From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 13:59:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com (cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com [24.0.114.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9F514D34 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00546; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff) From: jeff Message-Id: <199906162059.NAA00546@cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com> Subject: Re: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :) In-Reply-To: from Steve Hovey at "Jun 16, 1999 4:38:51 pm" To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:59:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, iratus@home.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reply To: iratus@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1307 > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > Hello-I couldn't (though probably should) resist-I came to FBSD from linux > > slackware because it WAS idiot proof in installation and I found the file > > system much cleaner and easier to work with-IMHO all it (FBSD) really needs > > is the agressive marketing part-No flames PLEASE-just my 2cents worth. > > Jeff phillips > > > No no - I agree on this compared to slakware - but something closer to a > win95 put it in and make coffee - including some hanging probe fixes would > help to sew it up. Also, if there were some utility for Xwindows that > didnt make it such a trick to get running correctly (and it is a trick > unless you are very familiar with it) > and/or a way to utilize win95/NT device drivers as is > > Well I do think you are dead right on X-No doubt as a GUI it is (or can be) a real trick to get running-I admit I may suffer from a kind of attitude that says interest will win in the end-I WOULD like to see a larger audience for FBSD-The only point I am leary of is the one about MS drivers (is that what they are called :-) ? Oh well only time will tell-in the mean time I am going to see how much trouble I can get into as soon as 3.2 hits my door. Cheers and take care jeff phillips To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message