From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 23 13: 3:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.sci.fi (ds9.sci.fi [195.74.0.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FF037BA8D for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from juksi@iname.com) Received: from sjukebox (MMMCMXVI.hdyn.saunalahti.fi [195.197.165.16]) by ds9.sci.fi (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA00170; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:03:18 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <38DA60EB.F9D65AB0@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:02:44 +0200 (EET) From: Jukka Simila To: David Johnson Subject: Re: Compliments on a good job. Cc: FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23-Mar-00 David Johnson wrote: > Jukka Simila wrote: > >> FWIW: I started using FBSD when it was at 2.2.5, now I'm using 3.4. I made >> my >> big brother also use FreeBSD, but since they used Linux at his school, he >> switched to that. I've never seen such big problems with FreeBSD that he had >> with linux: It took 3 months to get his soundcard working, and his login >> prompt still acts very weird. Well, not exactly my problem, I've told him >> that I can help him if he switches to FreeBSD, so I would know the >> environment, but... > > I wonder if his problems aren't so much Linux as they are some crappy > distribution. All too many of them decide that the "classic" linux isn't > good enough, so they do stuff their own way. I include RedHat, Suse and > Debian in the aforementioned distros. I believe it's about a crappy distribution. However, they call it linux, so I call it linux. It's their problem (or those' who make the good distributions:) @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message