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Date:      Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:15:38 -0500
From:      "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
Message-ID:  <4ad871310812131415j155967dbsb4ea39e30b6e7f6f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081213205742.U44489@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>>>> freebsd-chat@?
>>>
>>> indeed. with this and other non-freebsd topics
>>
>> You, yourself, spawn this kind of digression into off-topicness every now
>> and then.  Perhaps *you* should reserve some of *your* comments for
>> freebsd-chat, too.
>
> And certainly will AFTER such offtopic discussion won't be appearing here.
>
> i mean such offtopic discussion like:
>
> - comparision of things that can't be compared, and are not FreeBSD
> specific, like "what is better windoze or KDE"
>

I have yet to see a topic on questions@ regarding windows vs KDE.

> - how to make <some very basic things> is KDE/Gnome - it's not FreeBSD
> specific, of course we can answer how to do it without KDE/Gnome :)
>

I agree with this, to a point.  That's what freebsd-kde@,
freebsd-gnome@ are for, but sometimes questions are too generalized,
and end up here.

> - "When there will be 64-bit Nvidia Xorg support" - ask NVidia or Xorg team.
> It's not part of FreeBSD
>

It is, indirectly.  Although the FreeBSD developers shouldn't be
responsible for this kind of thing, they most probably have more
direct contact and "inside information" with these type of vendors.

>
> after there will be stopped, i will stop complaining

Doubtful.


-- 
Glen Barber



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