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Date:      Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:28:44 -0700
From:      "Jeff Jensen" <jeffreyjensen1@cox.net>
To:        <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   FW: Why Should I switch to FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <000001c24c4c$196637b0$fd00a8c0@Jeff>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:grog@FreeBSD.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 6:29 PM
To: Jeff Jensen
Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org; kuriyama@FreeBSD.org; imp@FreeBSD.org;
markm@FreeBSD.org; wes@FreeBSD.org; murray@FreeBSD.org;
rwatson@FreeBSD.org; peter@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Why Should I switch to FreeBSD?

On Wednesday, 21 August 2002 at 21:49:31 -0700, Jeff Jensen wrote:
> Hello.  My name is Jeffrey Jensen.  I live in San Diego, California
and
> am currently 15 years of age.  I am extremely interested in computers,
> specifically UNIX and OpenGL Programming (specifically).  I was born
and
> raised in windows 3.1 and 95 however due to my extreme disappointment
> with the latest windows, Windows XP I decided to dual boot windows xp
> (for GL programming) and linux (mandrake 9.0 beta 2).  My question is,
> is there any real reason for me to switch from linux to BSD?  Is there
> much of a difference?  I have tried installing it before to no avail
> however I am much more confident in my UNIX skills now after using
linux
> a lot more lately.
>
> I am interested in contributing to FreeBSD as well.  However, I am not
> sure about the availability of 3d acceleration in freebsd.  I know
that
> is more of an xFree86 thing (which has experimental support) but is
> getting GL to work in FreeBSD the same as getting it to work in linux
> (which I could not do)?  Does FreeBSD offer GL libraries installed
right
> out of the box?
>
> Should I wait for FreeBSD 5.0 before I switch?  Will there be much of
a
> difference with 5.0?
>
> Thank you so much and please respond I would really appreciate it.
You
> guys rock.

Thanks for the message, Jeff.  You appear to have chosen us because
we're all the members of the FreeBSD Core team, which is an
administrative body.

You should address your questions to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org.
See http://www.FreeBSD.org/ for more information, including how to
subscribe to the questions list.

Greg
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