From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 16:37:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597C416A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5B143F93 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([213.46.142.207]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030903233751.KZL6169.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:37:51 +0200 Message-ID: <3F567B24.8050809@sitetronics.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:37:08 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <20030902201040.A13576@knight.ixsystems.net> <3F55E1FC.3010701@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3F55E1FC.3010701@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TechTV - FreeBSD v. Linux Shootout X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:37:57 -0000 So, where's the MPEG for the TechTV-impaired... --Devon Eric Anderson wrote: > Matt Olander wrote: > [..snip..] > >> Murray, unless I'm mistaken, the linux guy must have fudged a bit at the >> end of the install because after we'd finished, his screen still showed >> like 35 minutes to go and then he immediately plugged in his laptop ;) > > > Sadly enough, even my wife noticed that. We were both watching as the > install was creeping by on the linux machine, and FreeBSD was > completely done, ready to roll. They broke for commercial, and the > next thing you know he is up and running full desktop. My wife said > "aren't they still installing? I thought they still had a lot > left?".. I had no response for her. > > I did notice how defensive the linux guy was.. must have had too much > caffeine before the show or something.. > > Eric > > >