From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 05:43:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFEC16A4C0 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658834404E for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [204.177.173.28]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h83Chgob091750; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:43:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F55E1FC.3010701@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 07:43:40 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Olander References: <20030902201040.A13576@knight.ixsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20030902201040.A13576@knight.ixsystems.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TechTV - FreeBSD v. Linux Shootout X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:43:59 -0000 Matt Olander wrote: [..snip..] > Murray, unless I'm mistaken, the linux guy must have fudged a bit at the > end of the install because after we'd finished, his screen still showed > like 35 minutes to go and then he immediately plugged in his laptop ;) Sadly enough, even my wife noticed that. We were both watching as the install was creeping by on the linux machine, and FreeBSD was completely done, ready to roll. They broke for commercial, and the next thing you know he is up and running full desktop. My wife said "aren't they still installing? I thought they still had a lot left?".. I had no response for her. I did notice how defensive the linux guy was.. must have had too much caffeine before the show or something.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------