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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 08:48:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        conrads@neosoft.com
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Goodbye, FreeBSD!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990528084834.darius@dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990527125648.51A3D15827@hub.freebsd.org>

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On 27-May-99 Conrad Sabatier wrote:
>  Unfortunately, FreeBSD has been, and I suspect always will be, 
>  seriously lagging behind the mainstream OSes as far as multimedia, 
>  and I'm just really tired of feeling "left out".

Yes, still give that its main focus is 'server OS' I think you probably picked
the wrong ship to sail on when you started off..

>  fantastically easy to install and upgrade.  It is *so* nice once 
>  again to be able to just click on a file in my file manager, have the 
>  associated app come up and have everything just *work*.

Ahh well, you just wait until you get to reinstall Windows a few times.. it
takes the fun edge away from everything 'just working'.

>  Ya'all take care.  I will miss the rich hacking environment FreeBSD 
>  offers, but I certainly won't miss feeling like the orphaned 
>  stepchild all the time as I visit web sites whose content I'm unable 
>  to experience, and being envious of all those great apps that are 
>  available for other OSes.

Why don't you just dual boot? Then you can look at the 'funky multimedia stuff'
in Windows (and given that I have avi files Windows media player won't play but
xanim will I'm a *little* dubious) and hack around in FreeBSD.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum




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