Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:51:49 -0800 (PST) From: GESBBB <gesbbb@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: changing from vista Message-ID: <380405.32405.qm@web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <491D59D3.8080809@spansurf.com> <20081114203914.W14337@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <491DDD56.1040001@ccstores.com> <20081114225626.GA56663@icarus.home.lan> <20081116193828.GB7878@comcast.net> <20081116222222.J26735@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117053502.7cc3827c@tau.draftnet>
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> From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>=0A> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 = 8:35:02 AM=0A=0A> Could you point out some of those strange-but-trendy feat= ures?=A0 I tried=0A> Ubuntu for a while on my laptop and it more or less Ju= st Works.=A0 It=0A> boots up quickly, detects all my devices, has accelerat= ed 3D etc.=0A> Now I did move back to FreeBSD because I had problems with i= ts=0A> autodetection system - in particular the graphics card wasn't=0A> co= nfigured properly. But that's a problem with Ubuntu specifically, and=0A> I= could just as easily have switched to Debian or Gentoo where more=0A> manu= al configuration is required - just like in FreeBSD.=A0 One of the=0A> stre= ngths of Linux is that if you find one of the new trendy features=0A> doesn= 't work, you can generally just build a new kernel - without=0A> including = it. =0A=0AUnfortunately, the inability to be able to include the feature / = improvement is also a negative factor.=0A=0A> If it's user-space you don't = like - well, that's a=0A> problem with the distribution, not linux itself.= =0A=0A-- =0AJerry=0Agesbbb@yahoo.com
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