From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 19 05:32:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14816 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 05:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aaka.3skel.com (aaka.3skel.com [207.240.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14804 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:32:13 GMT (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from fnur.3skel.com (fnur.3skel.com [192.168.0.8]) by aaka.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id IAA18409; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:32:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 3skel.com (localhost.3skel.com [127.0.0.1]) by fnur.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id IAA01568; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:32:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3539EEC6.EE5CC0A9@3skel.com> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:32:06 -0400 From: Dan Janowski Organization: Triskelion Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Mark Conn CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makes you wonder... References: <199804181916.VAA14407@yedi.iaf.nl> <19980418213331.18062@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net> <199804190535.AAA23641@pentagon.io.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sometimes in life you can do a good thing and people will notice. (trite but true) Off topic... I have had some odd experiences with Dell hardware in the past. Last time it was with their on-board video hardware; said it was an ATI, but I couldn't get XFree86 to do better than 640x480. I ended up putting a Diamond Stealth in and disabling the on-board. Just a heads up and a general question that other's might have input on. (I am not on -hardware, but you may want to ping that list) Dan Christopher Mark Conn wrote: > Don Wilde writes: > > > We _are_ making a difference. InfoWorld is getting downright positive > > I'm kinda new to the free software world (I use GNU Emacs at work > and will install FreeBSD on my Dell PII when I buy it in a few weeks) > but a lot of the appeal of different OS's seems personality-driven, FreeBSD > types seem to like stability and tradition more, Linux types seem more > experimental, maybe? I think it's the combination of all of these personalities > that make the free software world so interesting, gives us so many choices. > > As has been said many times, we have to keep in mind who the real enemy is :-) > > Looking forward to having my own 'workstation' at home (will sure beat sending > mail on my current 'system', a WYSE terminal dialed in to my ISP)... -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message