From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 15:33:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F35D16A428 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 15:33:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDBB43D73 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 15:33:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so575466wxc for ; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:33:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=A+2he1sH5mXpBGewfxvpF7APDyuTgva/Xbo24jzDdUuSN1BGUI84h5EqoqCWB8yQ8zLYQQlZDubyd0IFSf4wKnhwREhaS76NDaTyS60W5kCQX6JbruJO+pGYIbrSK+vFJ4POYQ8ROCbiIlSaI5cSaJg5wlmusoUMJ4EcRAibNC4= Received: by 10.70.67.19 with SMTP id p19mr57865wxa; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:33:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.74.14 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:33:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20604010733p7345e34dncf22a30d504e52d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 10:33:09 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060401152353.GS12075@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060401152353.GS12075@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Subject: Re: freebsd rocks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:33:13 -0000 I'd like to second this. Oh, and it's not just the network drivers, just about everything. And BSD has man, info, and html help too, but I actually like that. BSD just throws so much help in your face, in such better quality, it's nice. I got so much done with 1/10th the questions I would have needed in linux. And, I'm not a serious *nix administrator, just someone who has to administrat *nix on his own machine at work. Sadly they gave me strange looks when I thought of giving it BSD instead of Fedora... Thank you contributors, friendly and community oriented people of this mailing list, and all others related to making this an exceptionally useful operating system. -Jim On 4/1/06, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > People, > > I've been using Linux for some time, and decided to try out FreeBSD on my= home > server. I would like to thank all contributors for the quality of the pro= duct, > and the community. My questions have always been answered helpfully. Out = of > the box, the server reports its health to me regularly and those reports = are > easy to extend. For a Unix hacker like myself, the environment is wonderf= ul, > and easy to maintain. > > I'm not pleased with the direction that much of Linux is taking. Daemons > managing files traditionally managed by people. Help stored in man, info,= html > and God knows what else. I could go on but I'm sure you know well already= . > > On FreeBSD, my NIC driver has a manpage. Astonishing, and helpful. Not > everything is a dream, but the community is helping make me comfortable. = This > is what Unix felt like when I first touched it. > > Kudos. > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It > takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite > direction." --Albert Einstein > > >