From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 25 8:36:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19b.rapidsite.net (mail19b.rapidsite.net [161.58.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6622937B406 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 08:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19b.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 031242637 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 11:42:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CEFAEF3.334A666E@pythonemproject.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 08:34:12 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> <20020525023620.GA11854@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-05-24 16:31, rob wrote: > > What impresses me the most about FreeBSD are the people involved. > > I've been trying out some Linux distos but I always get turned off > > by the mailing lists. That was not true 5 years ago when I was > > running SuSE. > > > Now, I've gotten a "haircut" on the OpenBSD list from Theo, but for good > > reasons :) I just find the Linux lists arrogant. Rob. > > Amazingly enough, this seems to be one of the essential first steps > towards abandoning Linux for BSD. Theo, it would seem, has a > particularly potent charm that gets more people in the BSD world. > > Which is cool :) > > - Giorgos Yes, I really like OpenBSD but no more room on my laptop. I bit the bullet and installed -current by cvsup from 4.5-Release. So I now have -stable slice and -current slice. I figured I can at least test and send in bug reports on my Viao FX-290. So far, the only major bug it that it won't recognize my cdrw. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message