From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 19 02:07:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F74C106568B for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:07:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4B88FC14 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so1612212ywh.7 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:07:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mE9uSppIJaNYTr3pTe3/p/T0pg+FnjqH6ja2GPihDWo=; b=Sj+J0RZtFASrZdFYBN4XrUCChV363n5gUaMZb7FBw6sqFd9b8/flAb8IugbTbQRdMc YyvqaAsLvGdMnTGoSPsSgCNtmn2kMzDNhkE4eUaIsXbFTFs6yLnrMjsR2wJbfnuKYBJ1 RBkhObNabbMkJ6JQx5Td8aVTzMzevOaD7CCpo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Zl/BawxdtCEsVzASfVjNWUdHBbXu16svQM7GeVySlDultNbNzbpsIaS3fU9oFiK9hy K7ULPvEag+Jc87GbSsqlcVTPSnS0tPzzSjNw4gNgRVxvvkaTqvteKGxLujUxB7f4+vE6 J8+K9Q0N52HQ5HLYoEIW+NBNPfwq21jbPotSw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.48.18 with SMTP id v18mr674894ybv.103.1266543880659; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:44:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100219013952.GB60258@comcast.net> References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> <87zl36etg6.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100219013952.GB60258@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:44:40 -0800 Message-ID: <57d710001002181744td04d3b7m4d50fece3cb29bc0@mail.gmail.com> From: pete wright To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:07:26 -0000 On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Charlie Kester wro= te: > On Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 02:20:25 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:32 -0800, Charlie Kester >> wrote: >>> >>> http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ >>> >>> "PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that's in a position to >>> compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..." >>> >>> >> >> This is a pretty realistic way to put it, IMO. =A0Note that, to PC-BSD's >> credit, it is compares with the *best* Linux distributions. =A0That's a >> nice way of saying how cool PC-BSD is :-) > > Not taking anything away from PC-BSD, but the way the article put it, it > sounded like a slam on FreeBSD (and OpenBSD and NetBSD too). > hrm I took that as an indication of the good foundation that FreeBSD has laid for pc-bsd. The only thing that irked me was that they used the phrase "BSD-base distribution". *BSD is an OS, not a kernel with a bunch of stuff bolted on to it - heh. -pete --=20 pete wright www.nycbug.org