From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 01:26:46 2005 Return-Path: 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 81EB616A4CE; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3578543D1D; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:26:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:26:39 -0600 Message-ID: <420D5AC3.3000202@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:24:19 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1108126229.4084.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <2fd864e05021106537bdcff09@mail.gmail.com> <1108146951.31338.10.camel@hatter.wonderland.dn> <1935025570.20050211232605@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1935025570.20050211232605@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2005 01:26:43.0437 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8F979D0:01C510A1] cc: frreebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:26:46 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Screenshots say _absolutely nothing_ about what an OS can do as a >server. And FreeBSD is not any more suitable for the desktop than Linux >(which is to say, it's hardly usable at all). > > Now, I've deleted all the context, but that's quite a generalization there in that second sentence. IIRC, this was the sort of thing that caused a few people to killfile your address a couple years back. Which was sad, because you bring a few plusses and a viable P.O.V. to the discussions that we all watch and/or participate in. I'm not trying to chastise nor start an argument; but you may want to be careful that in burning the thatch from the yard, you don't catch the forest on fire. Respectfully, Kevin Kinsey