From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 17:42:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (danman.isdn.uiuc.edu [192.17.16.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06DB914E30 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: (qmail 15876 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1999 01:42:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:42:15 -0600 From: dannyman To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Brett Glass , Keith Stevenson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <19990302194215.F15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <4.1.19990302095928.00b3d4c0@localhost> <4.1.19990302092127.03ff9da0@localhost> <99Mar2.114516est.113920@pandora.isinet.com> <4.1.19990302095928.00b3d4c0@localhost> <19990302125540.A28002@homer.louisville.edu> <4.1.19990302130844.00ca3740@localhost> <19990302183017.A15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> <36DC8B20.A60848E7@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <36DC8B20.A60848E7@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:06:40AM +0900 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:06:40AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > dannyman wrote: > > > > I'd expect most sane people would sooner buy the CD than do a modum install. > > ;) [... a catalog of great points ...] > An FTP install by modem is not insane by any means at all. > > Perhaps your judgment might be skewed by easy availability (and fast > delivery) of the cds? That's not so common around the world... Actually, I'm just being a tease. I've always had high-speed access available to me and have sometimes wanted to be able to brag about having done a modem install. I think the PPP support is a great thing that definately gives FreeBSd an edge. Still, it is slightly silly to download your OS via modem, even if the alternatives may be even sillier. I personally rspect those who perservere through this silliness. :) -danny -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message