From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 16:18:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E5514C3D for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 16:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA41864; Fri, 28 May 1999 08:48:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990527125648.51A3D15827@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 08:48:34 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: conrads@neosoft.com Subject: RE: Goodbye, FreeBSD! Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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