From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 26 10:45:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (mail1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA5637B4CF for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marx.elvisinthemorning.net ([24.17.229.11]) by mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001026174517.OBBR20067.mail1.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.elvisinthemorning.net>; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:45:17 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.elvisinthemorning.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9QHjfw77025; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:45:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vcardona) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:45:40 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Tim McMillen Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001026124540.A65233@home.com> References: <000f01c03f67$8b2e90c0$aa240018@cx443070b> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from timcm@umich.edu on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:04:03PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:04:03PM -0400, Tim McMillen wrote: > Some of the larger OEM's can start to offer Linux but that's all > they are likely to do soon because of the training costs involved. When > the mass market (even those that are savvy enough to handle a free unix > system) buys a computer they want it to be fully configured when they get > it. It would have to have X windows and KDE or Gnome installed > But then there is still th whole issue with M$'s strongarm tactics > below. Hell, I would be happy if I could just get a system w/o an OS. Oh well, I build my own anyway:-) Victor Cardona To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message