From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 00:23:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A97516A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp800.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp800.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A23F243FB1 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcrudy@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-67-121-152-98.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net (HELO pacbell.net) (dcrudy@pacbell.net@67.121.152.98 with plain) by smtp1.bt.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Oct 2003 07:23:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3F8A52E8.6010708@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:23:20 -0700 From: Daniel Rudy Organization: SBC Internet Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11R6; U; FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <002801c38fb1$95e804e0$0200a8c0@sbcgolbal.net> In-Reply-To: <002801c38fb1$95e804e0$0200a8c0@sbcgolbal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: A case of FreeBSD users shooting all FreeBSD users in the foot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dcrudy@pacbell.net List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 07:23:13 -0000 Somewhere around the time of 10/10/2003 21:38, the world stopped and listened as R.Bagby contributed this to humanity: > Found this on a google search. > > The comments were incredible. > > Very unfortunate if this is the only view people have of FreeBSD users. > > > > BABE in the Woods: A Linux User Migrates to FreeBSD > Open for Business > ... used one of the major BSD variants (other than the highly customized > Mac OS X). Ed Hurst, a writer and a long time GNU/Linux user, decided > to give FreeBSD a try ... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The source of much of his problem is that fact that he was using the 5.x code tree. Someone, anyone, should have told him not to use that one but to use the more mature 4.x code tree. That would have provided a much better experience for him. He did say that he will be trying 4.8-STABLE, so let's see what he write about in part 2. -- Daniel Rudy