From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 15:52:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47DF37B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-143-80.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.143.80]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA08196; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:51:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <029601c0cdda$5b52c6d0$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "C Peter Biessener" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: OS's and proper computers Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:52:04 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you took the trouble to read the thread properly you'd discover that I was not the originator .... in fact I believe it was one of the experts, & furthermore this IS still a FreeBSD list as far as I'm aware so AppleMac fanciers should reasonably expect to cop some flak ----- Original Message ----- From: "C Peter Biessener" To: "FreeBSD Questions" ; "Doug Young" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:03 AM Subject: OS's and proper computers > > As someone around here said recently, FreeBSD users prefer "proper" > > computers ie NOT AppleMacs :) Seriously though I was certainly aware of > the > > OpenBSD support, but thats not a relevant issue for me ... & many > > "serious" users are probably in the same boat for that matter. > > I choose to take issue with that statement. IMO, a Macintosh IS the only > "proper" computer - but I won't get into that debate here. Please DO NOT > flame Macintoshes in the future, it doesn't belong here! As far as the > IBM-compatible platform goes, FreeBSD does seem to be the way to go for an > OS. Our FreeBSD machines are the only IBM-compatible machines which do not > require any support (after we set them up properly in our developmetn lab). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message