From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 09:18:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F656106564A for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:18:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-117.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-117.bluehost.com [69.89.22.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C69D8FC19 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:18:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 27354 invoked by uid 0); 13 Dec 2008 09:18:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2008 09:18:50 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=OHNK3lkvFsy6RcxdJMo2ENjECqBgs1oUGmVdb49dgg8mSVQO/Q7On0thrEI2zI4AFr+MuS2GHlWNhuX1X2b26DsSts17EMb5d1nYKfHxLpFBA6dG6ObskNG5vIO6LJhB; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LBQeA-0007AP-8O for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:18:50 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:18:25 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:18:25 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081213091825.GB39031@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081212174607.GC36348@kokopelli.hydra> <4942B6A3.504@gmail.com> <18754.48923.616173.319215@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081212205614.GB37185@kokopelli.hydra> <31371229120906@webmail12.yandex.ru> <87iqppdlzh.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081213002037.F5665@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <877i64c3zt.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081213015514.GA47452@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <86bpvgmrma.fsf@nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86bpvgmrma.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:18:50 -0000 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:00:45AM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote: > Jerry McAllister writes: >=20 >=20 > > But, we can _gently_ (it hasn't always been so gentle) teach > > newbies that the list is meant for something higher than just > > repeatedly ragging on why isn't FreeBSD more like MS or RHEL > > or whatever. >=20 > Or even "why isn't FreeBSD more like FreeBSD used to be back in the day?" >=20 > As a newcomer to FreeBSD (who will never be a programmer or serious > sysadmin) I'm grateful for the firm but fair approach taken here by most > people, for the toleration of my occasional inanities, and for helpful > answers.=20 >=20 > I'm also grateful to Chad for helping me look at again at Compiz-fusion - > I prefer fvwm myself, but CF IS gorgeous, no doubt about it, and my > eleven year old thinks its cool :-)=20 Thanks for expressing your appreciation. I don't have any interest in using Compiz Fusion in my day to day life, either, but it sure is an eye opener and fun to look at every once in a while. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth James Madison: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklDfeEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKU6ywCeMNqRUfC5WKnrpHbG8ZjZtIlm RjIAni781jeRVKrECtrt0D81BMe8GNa4 =LD4y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--