From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 20:59:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9767316A42A for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 20:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc6-cmbg1-0-0-cust82.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.10.236.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B801543D46 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 20:59:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.61 #1) id 1FbORk-000OAr-CA by authid for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 21:59:44 +0100 Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 21:59:44 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060503205944.GC79222@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060502172801.GB61778@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20060502210618.GA26953@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20060502222456.GA81178@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: danielby@slightlystrange.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on catflap.slightlystrange.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 20:59:48 -0000 --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:21:34PM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote: > Daniel, >=20 > Thank you very much for your help. I am golden now. Everything is > working and I am really impressed with FreeBSD (I came from Linux > world, particularly Debian). I got sound, USB etc working now and the > process was quite enjoyable. I'm glad to hear it's all going well! FreeBSD is put together in such a way that it is enjoyable to work with - things tend not to change places between releases, and if they do it's usually for a cogent reason. The documentation is great, and so is the community. I hope you enjoy your stay! > Your explanation about ports versioning really belongs in the > handbook. If you know the doc maintainers it would be great if this > info can be added to the handbook. Thanks! I will rewrite it a bit and submit a PR. If the maintainers agree, then it'll get in, I guess. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEWRm/ixf5fBYiFmoRAhEDAKCkx7y4wx0R4LesCjalCUL65AX9FwCfVRJr NQhqLtyU9uqyIV96hFfLOqo= =Tf3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD--