[aclug-L] Re: Lindows

["Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well that is a rather myopic view of the Open Source operating system 
world, now isn't it?  Now that you have made this statement, I am 
curious as to why you think that this seems counter productive.

When I joined this mailing list, it never said anything about "LINUX 
DISCUSSION" only.  In fact, here is what it currently says:

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Arnold, who works with/on Slackware all day while at work, but then goes 
home and plays with FreeBSD (and has since 1996).

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:11:47AM -0600, David Wiebe wrote:
> 
> Maybe I'm confused, but why is FreeBSD being discussed in a Linux list?  
> FreeBSD may have some great characteristics but to discuss it as if it is 
> just another linux distro seems counterproductive.
> 
> Dave W.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 14 November 2001 01:32, you wrote:
> > personally, FreeBSD is my favorite, since everything is (can be) compiled
> > from source, but it's still managed as packages (ie: if you want to remove
> > something, it's as simple as a 'pkg_delete
> > <pkg_name_installed_from_ports_source_tree>')...   BUT, since my
> > workstation is so pathetically slow (P200), running things in linux
> > compatability mode (ie: Netscape or Opera) makes my system even slower than
> > Windows XP! : ^ ) so, until i can get an upgrade, i've just been using
> > Mandrake, since it's easy to install/manage w/o having to compile things
> > from source... and i can run native linux apps... well, natively...
> >
> > also, i could never get Konqueror to recognize my Netscape plugins, which
> > really made browsing some of my favorite sites a real bore/chore...  if
> > anyone's gotten this to work in FreeBSD, i'd love to know how! : ^ )
> >
> > i think my server / firewall will remain FreeBSD...  i like how things are
> > managed...  and even on my old 486 things work (somewhat) well! : ^ )  tho'
> > i just inherited a P120 from a friend, so "maybe" that will help it out
> > some! : ^ )
> >
> > gLaNDix
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