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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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