From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 6 09:42:22 2007 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 7B1CA16A41A for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail43.e.nsc.no (mail43.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D4613C457 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:42:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [62.16.173.224] (062016173224.customer.alfanett.no [62.16.173.224]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail43.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l869g6U7014102 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:42:06 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <46DFCB8C.7030309@netscape.net> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:42:36 +0200 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070906083333.GA72351@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20070906083333.GA72351@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out.... 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: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:42:22 -0000 Michel Talon wrote: > ... and X locks up at least once a day. Well, mine doesn't. > It is not > very difficult to understand why Ubuntu is massively gaining users, > while FreeBSD doesn't, and is now ranked position 22 on Distrowatch. Add together FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD - FreeBSD will then be at position 9. I am sure Ubuntu is a good system in many ways. But FreeBSD's position on DistroWatch is very impressive for a system that is not Linux, is not actively promoted, does not even attempt to be user-friendly ... and whose name does not mean a thing in any African language. -- Tore