From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 28 11:15:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7573014CFC for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.48]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA61CB for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:11:33 -0400 Message-ID: <37C825EA.2FDACA82@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:09:46 -0500 From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [es] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: es,en-US,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: I'm back Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi guys, I safely returned home after visiting the US. It was a great pleasure to meet Jerry Hicks there, and well yes...I admittedly almost got drunk with a single beer :-). I brought with me several second hand books, and an interesting SONY VAIO to play around with FreeBSD. If someone has found itīs way setting the weird parameters in those beasts I'm all ears: it's particularly disturbing to have to start the windows partition to shutdown the computer. I hadn't visited the US since quite some time, as an external visitor it was interesting to see that while linux is getting to be known, it is not as popular as slashdot would suggest, and my guess would be that it will not be ready to compete in the windows market for, at least, ten more years. FreeBSD is unknown right now, but admittedly we are not a replacement for Winblows either. All in all, the US is the land of opportunities, and many things can (and will) change. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message