Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:36:59 -0500 From: Deekin Scalesinger <deekin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <39282b3d04110512365c9dfb82@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d07305604110512203c73604e@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d07305604110512203c73604e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello All: This is my first post as well to this group, but Xinizul makes a point which I also would like to echo. A bittorrent of the distros seems to me to go along with the community nature of FreeBSD and I am sure would help to cut down on the bandwidth costs for our current suppliers of ISOs. I am also fairly certain that this is not the proper forum to bring up this topic, but I have been lurking for a while on this list and had nary a worthwhile comment to make until now :) - if there is a bittorrent of this already amd I am ignorant of the fact, would someone be kind enough to point it out to me? Thank you! On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:20:50 +0100, Xinizul Xinizul <xinizul@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all: > > Just to make happy our forum leader ;-) I'm going to post my feelings > about FreeBSD as a beginner: > > I'm soiftware developer new to FreeBSD (but not new to Linux for instance). > > I decide to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 because I want to install definetely > something stable and .... free of course > > I don't understand people going into Linux because they want a free > distro and then installs something like SUSE, Mandrake or RedHat. > > Well in fact I'm waitin for release 5.3 to appear to install > definetely FreeBSD and start to building my own work station and > services for fun. > > One of the things I more like about this distro is: > > 1) Support for hardware is good: It detect my SATA hardrive (SUSE 9.0 > didn't a month ago) but must improve (it didn't detect my ASUS > WIFI@home card :-( ... but I'm waitin for 5.3 and its Project Evil to > see how it imports Windows Drivers !!! > > 2) Excellent the "Handbook": Really really good , ideal for beginners. > > 3) Easy Setup -except for the partition configuration that still it is > a bit confusing- > > 4) Linux compatibility support must improve since I've tried to > compile some dirver (yes for my WIFI card) using the sourcecode tar > provided by the manufacturer but didin't work (well in fact this is a > problem of the manufacturer for not having into account FreeBSD users > : http://www.ralinktech.com.tw) > > 5) I like the community, I think it is well organized through the port > mechanism. > > 6) Nice Logo of course > > Interesting Spanish forums and FTP sites. > > One request if possible ... it would like if FreeBSD site could use > bittorrent to post the releases ... very useful when downloading the > large ISO images. > > That's all my post, cheers to all. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- What is wrong? Look around, boss! We is going inside Evil Fortress of DOOM!! That is *never* good.
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