From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 25 10:55:40 2003 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 5AD1B37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay-2.adobe.com (smtp-relay-2.adobe.com [192.150.11.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0EB843FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rolnif@mac.com) Received: from inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-1 [153.32.1.51]) by smtp-relay-2.adobe.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2PItZcO001983 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (mailsj-dev.corp.adobe.com [153.32.1.192]) by inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2PItUVf025301 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([153.32.129.125]) by mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 v1 Jul 11 2001 16:32:57) with ESMTP id HCBJ8H00.PPS; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:29 -0800 Message-ID: <3E80A621.3050806@mac.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:29 -0800 From: John Martinez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm References: <20030325104018.T60034@babelfish.pursued-with.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-15.6 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin Stevens wrote: ... > > I converted my server from Solaris 8 to FreeBSD last year (ob: FreeBSD > reference) *specifically* to improve mindshare with OS X. (I don't think > Darwin/x86 is far enough along for my comfort level). I do use Linux on > x86 laptops for the better hardware support. That's the main reason I converted some of my Solaris machines as well. It's amazing how well some FreeBSD apps port over to OS X directly from the source tree (ok, it takes a little tweaking). As far as laptops, I went and bought a 12" PowerBook to get me a better portable UNIX environment. ;-) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message