From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 23:09:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9CC1065678 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-137.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-137.bluehost.com [67.222.39.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34D8C8FC18 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 2673 invoked by uid 0); 15 Dec 2008 23:09:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2008 23:09:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=nEfjdZQnBxwXGkxZ+5GkA233R65Es3yxYpXVafLYt+pUFgV0MdJZo7xYgu/YPPM8lXQeI3u2eLeDTdqpvxCeqroY6Se2e1A669W4sjCgPLIb9bjY2r9f7cIxYmocr/kF; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LCMYg-0004iS-9f for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:02 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:33 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:33 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081215230833.GA61220@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211203121.L1372@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211195504.GA15968@kokopelli.hydra> <200812111447.15299.perlcat@alltel.net> <1229218767.18610.39.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081215022131.GB5527@kokopelli.hydra> <1229336056.1647.23.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081215201201.GA60187@kokopelli.hydra> <20081215231150.B56482@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081215231150.B56482@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:02 -0000 --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:13:38PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >So, we end up splitting the potential FreeBSD users between Ubuntu and > >Fedora with more of them going to Ubuntu because not quite as many become >=20 > very nice. after trying FreeBSD they WILL get back to linux (and then=20 > windows) quickly. >=20 > Those who REALLY know they need something different, like high=20 > performance good plain unix, will move to FreeBSD sooner or later :) Uh -- what? We weren't talking about people who've tried FreeBSD first. We were talking about people who asked about FreeBSD and were told to f-off to Linux instead by people like you. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Principle of Inclusion: The strength of any system is directly proportional to the power of the tools it provides for the general public. --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklG43EACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXbJgCg7uN4xWiIKJ0jV28uCdFIjfIl ezQAoIybR949/nCgCJ41VBvQJBBG7onO =rDBG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--