From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 20 23:18:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96401065672; Sun, 20 May 2012 23:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net (diana.db.net [66.113.102.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501C58FC0A; Sun, 20 May 2012 23:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from night.db.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diana.db.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C9A2AA391; Sun, 20 May 2012 17:18:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: by night.db.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DE4985C5A; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:18:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:18:14 -0500 From: Diane Bruce To: Rick Macklem Message-ID: <20120520231814.GA40576@night.db.net> References: <20120520170702.GY22790@mule.podro.com> <1120936952.633013.1337546532026.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1120936952.633013.1337546532026.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Jamie , Vincent Hoffman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav , Vance Siemens Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 23:18:23 -0000 On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:42:12PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > Jamie wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:20:18PM -0400, Vance Siemens wrote: > > > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from ... > Well, I worked for a computer science dept. for 30years and it seemed > to go something like this: > - Undergrad installs "toy" version of Linux on their desktop/laptop, > likes it and promotes it to their friends. > - When these students graduate, they put Linux/Unix experience on their > resume and get hired by a company with no Unix-like systems expertise. > --> They set up Linux servers for said company. > > If the same was happening for xxBSD, then they would list that as well as > Linux and they would at least be aware that both existed. I don't believe > FreeBSD needs to try and do the easy to install GUI distro, but they could > reference the xxBSD distros that do try to do this. (Yea, I know someone > didn't like using the term distro for xxBSD distributions, but...) And when I do get people to look at PCBSD since it looks so spiffy, they download an ISO only to have it not boot. It's incredibly frustrating. > > rick - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db Why leave money to our children if we don't leave them the Earth?