From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 17:38:00 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 E30721065675 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:38:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5606B8FC08 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:37:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl7-22.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.134.22]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mBDHboBk015284 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:37:56 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBDHbo0e003350; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:37:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBDHbncx003349; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:37:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Wojciech Puchar References: <20081213143200.GA5026@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <18755.53118.854987.966113@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081213182336.V41178@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:37:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20081213182336.V41178@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (Wojciech Puchar's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:24:13 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: <87skosf02b.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: mBDHboBk015284 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.859, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.54, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Robert Huff , Michel Talon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.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 17:38:01 -0000 On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:24:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Technical note: questions@ may be an appropriate forum for > > general discussion about FreeBSD, or general discussion about > thousands of unix software that runs on unices including FreeBSD? I don't see the difference. If a program runs on FreeBSD it runs on FreeBSD, so it _is_ something that FreeBSD users may be interested in for their every day work. Does it really matter if the particular piece of software also runs on AmigaOS? Not really, IMO :)