Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:28:32 -0800 From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current Gentoo user Message-ID: <49bf44f10712140828s1bc2513y5ef27935a67eead7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200712141605.lBEG52rJ005843@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <49bf44f10712122100y45f12f77q4ae47f311905be25@mail.gmail.com> <200712131947.lBDJlMeZ008204@satan.anjos.strangled.net> <49bf44f10712132026p21717597wc6e592a1a19dad4e@mail.gmail.com> <4762073A.4090402@varusonline.com> <49bf44f10712140643p6b671948n168fdf1b24e7bb13@mail.gmail.com> <200712141605.lBEG52rJ005843@fire.js.berklix.net>
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> > > >>> It has recently come to my attention that FreeBSD is "similar" to > > > >>> Gentoo Linux. I've been a Gentoo user for about 5 years and I love > > > >>> the concept, but it feels like the project is slowing down. I like to > > > >>> learn/use/know one OS for server, media system, laptop, router, etc. > > > >>> How would you compare the two OSes? > > Good Grief ! Too many questions on wrong list Grant, Install BSD > & try it! Not that questions & answers aren't interesting, but on > the wrong list. Please read the list charter for advocacy@ you got > when you subscribed. > > Those with time & interest to read a list with individual questions > are subscribed to questions@. Newbie questions belong on questions@, > not on advocacy@. As you appear to not yet even be commited to > being a newbie, you're over quota on advocacy@ > > "Compare this & that" questions can be politically loaded, often > asked by trolls, not that I'm suggesting you are, but its happened > before, & people may be walking on egg shells, trying to answer all > your questions diplomatically, but sooner or later an egg shell may > burst, to reveal those aren't safe chicken eggs but hide the snappy > fire emitting jaws of Jurassic Park raptors ;-) I don't want to > see flames from accidents between *BSD (or Debian). > > advocacy@ is to eg plan advocacy & PR campaigns & media contacts/ > promos etc to attract a mass of interest in FreeBSD, It is not time > effective, or the right forum, to here support individual non user > questions. Please subscribe questions@ read http://freebsd.org more, > then post to questions@freebsd.org Thanks. > > Julian I misinterpreted "advocacy" then. I apologize. - Grant
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