Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:36:36 -0600 From: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> To: walter@pelissero.org Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is distribution sinking? Message-ID: <3AFFED74.A2EDE0C1@Silver-Lynx.com> References: <200105141406.PAA08601@pelissero.org>
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> Actually, the problems arised one day when I received a letter stating > that Walnut Creek had problems with my credit card and they where > expecting the payment of the last shippment (items I never received). > I had the same problem. They said my CC was declined, but I never got a message saying so. The girl who replied to my query was _rather_ curt as well. They never said I owed them for a non-existent shipment, but I never was alerted to their supposed problems with my CC. I gave them another CC to use, just in case, but nothing happened again until I queried, and I got the same somewhat-obnoxious sort of reply that my CC had been declined. Now, the card I gave them the second time could have been used to buy a battleship on credit, okay? In other words, pure bs. [snip] > > Recently I tried to buy a 4.3 distribution from a local store (London, > UK) and while they had all the releases up to 4.1 they told me they > had problems with the last one. They suspect this is due to the > recent take over of BSDi (once again). > > I don't know if FreeBSD is distributed by anyone else but WC/BSDi. My > impression is that currently the FreeBSD distribution is slowly > sinking. > We here in the States can buy Complete FreeBSD+CD packages from Barnes and Noble, and LIC they had current stock. > In the meanwhile it turns up that NetBSD and OpenBSD CD distributions > are more easily available than FreeBSD so I see myself forced to > switch to one of them. > I concur that there have been distribution problems, but that's not a good basis on which to choose your operating system. If you choose your OS due to the availability of CDs, might I suggest that you also look at a wonderfully-well packaged product from a company called Microsoft? It's available everywhere, and millions of people all over the world think it's the greatest thing since the invention of the Big Mac. ;-) Seriously, Net and Open are both good products. They each have their strong points and their weaknesses. Nobody is "forcing" you to switch, and nobody is going to cry if you do. I personally think both the cross-fertilization and the "competition" between the BSD camps is a Good Thing. <PLUG>Please visit http://www.daemonnews.org for abundant evidence and commentary on all sides of this issue. </PLUG> -- Don Wilde http://www.Silver-Lynx.com Silver Lynx Embedded Microsystems Architects 2218 Southern Bl. Ste. 12 Rio Rancho, NM 87124 505-891-4175 FAX 891-4185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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