From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 13:51:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D2A106568D for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:51:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: from web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1250E8FC13 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 32427 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Nov 2008 13:51:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=nTXoPmLJeNJZeEkzpsOy9dfMCREl5+5sDokJ/bM0vnrUNbFXnIMAEQS0NISXKmuvpsvsmViBkvXc+UlH/C6Mr5nPa8Orim6s9OXJziQ4fci/ish3w0Wk03oSu0r5/TTwzT1DcvXSQ/kJ41EfSZ2uI45L/27S9RMN8K2d0omkRzc=; X-YMail-OSG: Fyg_Fz4VM1mZxw1oBtqo_8zfOEAR841Bxe_gER4aYW_SofKWkWLrnsEZqvqIfr0sABeqHdLoyERJFdyTYsAmaQpri53EgRv4D_hOfFew38fQf6SKR6ZtucU3tO80aW9N3eeQMF2wSvfNfbrtfBvPDabxgCnwf.eLwOdYpkjO4J__vOLRGgSklRRpag-- Received: from [76.23.177.172] by web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:51:49 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.32 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 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> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:51:49 -0800 (PST) From: GESBBB To: FreeBSD Users Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <380405.32405.qm@web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:42:34 +0000 Subject: Re: changing from vista X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:51:50 -0000 > From: Bruce Cran =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