From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 27 01:09:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27554 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27545 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA19090 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:08:23 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807270808.UAA19090@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:08:49 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What tipped the balance Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <19980727101736.63991@welearn.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 Jul 98, at 10:17, Sue Blake wrote: > Someone asked me in private mail why I chose FreeBSD instead of another > OS, and I thought it might make an interesting topic. This is not about > the benefits of FreeBSD versus something else, it's about what affected us > personally when we made the decision. For me, it was the recommendation of someone else that used FreeBSD already. He gave me a box with the OS already installed. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message