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From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com>
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Subject: Re: Hello and FYI:
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And Marc van Woerkom spoke:
> > I've been researching going from linux to BSD.  I spent the past two
> > days reading up on it and trying to get some information on various
> > distributions.  Very sad to say that the IRC channels for any form of
> > BSD are even less useful than the linux channels (hard to imagine, I
> > know :).
> 
> Possibly a different culture. We are supposed to be left over hippies 
> from the 60ies or something like that, aren't we? :)
> 
> I would say most FreeBSD related shared communication
> goes via the mailing lists at freebsd.org, some other useful information
> can be found on sites like 
> 
>     http://www.daemonnews.org
>     http://www.freebsdzine.org
>     http://www.freebsddiary.org
> 
> But wait, I seem to remember that the folks from freebsddiary.org are active
> on IRC.. have a look there.
> 
> On the other hand, you're here, not exactly a bad place for questions.
> What was your problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Marc

Try #freebsd on us.undernet.org if you want IRC.  I've never seen it with
less than 50 people logged in and they often answer technical questions.

Joseph


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