Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:48:23 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <walter@pelissero.org>, "Don Wilde" <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: is distribution sinking? Message-ID: <003401c0dce9$82292880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15103.63012.350812.154664@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>
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Hi Walter, C'mon, your living in the largest city in the world, there must be at least one or two other FreeBSD users that you could form a user group with, or at least who would be happy to burn you off a copy of the CD. While there's a lot of advantages to a world-wide mailing list like freebsd-chat, there's also some advantages of a smaller, local mailing list/user group too. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Walter C. >Pelissero >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:14 AM >To: Don Wilde >Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: is distribution sinking? > > >Don Wilde writes: > > I concur that there have been distribution problems, but that's not > > a good basis on which to choose your operating system. If you > > choose your OS due to the availability of CDs, might I suggest that > > you also look at a wonderfully-well packaged product from a company > > called Microsoft? It's available everywhere, and millions of > > people all over the world think it's the greatest thing since the > > invention of the Big Mac. ;-) > >I might have been misunderstood. With my statement I didn't want to >say that FreeBSD is a bad OS because not well distributed elswere than >within the US. As I said it's not a technical issue that made me >think about switching OS, but simply the unavailability in the place I >happen to live (London). This doesn't involve any opinion on the >quality of the OS itself. > >Regarding the choice. Well, it seems to me that I can't choose a >Porsche if I don't have the money to buy one, even if I belive it's >the best car in the world. Likewise I can't choose an OS that is not >available. Therefore, even if the basis of my choice is technical, I >have to face practical reality to have it realized, or I just keep on >wishfully thinking. > >Downloading the CDROM images is unfortunately not an option for me. I >belive it's the same for the majority of the distribution subscribers, >or there would be no point in buying the CDs in the first place. > >-- >walter pelissero >http://www.pelissero.org > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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