Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:23:16 -0700 From: "Hamell, Rick (SPARQ)" <Rick.Hamell@sparqtraining.com> To: Vance Siemens <vance.siemens@gmail.com> Cc: =?utf-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... Message-ID: <E8857320-FF77-4AB0-A309-4EEB7E9F2D97@sparqtraining.com> In-Reply-To: <CADT2zBuWFMg5WxsY=dUcQpfAKu%2BNRxH_g_0iEuNTTfkjeRhwig@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADT2zBt=EpJvRRuXwVfobusnWr=DnS%2BCg4%2BFqe=ExzEvteHnOg@mail.gmail.com> <4FA2434F.1020802@unsane.co.uk> <864nrxh5zf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <CADT2zBv651OzWK_t%2B17tKvzD5BRkwuvYqfz8HCr5=uiXyydMEw@mail.gmail.com> <868vgsv0ga.fsf@ds4.des.no> <CADT2zBuWFMg5WxsY=dUcQpfAKu%2BNRxH_g_0iEuNTTfkjeRhwig@mail.gmail.com>
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What, 8bit color ANSI isn't GUI enough? But seriously, it feels like it works even worse then it did a decade ago. Rick Hamell Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2012, at 4:20 PM, "Vance Siemens" <vance.siemens@gmail.com> wrote: > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from > the App Store and having the installer "just work" in a modern GUI. > You have to admit, FreeBSD is lacking in this area. It would be a > boon. > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: >> Vance Siemens <vance.siemens@gmail.com> writes: >>> Can you share a brief overview of what's wrong with it? >> >> Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. FreeBSD >> never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from >> scratch". Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. No Mac OS X or >> Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Mac OS X will never >> merge. FreeBSD was never acquired by WinDriver Systems or by anyone >> else, although a company named WindRiver Systems (makers of the embedded >> operating system VxWorks, not of Windows video drivers) did at one point >> acquire BSDI, which had previously acquired Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which >> was heavily involved in the early history of both FreeBSD and Slackware >> Linux. The remains of Walnut Creek CD-ROM and BSDI are now known as >> FreeBSD Mall and iXsystems (of PC-BSD and FreeNAS fame). >> >> DES >> -- >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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