From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 21:15:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF24A1065674 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordofhyphens@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2B98FC16 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so4104082iwn.13 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:15:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i98QKOQ/jxr8Wd4Q8hGeMmA2dqSpwWI+w8mdc25pKsc=; b=cEKurVwMQhm2fdckDNQs1HdnDUiZ/SGtb2uvo4Uxjw55kwl0NzWBt5maUB2xAJdC9x MMPkNpuXp5poCrHaWe3Xy7KueOrOohfpeOY4NiFb93uMQARv+cr13QZEceYcoNatZJfc 7Z/wdePVGmHrarfdn6Gi93nU3cjfWJnFd5a5o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ltOaxU+9svhyiwcXzu+UNyITF0B8XC/YITdZkv7sC/jBAu8vMq0RwOadRT8xOTN+TB RmlgRfU32D4kWG9Iw0ks/hCKjdD3EQ5756T5Auu4SWmvB8Lg+IZ5mmsBob+chsaS+p/Y Rr4UCXq4PD0L9qeVqHJXp7OSykp/Mt6kkSfkQ= Received: by 10.42.215.66 with SMTP id hd2mr9922317icb.323.1288385539130; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [131.230.191.154] (ee173.engr.siu.edu [131.230.191.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm4103049ibi.2.2010.10.29.13.52.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CCB33F9.6090704@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:52:09 -0500 From: Joseph Lenox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101012 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4CC61FF7.9050605@centurytel.net> <4CC63A64.2070807@centurytel.net> In-Reply-To: <4CC63A64.2070807@centurytel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:15:42 -0000 On 10/25/2010 09:18 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > I have not looked at PC-BSD because I thought the BSD's were all > somewhat similar (powerful, stable, and secure). I only moved off of > Debian due to feature bloat and the 'Fedoraizing' it (debian) is > experiencing. Richard Bejtlich talks so highly of FreeBSD in his "TAO > of Network Security Monitoring" book. Anyway, please forgive me for > not providing more information on the above build issue. I should > have been more patient. > I remember seeing that the Debian Project is elevating their GNU/kFreeBSD distro set to "official" for Lenny. I use FreeBSD for my home server, Debian Lenny for my laptop and our new lab machines (running EDA tools)... and am stuck with Solaris for the time being. *jedi hand wave* Pay no attention to that Win7 VM--it's just there for OneNote 2010. --Joseph Lenox