From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 20:55:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3638514C0B for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29285; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:11:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "2000" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdu29283; Tue Aug 24 14:11:06 1999 Message-ID: <031a01beede5$901791b0$817e03cb@2000> From: "Doug Young" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_L=E1zaro?= Cc: References: <37C21247.E28EA8E8@encomix.es> Subject: Re: Convince me, please... Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:03:01 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well from the view of another newbie, I gave up messing with various linuxes after months of utter frustration with the totally unintelligible verbiage that passes for documentation in that world ..... BSD stuff is still way beyond me but at least there are a few things I can comprehend and unlike most linuxes I have tried to figure out, there does seem to be an attempt by experts here to help newbies. The mere mention of "commercial" operating systems in the linux mailing lists will start a religious war to rival anything the world has seen .... but at least many of the inhabitants here seem to be significantly more open minded .... after all, its a matter of "horses for courses" and what suits one user is not necessarily the ideal solution for another. Another issue that convinced me to change to BSD was the need in linux to r re-compile the kernel every time I wanted to enable some function like routing or SMP or whatever ..... whereas it seems most of that stuff is already enabled in proper unixes like BSD, Solaris et al. I personally still can't see BSD being usable in regular office workstation situations generally until someone comes up with a good GUI interface (and I don't mean amateur level stuff like KDE that locks up solid periodically) ----- Original Message ----- From: David Lázaro To: Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:32 PM Subject: Convince me, please... > I have been using Linux 4 years now (exactly 4, this days would be the > aniversary) but I feel something about BSD. Maybe that cute daemon is > trying to convince me... :) > > I am very slow at taking decissions so, please, if you want send me some > mail messages that obligate me to change. > > I must say that you can abuse of tech/hacker (in the good sense, heh?) > language, I would appreciate technical reasons more than the mere > ennuciation that the Linux penguin sucks (which is certainly true, IMHO) > and that the daemon is sooooooo cute (it must be the daemon :) nice > propaganda, boys!). > > The reason of all this is because I am getting tired of the Linux > constant state of change... They do very hard core changes too often. > > As a side note: Any pointers for Laptop support? > > Cheers > -- > David Lázaro Saz > E-mail: khelekir@encomix.es > GSM messaging e-mail: 696867731@correo.movistar.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message