From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 18:07:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113F516A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:07:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5D543D39 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:07:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lute@vfemail.net) Received: (qmail 59701 invoked by uid 85); 3 Feb 2005 18:07:32 -0000 Received: from lute@vfemail.net by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.258345 secs); 03 Feb 2005 18:07:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO agnes.myhome.net) (lute@vfemail.net@63.229.187.130) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with SMTP; 3 Feb 2005 18:07:31 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:07:31 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050203120731.2b1f3868@agnes.myhome.net> In-Reply-To: <002101c5074c$7862ffb0$0301a8c0@creativity> References: <20050130120113.6619D16A4D8@hub.freebsd.org> <002101c5074c$7862ffb0$0301a8c0@creativity> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Leaving FreeBSD for Linux - Please Don't Hurt Me X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:07:35 -0000 Well don't feel too bad Mick, I am going to be leaving FreeBSD also but for other reasons. I have some toys now that need USB support that FreeBSD just isn't doing for me, and being that I am not a coder, just a user I will be switching to Linux in hope that I will have greater success with them. Don't get me wrong I have really loved using FreeBSD over the last 3 years, it's all I have had on my box, but have been getting discouraged since the upgrade(?) to 5.3. It's mostly little thing that have been piling up, console screen saver doesn't work, ports that I use are broken all the time, things like that. Then after searching through every piece of documentation I can find, I ask on a list or IRC channel to either total silence or the common "It's because you are stupid!" reply. Well folks I don't need that anymore. I have decided on a distro, and will be installing over the weekend. Not over FreeBSD, this drive will be removed and lovingly tucked away all files intact. I really do wish I could get it to meet the demands I have now. I will still be lurking, and if FBSD evolves to where it will handle my needs in the future I will be back in a flash, but for now..... -- Lute It's OK to be different FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE