From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 7 07:17:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE1316A415 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:17:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Matt@iXsystems.com) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADBFD43D62 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:17:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Matt@iXsystems.com) Received: (qmail 68118 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2006 07:17:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (mattoo@pacbell.net@70.231.140.187 with plain) by smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2006 07:17:02 -0000 Message-ID: <455032ED.9020104@iXsystems.com> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:17:01 -0800 From: Matt Olander Organization: iXsystems User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Old Ranger References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greetings X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:17:05 -0000 Old Ranger wrote: > Is anyone out there? > Greetings Pastor Wade! I'm out here ;-) > Anyone want to discuss the merits of 4.2 compared to 6.1? > What about gnome -vs- kde? > Haha, I'm just now upgrading a couple of 4.5 machines to 6.1 and only because the 4.5 boxes are running out of space. They ran beautifully for many years. The 6.1 boxes are soooo much faster though that it's almost pleasant to run accounting queries in less than 10 seconds that took 3 minutes or more before. While I've never been a big fan of either gnome or kde, since I've been paying attention to PC-BSD lately, KDE looks to have come a long long way. My wife absolutely loves it, and as soon as PC-BSD 1.3 comes out, we're switching our entire office over to it. They added a fluxbox option during install though, which is what I've been running for years, so I'll probably go with that most of the time. > Let's talk email clients... > Years of mutt but I've been sold on Thunderbird for awhile now. It seems to catch most spams that get through the mail server. It's a good IMAP client. For webmail, I used to love IMP, but broke it on our mailserver ages ago and so we switched to SquirrelMail. It's not pretty, but it does the job. Hopefully, we'll be using Zimbra on FreeBSD soon though. Cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 Fax: (408)943-4101 --