From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 21 15:45:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545C137B8A6 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 15:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25136; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:45:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <392867A9.D1B117E5@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:48:09 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Warner Subject: Re: Thanks! References: <3927FC85.A7075D70@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Warner wrote: > > Wes, > > Hi, my name is Joe Warner and I am a member of the Salt Lake Linux > Users Group (SLLUG). I just wanted to thank you for the excellent > presentation at the SLLUG meeting and the free software (FreeBSD 3.4). > Thanks to you, I'm really impressed with FreeBSD and it's many > capabilities. I don't know why but the way FreeBSD is set up, just > makes more sense to me. I don't know if this is just because of my > prior experience with Linux or not. I found FreeBSD easy to install and > extremely easy to add applications and run upgrades. Especially with > the ports collection. So far, I've only been able to load it on an old > NEC VERSA 2400CD laptop with a 1gig hard disk and not much RAM and it > seemed to run pretty good, except I haven't been able to get the PCMCIA > modem to work. Hopefully, they'll give me a faster/better machine to > load it on at work. > Anyway, thanks again! I don't expect a response from you because I > know how busy a guy you are. Thanks for your hard work and > inspiration! 8^} Glad to be of help. I feel the same way, FreeBSD feels much more like a cohesive whole than Linux, which has flashes of brilliance interspersed with slices of not-so-good. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message