From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 02:38:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475401065670 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 02:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF52B8FC0A for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 02:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q542cEIm026691; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:38:14 -0600 From: Erich To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:38:12 +0700 Message-ID: <2591094.kj36vbmPD5@x220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4FCC1357.9030302@missouri.edu> References: <4FCC1357.9030302@missouri.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Subject: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:38:16 -0000 Hi, On 03 June 2012 PM 8:45:59 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On the other hand Ubuntu recently switched their Window manager, and I > hated it on their early versions. They also offered gnome3, and it just > wasn't working. So I dare not go beyond Ubuntu 10.04, and I fear the > day 10.04 becomes EOL. > while Ubuntu is certified to run on my laptop, it doesn't do so. So, I installed Fedora and it works. This might be an escape route for you if things go real bad. Erich