From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 23:19:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4212816A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:19:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m18.mx.aol.com (imo-m18.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6D443D46 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:19:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Tm4528@aol.com) Received: from Tm4528@aol.com by imo-m18.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id k.11.3c133712 (4418); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:18:55 -0500 (EST) From: Tm4528@aol.com Message-ID: <11.3c133712.2f0dcfde@aol.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:18:54 EST To: tom@vilot.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:19:18 -0000 In a message dated 1/5/05 3:59:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, tom@vilot.com writes: Rather, it was the people who *developed* the *free* and very powerful operating system (that he is attempting to use) he called stupid. I'm still waiting to see him post an apology. I, for one, am humbled by the BSD teams. They do work I don't believe I could ever do, regardless of my 15 years of work in software. Well you are worshiping the wrong mountain, my friend, because the people who developed the free, powerful OS you speak of are mostly long gone. The current "team" is reponsible for a "new" version that is 1/4 slower than its predecessor. Doesn't seem so awesome to me.