Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:18:14 -0500 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: Jamie <jamie@geniegate.com>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Vance Siemens <vance.siemens@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... Message-ID: <20120520231814.GA40576@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <1120936952.633013.1337546532026.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <20120520170702.GY22790@mule.podro.com> <1120936952.633013.1337546532026.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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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?
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