Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...
Diane Bruce <[email protected]>
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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:42:12PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > Jamie wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:20:18PM -0400, Vance Siemens wrote: > > > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from ... > Well, I worked for a computer science dept. for 30years and it seemed > to go something like this: > - Undergrad installs "toy" version of Linux on their desktop/laptop, > likes it and promotes it to their friends. > - When these students graduate, they put Linux/Unix experience on their > resume and get hired by a company with no Unix-like systems expertise. > --> They set up Linux servers for said company. > > If the same was happening for xxBSD, then they would list that as well as > Linux and they would at least be aware that both existed. I don't believe > FreeBSD needs to try and do the easy to install GUI distro, but they could > reference the xxBSD distros that do try to do this. (Yea, I know someone > didn't like using the term distro for xxBSD distributions, but...) And when I do get people to look at PCBSD since it looks so spiffy, they download an ISO only to have it not boot. It's incredibly frustrating. > > rick - Diane -- - [email protected] [email protected] http://www.db.net/~db Why leave money to our children if we don't leave them the Earth? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"