010237; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:01:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:01:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Filipak Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why would one switch to FreeBSD (was: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy?) Message-ID: <20020421130157.GC8347@hades.hell.gr> References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC24B33.7102597C@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CC24B33.7102597C@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Moved to -advocacy, since this is not an answer to -questions anymore. ] On 2002-04-21 01:16, Mark Filipak wrote: > | Important Facts > | =============== > | * The existing installation has *no* man pages. > | * The existing installation has *no* MS-DOS clone commands (e.g., > | "mcd", "mcopy", etc.) > | * I could not figure out if the system has what it takes to mount an > | MS-DOS file system -- I don't know where things are. > | * The resulting floppy must be readable by Win98SE. > > It will indeed be a pleasure when I have a running 4.5 system to play > with. Especially when you realize that it has all the manpages you need in the base system. That there is a compiler in there too. That a wealth of tools & applications can be installed by installing simply a precompiled package with pkg_add (which can automatically fetch and install dependencies too), or recompile your own packages from the ports. That you have the full source to the system, and can casually browse the source looking for interesting ideas when you implement your own applications. There might be disadvantages hidden in there somewhere (such as increased disk space usage, when the full source tree is installed), but I'll let you find out about those as you start using the system. Ever since I switched to FreeBSD, I discover more reasons every day for not stopping to use it :) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message